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Fourth International Salutes Greek Trotskyists Released From Prison

24 October 1973 · The Ninth World Congress and after (1969–1974) · 275 words

Greece

Published English text: Intercontinental Press, vol. 11 no. 40, 12 November 1973 · United Secretariat of the Fourth International.

Read by machine (OCR) from the scan of the issue, so it carries misreadings; quote from the scan.

The following statement was issued October 24 by the United Secretariat of the Fourth International.

The United Secretariat of the Fourth International and the Internationalist Communist party, Greek section of the Fourth International, warmly salute all the recently amnestied Trotskyist militants. With exemplary courage in the struggle against the military dictatorship and capitalism these comrades have defended the program of proletarian struggle and socialist revolution in Greece, the strategy of the Socialist United States of Europe, the policy of the antibureaucratic revolution in the deformed or degenerated workers states, and the anti-imperialist struggles in the colonial countries. In short, they have defended the banner of the Fourth International, the banner of world socialist revolution. Their conduct in the jails of the security services, before the courts, and in the prisons writes a glorious page in the history of revolutionary proletarian struggles for socialism.

In a situation characterized by the sharpening of the class struggle, both in Europe and on a world scale, by the first shakings of the dictatorial regime of the Greek military by the past and recent student demonstrations and the ferment among the people and the workers that is heralding broader social struggles, in a situation favorable to the revolutionary Marxist movement in many countries of the world, a movement that is already causing uneasiness to the ruling classes and has faced repressive measures (as in France), the Fourth International and the Greek ICP call upon all those in Greece who consider themselves to be Trotskyists to rally to the ranks of the World Party of Socialist Revolution in order to build the mass revolutionary Marxist party in Greece. That is the indispensable condition for the victorious outcome of future mass struggles for the proletarian socialist revolution.

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