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Soe Translation from French 4 tlerocratie houvelle"” - Noven ber st , * - “onthiy .2gazine of world Politics oo, oe Director ~ JACQUES’ DUCLOS © sR . 29, rue du Quatre Septecbre, Paris 2, (France). ve THB TRIAL OF THE TWELVE IS OURTRIAL =. ein te TS ee Pee ey a / Ld - NN by ccoscey- Conon puty o ine Professor of. the University Kothing is more characteristic of the degeneration and of the corruption of de:.ocracy in the conditions of inperialis: "estern" than the action brought against the twelve heads of the Conmunist Party of the United | States. Nothing shows 1.ore how the bourgeois capitalist feels today Boy suffocated & uy his oan slightiess, Violat cynically this legality and abandons all denocratic ways, in such ‘ & manner that the working cless aml the working mSses appear to the eyes of the entire people as the only defenders of a judicial arranged . life, of a civilized life, as well as of liberty and progress. The Anerican reaction gives the tone to the reaction of France, italy, Great Britain and of the neighboring countries in asking to . give ten years of prison iv We iecbors of the political bureau of a eee 9 seme bc sty the @merican Com.unist Party. it priaes itself on having sizes furnished the model for the purification of the body of officials in G<at Britain, for the super-wicked laws against the syndicats and the rigi:t to strike in Fance, for the Social-Christian propositions tending, in Belgium to exclude the cormunist representatives from adr: nistrative posts etc., end now it aspires to treate a precedent for the pronibition of cozrunist parties in these countries. wee Of what ere he twelve heads of the Com unist Party of the United States eccused? +oes one censwe tnen for sose deliberate act: for example a violence, a fraud, even a simple presumption of “irpeding the liberty to work"7 :. * one reread the bill of indict:ent: the only charre thet one will find there is the fact that the accused are proficients of Karxism-ieninisn, in a country where liberty of thought is written ir. the Constitution, and newbers of the Communist Party, in a country wheré the Communist Party is legal. They re-established the Party in 1945, in a public congress; they have created their divisions of fauncation without even fearing to encourage the recruitment of mexbers; they have spread their principles by books and articles, schools, and courses of study. Here 42 511 their conenizscy, in the exact terms af the bali of indi ctment. LZ R bo OL euttntiaeial Detent eee d a6 Fi © ee ~ = ra Y -- soe petal ~ wie hP: ; - ~*s aoe comm cae oo, oe ass ee on. at “gi weds ele Be ra re it inte al ama “athe Nothing like that, absolutely nothinr. Let one read and let ss | | [00-35 Yd ~