THE Moscow Monitoring after the Soviet party leaderSAID NO DODEBE ETE the Helsinki Accords, signed by Albania] and the USA and Helsinki Conference European and Co-oberation in 1975. OLIVER MaDONALD These Accords included a freedon of Information, from arbitrary arrest, freedom o Ten Capico cie Many socialists in the West regard LICI COLEST 'intellectuals" 'intellectuals problems*.
But the Helsinki activists could better be dependicat ex-political prisoners, long since cut off From the mainstream of the Soviet intelligentsia, which has gone into political hibernation after the heavy, repression of the late 1960s and carly 1970s.
PRISONERS The constituency of support for the monitoring groups came largely outside prisoners in the camps, from the overwhehmingly class religious minorities, and from such ethaic minori the Crimcan Tartars.
The monitoring received support from quarters because the Helsinki Accords.
Many people felt that the Soviet [except ALEXANDER GINZBURG open to pressure because of their signature of the agree ments.
The general appeas to abstrgct moral principles bisted by the intellectual dissidents in earlier phases of the civil rights movement must have lacked credibility among the masses. But an international treaty signed by (the carried a lot more weight in their eyes.
Socialists in the West should not deride attempts to struggle for the implementation of legal agreements.
adopted by Charter of severe repression possible mechanism for open legal struggle must be used.
PRESSURE such Soviet Where the Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Group method of struggle.
While Charter 77 has sought to mobilise mass support inside petition campaign against the powers to put pressure on the Soviet government trom out It has thus told its supporters in the USSR that they should trust not in the rown capacities to struggle collectively for the implementation of the Helsinki Accords, but in the capacity of Washingion to do the iob for The group's collecting travelling USSR, and then sending it to Western embassies in Moscow:
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This approuch will not open up the kind of mass movements bureaucracy that are necessary in the struggie for democratic and working class rights штенистасу has had Jitle domestic difficulty in Shcharansky STIL Ginzburg as people who sought with Imperialism: against the Soviet Union those wishing understand the Helsinki activits should not forget some At the end of 1976 Roy appealed the Western socialist movement tr the Soviet The appeal fell on deal cars people like Orlov, and Ginzbure were arrested. In spring 19T. the Western Communist parties for support. The only paper to publish the appeal was Socialist At the instigation of the Helsinki Group 85 intellectuals Moscow TO THE wprkers in France for help, The apperatis in Renaul blocked Marxists in the plants to raise Ukrainian: buban rights activists SO OLESLU Canadian Commutist Party. No response came.
And meanwhile the siren voices of Radio Liberty and the Voice of America droned on.
Little wonder that people like Shcharansky, Grigorenko and Ginzhurg should have become disorientod and have turued away from the forces struceling better future for humanity.