Fourth International denounces with indignation the soandalous verdict in the Rabat trial against the militants of the vanguard belonging bi the’ Union Nationale des Foroes Populaires of Morocco.
The eloven death penalties, which included Mohammed Basri, Moumen Diouri, Omar Ben jelloun, imprisoned since last July, and Ben Barka, who was already condemned to death for expressing solidarity with the Algerian Revolution, constitutes a new stage in the only real plot involved in this case -- the plot of the neocolonialist Moroccan authoritics against the movement which has conducted the struggle in recent years against French imperialism and sought to win genuine economic and political independence for the Moroccan masses,
The Rabat trial has placed a glaring light on the plot masterminded by the Moroccan monarchy following its stinging electoral defeat, The defense exposed the torture practiced by the police on the defendants, the violations of judicial procedures, and cspeoially the denial of the right of the defense to bring in French attorneys in accordance with Moroccan law, After some weeks of battling these deliberate, illegal procedures of the court, the lawyers and the defendants ceased to participate in what had become a mockery of justice,
Together with the odious death sentences, the court made a repugnant effort in its verdict to divide the defendants.
The Fourth International, in sending its greetings to the defendants, appeals to the world workers movement and the libcration movements of the colonial peoples to indicat their feclings about the scandalous Rabat verdict and help save the lives and win the release of these militants of the Moroccan vanguard.
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GET U.S. TROOPS OUT OF VIETNAM!
The United Seoretariat of the Fourth International issued the following declaration on March 16:
In recent weeks the imperialist rulers of the United States have been threatening to extend their undeclared war in South Vietnam into North Vietnam, At the moment they have somewhat muted their belligerent. declarations about bombing Hanoi. Since McNamara!'s return to Washington the talk has been reduced to mounting guerrilla forays into North Vietnam and to increasing the already colossal flow of weapons and dollars to keep the rotten Saigon regime in power.
The danger thus remains that U.S. intervention in South Vietnam oan "escalate" at any time. This in turn would almost surely bring in China ond the Soviet Union,
The basic fact in South Vietnam is that U.S. imperialism and the reactionary puppets it is maintaining there face a military debacle, In the same region where imperialist France suffered a historic defeat a decade ago, the still mightier power of imperialist America now faces a still more spectacular catastrophe at the hands of an insurgent people seeking national liberation and socialisn,
Whet power the colonial revolution is revealing! With a courage that will live forever in the memory of mankind, the Vietnamese people are following the example of the Chinese, the Cubans, and the Algerians, and, almost barehanded, are seizing the very arms brought to suppress them in order to turn them against their would-be conquerors,
This lesson will ring throughout the rest of the colonial world with thousandfold force, bringing fresh tens of millions to their feet in rebellion against the schemes of the new imperialist combina-~ tion that was created on the ashes of World War II,
And inside the United States itself, big sectors of the population, particularly among the workers, farmers and minorities, will recall the lessons of Korea and speak out more insistently against the insane policy of plunging American forces into military adven~ tures in foreign lands. The same sectors that created an irresistible pressure at the end of World War II to bring the GI's home, will gain in courage in demanding that the American troops be withdrawn from Vietnam,
The whole world will back them in three slogans that are the nost realistic in the situation: —
Hands Off Vietnam! Let the Vietnamese people determine their own fate! Get U.S,