FRENCH ORGANIZATION
Paris
‘The week of May 16-21 has been designated by the Jeunesses Communistés Revolutionnaires [Revolutionary Communist Youth] as a week of action against thé war in Vietnam and of solidarity with ‘the National Liberation Front in south Vietnam.
The decision was made at a national ‘conference held in Paris April 2 which set up a provisional leadership for the new organiza-= | tion. More than 120 delegates, representing fourteen cities-and five schools in Paris were present. They spoke for groups that had been expelled from or who had resigned from the Union des Etudiants Communistes [Communist Student Union], groups still remaining within that organization, which is dominated by the French Communist party, and other youth groupings in various parts of the country.
~ The conference. elected a National Committee of thirty-three nembers, a National Bureau of Coordination, and scheduled the first congress. of the organization for the end of October.
The Jeunesses Communistes Revolutionnaires consists for the © most part of members of the Union des Etudiants Communistes and the Jeunesses Communistes [Communist Youth] expelled for criticizing the line of so-called "peaceful coexistence," and. the bureaucratic character of the organizations favoring that line. .
“In France the "peaceful coexistence" line led the Communist party and the organizations favoring its policies to support the — candidacy of Mitterand, a capitalist politician, in the recent — presidential election. The "peaceful coexistence" line has likewise led them to refuse to conduct any kind of real struggle against the war in Vietnam. When the youth put. these policies into question, they were answered by expulsions. . ‘The new youth organization plans to publish a newspaper, the Avant- ~garde Jeunesse (Vanguard Youth].
PEEIGS BEVQUETIGN STILL, TOO HOT OR TURES
Two: Turkish translators, Vedat Gunyol and Sabahattin Eyuboel ; and a publisher, Aziz Nesin, were found guilty in Istanbul April 19 of translating and publishing "Communist propaganda"; i.e., ‘extracts from the correspondence of Frangois-Emile Babeuf, one of the prominent. figures of the