AROUND THE WORLD
Cops trap themselves IN THE latter September, the Greek minister announced on TV with great fanfare the arrest of three persons suspected of belonging to a terrorist network.
to the government, these arrests were to lead to the disman-
"terrorist" operating in Greece today.
It was only 48 hours before a out. The police services in the Athens region had in fact arrested a vulgar tout and provocateur in the hire of the Greek secret services (the KYP), a certain Krystalis, who admitted his real role. Arrested at the same time were two old classmates of his, Tsitsilianos and Behrakis. The latter two claimed that they had nothing to do with the offenses charged against them and no. relations other than having remained on friendly terms with him has had quite a checkered belonged to several left organizations. For a certain time, he even managed to become general secretary of the organization of [the Union of the Democratic Left] -the party of Manolos Glozos, a hero resistance against the Nazi occupation, who has been elected to parliament on the slate of Andreas Papandreou's PASOK party. After that Krystalis became a TV reporter. During all this time, in fact, he was an different intelligence services.
For a week, the press kept bringing out more and more the real dimensions of this - bombings perpetrated by the secret police, competition among the various secret services, of journalists and left group by the police. In a nutshell, reports showed in a striking way that the government, it may claim, has not managed to get police seraffair will certainly lead to new scandals because revelations illustrating the way the police operate.
Krystalis' codefendent, Tsitsilianos, belonged to the editorial board of the
("Marxist Regroupment"), in which there are also activists who declare their sympathy for the Fourth Interis accused "Inciting to violence," a charge for which a letter found at his home is offered as evidence. an anonymous one sent to Marxistike Sispirosi in response to articles on the question of individual terrorism. The editorial board of magazine considered this letter infantile of interest refused to publish it.
Tsitsilianos is also charged perpetrated in at a time when he was on an island
The third person arrested, Behrakis,
"participating in the creation of a gang," on the sole that four refill for a camping stove were found in his
So, the government of the PanHellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) has become implicated now itself in sinister cases of police provocation in which no one can say where the deception ends and the truth begins, whose gain and for reasons such operations have
It is not surprising that the PASOK has today become so deeply mired in this kind of sordid affair, because it has adopted the institutions left to it by the right. It has made itself the prisoner of these institutions and the same way as the French Socialist Party has, that is, without any scruples
It is therefore necessary and urgent to launch a broad campaign to demand the immediate release of Tsitsilianos
At the same time, it is necessary to campaign for the dissolution pure and simple of secret services, which divert important sums from the state budget and have no funciton but to spy on the workers movement and mount provocations [From Greek revolutionary Marxists O Gillick defeated LAST WEEK a decision in the House of Lords overturned an Appeal Court judgement in favour of Victoria
Gillick's campaign had been the latest in a series of attacks on women coming from the right, and like being when it culminated in the favourable appeal court ruling last December.
After that ruling it became illegal for doctors to give any contraception or abortion to young women under 16 without the consent number of under 16s attending family planning clinics fell dramatically, and the number forced to go through of unwanted pregnancy the trauma rose correspondingly. All this, Gilick was done to week's law lords however, had the immediate practical of restoring the situation to the pre-Gillick' the ruling goes further in that it at least begins to recognise the rights of young pople to make decisions who are not for being the most vehement supporters of womens rights had clearly noticed the strength of feeling against Gillick, from although the press often neglected to i ention it) from women themselves. A concerted campaign, including a national demonstration, had shown reject 'Victoria's values'. Anti apartheid demonstration AN ESTIMATED 100 thousand demonstrators marched through the streets of London on Saturday November 2 to denounce apartheid in South Africa sanctions against the Pretoria govern-
This will be seen as a big blow to the policy government, which has refused sanctions till now.
The demonstrators were addressed the Reverend former presidential candidate in the United States and Oliver Tambo, leader of the African National Congress.
The demonstration was marked by the presence of newly formed local anti-apartheid organisations and other
In particular members of the Broad Water Farm defence comof the recent riots in Tottenham, London were present. The people there were eager to make people of the South African ghettoes.
the march was heavy, especially near broke out and an alarming 140 people