French socialist arrested in Poland
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financed by the AFL-CIO along with the US government and by a whole range of major US corporations including Coca Cola, Anaconda (nationalised by the Allende government), ITT, United Fruit Company and many others.
The President of the Trustees of AIFLD is Peter Grace, head of the W.R. Grace Company which has extensive interests in Latin America (especially in Peru and Chile).
The Chile boycott has reportedly been approved by Carter and his main advisers.
Why then have these bosses in workers' clothing instituted a boycott of Chilean goods?
One reason is that Pinochet is not only repressing the authentic unions of the working class (which the AFL-CIO conspired to destroy before 1973) but he also refuses to recognise even the kind of yellow "unions" which the AFL-CIO and ORIT have consistently sponsored.
Without the freedom to The 'est in Gedansk, 6 December of Philippe Ries from the Informations Ouvrieres has aroused an enormous protest campaign in France and internationally.
M. Ries, whose paper is associated with the French 'Trotskyist' OCI, is an accredited journalist who met members of an opposition group known as the Social Self Defence Committee, like many other Western correspondents.
His wife was also briefly held and his lawyer, ac cording to the latest reports, has not yet been allowed to see him.
'Defamation'
After his arrest the authorities originally said he was 'suspected of espionage' '. Since then they have said that he will be charged with 'defamation of the Polish state'. The local prosecutor has also let it be known that he may get 'provisional liberty' for 20,000 dollars bail.
These gradual retreats of the embassy in Paris on 14 December, and the support of amongst many others, the General Secretary of the French teachers' union, CP philosopher Louis Althuser and CP Assembly member Boulay.
It has now gone as far as protests from the foreign ministery.
On 13 December the Self-Defence Committee held a press conference about other arrests.
Kas Switon leader of an independent trade union, faces eight years, Gajyillo, a sailor, faces a long sentence for distributing 'forbidden documents' and Koslowsky, who set up a stration, said to be as large as 4,000, to celebrate the eighth anniversary of the great strike movement and to remember the dead of those days.
Internationale
Speakers included a member of the strike committee of 1970, Zoloch, and two others.
The Polish national anthem, the Internationale and various revolutionary songs were sung. Some arrests were made, though not of the platform speakers.