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~ Puplished Ly the International Secretariat of the Fourth International ~
March 6, 1963
IMPRISONED PERUVIAN TROTSKYIST ON HUNGER STRIKE
| LIMA, Peru, Feb. 25 -- Ismael Frias, a leading Peruvian + Trotskyist, was placed in Carrion hospital at El Callao, a stburb j of this city, after a 2l-day hunger strike in Peru's notorious | El Fronton prison. Although the authorities made no statement, it ‘| was learned that Frias' condition was fair.
He was arbitrarily arrested January 5 in the nationwide witeh-9 “2 . bunt that’ swept up some 1,200 trade unionists, intellectuals and edical political figures.
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Erowr-Mrt6. the concentration camp at El Sepa, Frias was later.
erred to the grim dungeons of El Fronton. — . ‘
the labor movement into the El Sepa camp, included Carlos Howes, Jorge Zegarra and Abraham Zevallos. They were later released.
. Frias belongs to the wing of the Trotskyist movement adhering to the International Secretariat of the Fourth International; the others to the International Committee. The two sectors have joined forces in fighting against the witch-hunt which was unieased by the dictatorial military junta. They report that despite the be dade the Trotskyist. movement.in. Peru is. growing in size and nfluence.
In the tangled mountainous areas where the descendants of the Incas live, Trotskyism is especially strong because of its role in helping to organize sizeable guerrilla forces.
(For a good round up about the peasant struggle in Peru under the leadership of the Trotskyist Hugo Blanco see the February 25 Militant. To obtain a copy write The Militant, 116 University Place, New York 3, N.Y.)
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" Y THE TRULY ABOUT ALD TO ALGERTA'S WAR ORFHANS
PARIS, March 4 -- Few people care -~ really care --- it seens, about the fate of Aigeria's war orphans. Rich America and. prosperous France have slipped inspired stories into the capitalist press that they are about to give all kinds of help to Algeria, which will include help, it goes-without saying, to those most desperately in need. Not in any rush, however. In the modern world of nuclear strike capacity, atomic counterfore and the balance. of terror, what is so pressing about sending food and clothing ta- North Africa?
Some radicals ~~ even some socialists -~ who pride themselves on their capacity to sympathize with human suffering, display an attitude that is not much different. They seem to find it inconvenient to organize even a small campaign of aid. Perhaps they count on the imperialists doing the Job after all.
Thus it would appear that