MESSAGE TO BRITISH MERTING "SALUTE CHE GUEVARA" from Ken Coates The following message was sent to the meeting of solidarity with O.L.A.S., organised by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation on July 28, by Ken Coates: Warmest greetings to the meeting of British friends of the Latin American Revolution, assembled to salute Che Guevara and to welcome the conference of the Organisation for Latin American Solidarity, in Havana. As a participant in their Conference, representing the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, I would like to be able to tell our Latin American comrades that our London meeting will mark the beginning of a strenuous and active continuing campaign, to tell the truth about the United States role in the Southern continent, to describe the brutalities of the oligarchies, to arouse nationwide support. for the victims of their oppression, and to campaign for solidarity with the martyrs and heroes of the liberation struggle. Names of the dead and the living: Fabricio Ojeda, Hugo Blanco, Lobaton, Yon Sosa: these names bring the ring of proud defiance, extraordinary self-sacrifice, intelligence and dedication, resounding again, back into the mainstream of the world-wide struggle for socialism. Over them all towers the living legend, the giant example of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, No Englishman who has any feeling at all, either for the sufferings of the poor people of the world, or for the force of heroic example, can fail to be stirred by the epic struggle which is now unwinding in South America, The British Labour Movement is, sadly, very belatedly, but with real anger and shock, beginning to respond to the call of the people of Vietnam, martyred in a blaze of napalm and imperialist frenzy. :
The WeekThe Week Vol. 8, No. 5, 2 August 1967
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