ONE DAY THE SOVIET WORKING CLASS WELL BRING ALL THESE BLREAUCRATS TO TRIAL FOR CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE The death sentences meted out to Dymshits and Kuznetsor, together with monstrous prison sentences on other Jews, to be served in forced labour camps that supposedly disappeared along with Stalin himself, show up before all the world the repressive nature of the criminal bureaucracy ruling in the Soviet Union.
The trials were held in total secrecy. No Bute are to face the firmitead for the crit.
are to face the firing squad for the "crime" of wishing to leave one country for another, Even if the charges of hi-jacking a Soviet aircraft were true, which is more than doubtful, they serve only to indicate the desperation to which Stalinism reduces its subjects. It is above all the retention of bureaucratic power by naked police violence that is on triat in Leningrad refore the international working class. What makes this farce doubly unfortunate is that it: enables the assassin Franco to get away with murder and allows the bourgeoisie once more to say: "Well, things may be had in Spain, but they he worse in Leningrud and Glansk."
Encreasing Opposition in the USSR The new trials vividly Blustrate the insoluble crisis of the regime, faced by growing internal opposition. Haunted by the strikes and street demonstrations that shook Poland in December The Red Male 1-15 Jan. 1971 Pago 2 and dealt yet another blow to the Stalinist monolith, the bureaucracy diverts the accumulating resentment and popular discontent by staging anti-semitic show trials. Just as in Warsaw in 1968, increasing rebellion is to be safely channelled into a campaign aguinst the Jewish minority, under the pretext of anti-Zionism".
The Kremlin's Apologists The Communist Party leaderships in the West, just as when faced with the Polish risings, hasten to preserve their liberal reputations and cement their alliance with socinl democracy. Rapid denunciations of the verdicts as "excesses" and expressions of "grave concern" are mixed with approval of firm measures for the defence of the "socialist states" and admissions of the guilt of the accused. "While dissociating ourselves from the unti-Soviet campaign... and in no way condoning crimes of the type of which the defendants were accused, we bellere the court proceedings should have been public" (CPGR statement, Morning Star, December 28th). Torn between the British/French/Italian Parliamentary "Roads to Socialism", and their loyalty to Moscow, they wriggle, uncomfortably embarrassed by the "errors" of their Eastern comrades which shatter their democratic pretensions.
Fodder for the Zionists More than anything, the trials provide longedfor ammunition for the Zionist propagandists. Anxious to secure the maximum emigration of Jews from the LISSR is from elsewhere, in order to popusate new settiements in the occupier trab territories, the Israeli government i mounting a massive and unprecedented propuganda campaign highlighting the persecution of Jews by the Soviet bureaucracy. Mass demonstrations, called by Zionist organisations in many bnds, demand the "return" of Russian Jews to the Zionist "homeland", in a wave of hysterical, anti-communist emotion. The oppression of national minorities in the Soviet Union becomes a handy pretext for the reinforcement of Israeli conquests in the Middle Fast. These mobilisations, supposedly in solidarity with Russian Jewry, equate the USSR with Nazi Germany (Hitler-Kosygin" "USSR, S.S.") Israel. and invariably incorporate Israeli nationalism Patriotic Hebrew anthems and appeals to "Let My People Go"" take the place of support for the civil rights mosement struggling against bureaucratic dictatorship in the Soviet Union, Struggie for Equal Rights Revolutionary socialists cannot and will not remain silent whilst Stalinism victimises innocent Jews, and Zionist nationalism benefits from the crime, To the Stalinists, we repeatonce more, you drug the name of socialism in the gutter, invoking memories of the Moscow Trials and the vicious "Doctors" Plot" witch bunt. Today, however, a growing revolutionary movement challenges your stranglehold on the working class and exposes your shameful reso to antisemitism. Yois, above all, strengthen Jewish nationalism in the West, in Isracl and inside the USSR, fifty years after the October Revolution. To the Zionists, we say-your selective "humanitariunism" recognises only the freedom of movement of Soviet Jews and not that of the dispossessed Palestinian Arabs. Unlike you, we will continue to combat all rucist and national oppression, all forms of discrimination dividing the working class, whether in Spain or South Africa, Russia or Stalinism, not communism, is on trial in Leningrad!
Smash Stalinist anti-semitism in Russia. Poland and Czechosio rakia!
Long live proletarian internationalism/