The I.S. has asked all Fourth Internationalists to make as widely known as possible the following appeal by tho Committoe of Solidarity with all victims of Repression of the Algerian War, The committee organises and co-ordinates all aid for Algerians who are imprisoned on an international and national scale. The appeal roadss "The Algepian prisoners have recentiy fought o hard battle lasting 21 days, 21 days of hunger strike, 21 days durinf which they did not hesitate to risk their lives to achieve their domands and to obtain recgnitiion of their status as political prisoners, "Among other things, they have won tho right to receive four parcels per years at Christmas, at the end of Ramadin, at ijaster and on July 14th. "\ parcel of 5 kilos (11 lbs) costs about 30 new Franch frances (2 guines) We want to send these four parcels to each prisoner. We would like to send parcels to the Algerians kept in "camps de reproupnygnt" in France and in Algeria. "To meet these new nocds we rely once more on your sympathy. Please sond your gifts (money oxclusively) to : Me. ilbott Roux 30, rue Lecourbe, Paris 15 eme. The appeal is signed by the president Laurent Schwartz, who comrades will remomber as a witness for Pablo and Santen at their trial. Among other members of the committee are Simone do Beauvoir, Jean Paul Sartre, irthur iidamov, Claude Tourdet, Michel Leiris, Maurice Nadeau, Vercors, and Pierre Vidal Naquet. Schwarz and Roux have beth been the victimg of plastic bomb attacks by the OS, ITALY — OUR COMRADES ADDRIISS ITALIAN SOCE.LIST YOUTH CONGRG3S A delegation of the G. C.it., Italian section of the Fourth Internat-— ional attonded the recent Congress of the Italian Socialist (Nenni) Youth. One of the comrades addressed the Congress in the name o. the G.C.ik.. L'Avanti, papor of the Italian Socialist Party roported the speoch. UeSele — e.P. OFFERS HELP TO COMMUNIST PARTY AGAINST GOVERNMENT .tEPRESSION The Socialist Workers Party of the ents States has sent a letter
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to the leadership of the U.S Commnist Party offer help in its campaign against the recent Government action against that party.
£ ‘ c poem by Yevgeni Yevtushenko in reply to criticism of him by the Soviet ess. This text is reproduced from the Guardian having been translated from iy Polish as it appeared in the Warsaw journal "Polityka"
They tell mez: "You have courage, man." But it is not truc. I have never had an excess of courage. I have simply thought it indecent To have to sink To the cowardice of my colleagues. I did not try to shake the world to its foundations, I wrote. So what..elI did not write c -nunciations,. What was puffed up stung me to laughter. I ridiculed what was false. I tried, quite loudly, to say what I thought.
Some time, posterity will romember
(And shame will burn; When vileness and bluff have been destroyed) This very curious time. These curious times When The most ordinary decency was called "courage."