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AVAILABLE Text of an open letter alleging violence between Trotskyist forces, sent from the French LCR (section of the USFI) to the OCI (part of the Parity Commission).

THE TORES NOW BRINGI • Socialist Press pamphlet Comrades, On Tuesday 16 September, five militants of the LCR were violently attacked at the University of Nanterre by about ten militants of the OCI, led by Frederic Augendre and Raphael, leader of the OCI at Nanterre.

Our comrades were thrown to the ground and beaten. They had to be taken to hospital.

LIAISON COMMITTEE DISCUSSIOI BULLETIN No. 2 Articles on Nicaragua, Parity Commission and TILC Declaration Price 40p plus 15p p&p from WSL, BM Box 5277, London WCIV 6XX Several of them suffered concussion. This indescribable deed was accompanied by shouts of "kill them" , "nazis" , etc.

Among the beaten militants were comrade Francois Castaing, president of the administrative committee of UNEF in economics at Nanterre and comrade Laurent Zappi, a member of the National Bureau of the JCR (a member of the administrative commission of UNEF).

We are sure that the gravity of this attack will not have escaped your notice. The methods employed are, indeed, those of the Stalinists. They are wholly opposed to the traditions of the labour movement and so can only be condemned by all those who are struggling under the banner of Trotskyism and of the Fourth International.

In the past, we have already drawn your attention a number of times to the incompatibility of such methods, which smack more of gangsterism than of revolutionary politics, with the normal relationships that should exist within the labour movement.

That is why we demand that you instantly condemn the attack carried out by your militants and leaders at Nanterre.

Trotskyist greetings, comrades, Political Bureau of the LCR Alain Krivine