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VENTS, ANALYSIS RN'S ECIM JURTS accounts r alias was Natasha) and Inna ter – and I never allowed ourselves get lax, cry or complain. We didn't the SS women humiliate us even at threat of death. When things got lly tough, we sang Soviet songs – yusha, Tankmen or recited verses. When I got typhoid, I was placed the sick bay. The 'old' inmates – ech and German women Commu- ts, Yugoslav partisans helped my ands to find me. When I came to, saw palms of hands stretched wards me holding an onion and few pieces of stale bread – the Brest gift for me at the time. The ne prisoners (Marie Claude Vail- t-Couturier was included among m), helped us to get established in sick bay to avoid the exhaustive eck-ups which lasted for several urs out of doors in cold, rain and ow. Ly Alpatova performed gical operations at the sick bay. e stayed, at the risk of her life, at sick bay till the very arrival of the viet troops. For a long time after the eration, letters addressed to 'Doc- Lyuba' came to the USSR from ferent countries from former inma- Soviet POWs managed to stage eroic escape, the only successful ssive escape in Oswiecim's history, which 69 people took part. The ows prepared for it for a long time thoroughly, and performed it for 25th anniversary of the October Y CENTRE in Geneva, four documents are ng compiled and will constitute the is of a political settlement. They the Afghan-Pakistani Agreement Revolution. Many of them died in the attempt." "I spent about two years in Oswie- cim," says Roman Korneyev. "The first week was the most terrible. 'Natural selection' was in progress. The newcomers were killed only for not knowing the camp routine or for failing to understand the commands. The extremely hard labour, hunger, diseases, tortures and punishments and beastly conditions of life undermi- ned health and crippled people. I still see in my dreams, the heaps of dead bodies near the barracks, the smoke coming from the crematoriums and the emaciated prisoners. My blood still curdles when I recollect my meetings with Mengele, the sa- dist-doctor. I witnessed seven 'selec- tions' when he was looking for people for his experiments. "But still many prisoners survived. Mutual help made it possible for us to stand up to everything and not to lose our human dignity. My friends in the camp supported me at the hardest times. They were B. Frantiszek from Krakow, Gustav Rabolyan from Paris, P. Bogev from Hungary and Alexan- der Lebedev from Moscow. We regarded our chief task to send outside, through underground chan- nels the truth about Oswiecim so that people would learn about the crimes being committed by the nazis. "As the front-line from the East drew nearer to the camp, an order came from Berlin to get rid of the prisoners and everything that could compromise the nazis. The internatio- nal underground organization in the camp learned about this and informed the outside world of the crime being prepared, which made it impossible for the nazis to fulfil their plans." I often asked myself one and the same question: "Do I have the right to ask these people to tell about what they had gone through, to relive the years spent in that nazi hell?" Please forgive me, dear and coura- geous people! But we must go back to it. Everyone should know about it so that the horrors of fascism will never be repeated. Galina SILCHENKO on non-interference and refusal of intervention, which is necessary for a further withdrawal of Soviet troops; the Afghan-Pakistani Agreement on Voluntary Return of Refugees; the Declaration on International Guaran- tees on the Part of the USSR and the USA, and, lastly, the Document on Mutual Relations. This, to date, is a conditional name, but the meaning of the fourth document is in that it will contain a linkage of all the elements of settlement with the principle of non-interference in Afghanistan's af- fairs and the withdrawal of troops." 5 'MN' INTERNATIONAL ROSTRUM AAPSO'S NEW STRATEGY "The present session of the Presidium of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) featured a new motto: 'Toward a New Strategy and Outlook for Afro-Asian Solidarity'. The point is that in the last few years the AAPSO's relations with national solidarity committees have deteriorated and, consequently, its popular base has shrunk. It's high time we brought our strategy into line with the demands of today." That was how Mourad GHALEB, former Foreign Minister of the ARE, characterized the AAPSO's activities in an interview with MN. On the 14th anniversary of the AAPSO's Presidium session in Cairo, which coincided with the 30th anniversary of the organiza- tion itself, Ghaleb was confirmed Acting Chairman. Q.: What plans do you have for restructuring the AAPSO's activi- ties? A.: The main thing is to work out a plan of action which corresponds to the problems posed by our epoch. We intend to put special emphasis on activating the move- ment's national committees. This will increase and strengthen the movement's active base. The second crucial aspect of our plan involves maintaining a rea- listic approach in assessing the international situation and problems we encounter. As a re- sult of our lack of realism, our arbitrary manipulation with slogans in the past, we have become divorced from reality and thus incapable of making correct deci- sions. Today it is essential that we realize that all disputes and conflict situations must be re- solved by means of dialogue, not confrontation. Given that, imperia- lism remains the main opponent of the national and economic libera

contributed to the world peace 2 28) That the fate of world peace will not be decided by a mere handful of states; all contries, great or small, strong or weak, can play a role in the struggle for a nuclear-free world. Taking the success of the Berlin International Meeting as a turning-point, is it not an essential task of AAPSO to collaborate with the World Peace Council and other relevant bodies to urgently assist in the exchange of experience, particularly in agreements and such complex fields of science, international drafting treaties, analyzing strategic data, and so on. Law, and other. etc. In this way Such countries the comparatively advanced experience of example as those covered by the Tlatelolco and Rarotonga Treaties can be shared with other peoples embarking on the road of struggle for nuclear-weapons free zones. Even in the region of Britain this experience is urgently needed. For example, there are powerful political factors and social forces that could be mobilized in support of a nuclear-weapon-free

Speech to Commission on National Reconciliation. 7th AAPSO. IA Thank you, Mr Chavnar, for giving me the opportunity to addreer this Commission. In ardu t seve the valuable tine A delegater, I shall confire my remarks to junt me aspect of the perities A national reconciliation which is, however, an aspect • which I believe to be of dieet relevare to the stripple A the struggles A the Afro-Asian peoples, namely the exterrion A thes ufluence its the regione A the imperalit heaittarde. The case Litatis. The in Ireland the national likvation strygle provides one example Athis, acting as it does a peritical and ideological bridge between the independence

Thank you, Mr Chairman, for giving me the opportunity to address this Commission, on behalf of the delegates from Britain. In order to save of the positive the valuable time of delegates I shall confine my remarks to just one example, of national conciliation. example, however, I believe to be very crucial, namely the Irish question of Ireland. In many ways the national liberation struggle of the Irish politically ideologically people acts as a bridge between the oppressed and independent struggles of the peoples of Asia, Africa & Latin America on the one hand, and the social and class struggles of the peoples of Europe on the other. In no respect is this clearer than in the way in which the Irish Republican Movement has creatively adapted the politics of national reconciliation to the circumstances prevailing in this country. Irish Republican Movement During the past year the political party, Sinn Fein, has advanced a programme under the name of 'national consensus' which calls for unity of all political forces organisations & individuals who support Ireland's reunification and independence, That call has been made to all parties, including the ruling party of the Dublin government, a party whose programme of mass support are based on its stated support for Irish reunification The call it made to all parties regardless of their differing views on strategy and tactics of struggle. from this The debate which resulted/during recent months Ireland's has enabled the revolutionary patriots greatly widen their audience to rank-and-file supporters of other parties who share this fundamental belief in Irish unity but who have long been isolated from the revolutionary struggle by their party leaderships. The fact ① ①B

Now Sbliged by that there party leaderships have been by Ireland's revolutionary patriots mass demand to speak to for the first time in twenty years. This shows that the twenty-year- 2 If nationalist people long suffering and sacrifices made by the heroic masses/ the and this armed in occupied and this armed have not been in vain. eastern Ireland bearing for this national liberation struggle is now an established fact, its and political leadership is an element On the political stage that can no longer be ignored. most notable and most It is highly relevant to our discussion, that this new significant development has taken place through in the context of the presentation the Republican Movement by of a national reconciliation programme. This illustrates most forcefully how the presence of a national liberation movement on European soil provides means ideas and a through which the lessons of the advanced experience of the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America can be channelled back to the region of the imperialist heartlands themselves, and dynamise the struggle themselves. In turn, a growing orientation this provides a favorable context for the origination of the Irish Republican Movement at the direction of friendship and unity with the socialist countries of a parallel to that seen in so many countries such as the in the so-called operating heartlands become, Events in Ireland Nigeria, to name England invariably have an immediate only one example. repercussion within Britain, and for that matter within the for the large Irish Communities in Britain

region of the imperialist heartlands themselves. dynamite the class and social struggles there. and dynamite the class and social struggles there. In turn, this provides a favourable concept national liberation for the orientation of the Irish Republican Movement in the direction of unity and friendship with peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America the struggles of the Afro-Asian peoples and the socialist countries. This process has been Afghanistan paralleled in many countries, Nicaragua to name to one only examples.

3 • identifys are a major component of the working class in Britain, in some cases even a half of workers Britain being of Irish origin. These workers identify with Ireland's national liberation, and constitute as extremely destabilising factor for the class domination of British imperialism within its home territory. Once again there is a Finally, there is a further connection with the Afro-Asian peoples' struggles in that the large communities of Afro-Asian origin living in Britain, communities represented here by is this Congress by the delegation from Britain, live alongside their Irish brothers and sisters in the towns of Britain, facing together the racism and prejudice of British imperialist society. Together, the Irish and Afro-Asian communities constitute a politically a powerful element of the movement within Britain, that sophisticated force that can helps to dynamise the class & social in Britain movements which have for so long been corrupted by imperialist chauvinism, and guide them into the road of international friendship and solidarity. I should therefore like to propose that AAPSO give full support to the further strengths of links between the struggles of the Afro-Asian and Irish