end to this harassment.
JACKSON writes on Petr Uhl.
THE NAME of Perr Uhl first found its way into the news in Match 191 when he gent on trial with IN others accused of Revolutionary Youth Mave ary Socialist Party: during 19c at ps These originated at the Philosophy UniversityThe post-68 leadership set to work to root out everything and LYLEYUBE COELLED WILDLIC Prague Spring both inside and outside the Communist Pay. In particular a massive party eventually led to the expulsion of half a million members from the CPCS, a third of its total CHALLENGE The formation of Revolutionary Socialist Party was a challenge to any ilusions 111 Inc benevelence section of the party leadership.
project an alternative prog police surveillance in Prague. They are Trotskyist Petr intend to influence those plans by campaigning for an In this and the next issue we look at the careers and political outlooks of the two men. This week MARK Gramme to that of all wings of the Communist Party and saw 1081 only the activey of the Crechoslovak masses selves could put it into practice.
Ta do this a solid and independent organisation reguired.
SOLIDARITY The RSP consciously identilied itself with the international struggles of the oppressed. declaring its solidarity with the French workers and students who had risen against French Capita sin 17 May 1900 800 WEILLE with the Viernamese poople against US struggle aperialism TEE WANTED HELLE 40 being independent burcaucrats, bul ol every Jorce in world positics other than the RSP worked •Tha official trade union commitrees. especially the workers' and university any ployees and Prague students. One of their nig sucpesses was the production of a leaflet for the them- Soviet tanks in Prague.
second.
Soviet invasion In January 1970 the group was broken up by the work of informer provocateur, It was another 15 months before the RSP was hrought to trial.
The indictment made a torcuous attempt to link the RSP so world SION CHOCEE DETACS ARES TE contacts SIGHTESTS of tbe Ar defendants, himself, openly attacked the Tabric of the insinuation indicement was based At the opening of the trial challenged tionalry: pointing contacts metal- judges with the secret police.
and the complicity of some of the them in the show trials of the 1950g mass Frolik, admitted taking part in anniversary of the and agent indictment saying, imperialism and to INTEREST Western far The tria!
falsebood and which the conslitti the cul the overflow maintained by the out at thetrial.
defentiant. the various activities mentioned revolutionary in the indictment, but rejected the notion that the activity was in any way anti-socialist. He denounced the absurdity of the HOW Dare you say we are anti-socialists, centrably of when we lake our inspirator from Marx, Engels and Lenin?' Eastern tarianism aroused greal Pramie. Dit the morning of & March lawyers the defendants this protested against the refusal of The presiding judge ro admit the demands public to the trial. The judge repliod that, if all those who held corry tickets were allowed supports.
'courtroon would Uhl received a four year atlacks sentence, tbe highest handed openly skyist Al the start of 1907. Uhl Frosty participated in the launching of Charter 77, socing the need for 1 pold douse The Marxists involve theiselves in the movement for human rights In an Open Letter to the Western Revolutionary Lett in March 1977 U/bl pointed our the the ISSUE democratic rights in the fight Europe.
He argues against any sec on the part of the Western Ear lett over this issue The More recently be has restated view of the Charter, comparing its programme of that of SCOT Transitional Programme of the Fourth International, which he In another document, pro testing against the elements of anti-semilism in the regue's on the Charter he Trot thus undercutting the accempts as term held for 24 hours and his flar searched to present hin EAC Chartists, Ales Machacek and Vladimir Lastuvka. His driving licence has boen removed and his phone cut off The police even tried to sow divisions within the Charter movement by terrorist actions rejection of these ridiculous insinuations by the rest of the Charter dissuaded the police from pursuing this tactic further, Finally, in December 1977 Uhl lost his job as an engineer informing bin of this mo c in the Charter as the reason.
SURVEILLANCE Policemen sit outside th door of his flar checking te visitors and sometimes -pre venting them enterits ERIL hour surveillance. is an bonour accorded by the regime only a Uhl and Frantisek Kriege they have of Ubl's importaace HETC ДАНСЕ ВОРСИСЫ It is likely that the authorities against Uhl, possibly a trial it To counter these possibilities the Weslern lett has to take the case of Pett Uhl and u demand an end to the haras ment and that he gets his b
Last December a black steelworker in Houston, Texas outright victory. A few months SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 16 March, 1978 pege 12
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Uhl and Dr Frantisek Kriegel, a Praesidium member under Alexander Dubeek. We don't know what the bureaucracy plans to do with Uhl and Kriegel, but we