yourself.
OUR supporters are now widely selling our raffle tickets. They are finding easy sales for the first prize of the new Amstrad personal computer or the latest Sharp video.
Railworkers activists Apartheid Movement are amongst the best buyers. Fifty nine tickets sold at the Willesden depot, 100 in Stratford, 11 at Marlybone. One Telecom supporter alone has sold £30-worth of tickets in East London and a supporter in Cardiff has sold a similar amount in her factory. (Please let's have the accurate figures, and the money Cardiff). Glasgow supporters write that they think they can sell more than their allocation, and supporters in NW London have asked for an additional 80 tickets.
If you are still dallying with your tickets move in the AntiHer. Hungarian Tragedy I RECALL a visit made to Eastern Europe some time ago. On returning, a CPGB member insisted The Hungarian Revoof 190o was par ticularly traumatic for those members of the CP who had to face up events un Hungary. None more so than Peter Fryer, Creouucul uule the iprising in Hungary of the CP's paper, WorkFryer wroit what he saw oal uraun was possible for the British Stalinists who censored or omitted Fryer's despatches from the Daily Worker.
ISLAND in chains is a remarkable book. Written by No censorship could prevent the crisis of Stalinism highlighted by the Hunzallall revolution, seen again in a different form ir zechoslovakia and Po. land.
Such a slim volume cannot be expected detail all the background une voasg. the book reports most essential ingredients that precipitated the uprising mainly discontent and une madlnly of lne regilt advance any reforms maintain control. particular we are told of with.
As Daily Worker readers were told of 'counterrevolution' , Fryer saw that in town after town there W ON no drive to restore capitalism. Instead we hear of democratic work. ers connes meenny lif towns and on the farms. Political revolution was on the agendo Hungary was cleansing itself of il sialnst bureaucracy Fryer understandably but wrongly characterised these developments as dua DOWe OVOCO betweer the Nags government which had popular support of the people and the armed people themselves' Unfortunately the government had strategy. The armed peo ple trusted Nagy TCTUBH coming therefore in ADOVe that sense didn't take up the question of power workers councils did not develop into organs of ed and sent to the Robben state power. Nagy, being •aL o the bureaucracy. brought in during the crisis, could not provide that strategy. Dual power only has meaning if the ouue nucate was overthrown Despite the inability of this book to draw conclu"liberal' prison visitors play, how Nelson Mandela and other ANC leaders are kept in a prison within a prison and the lengths the unoues yu to keer them isolated. You also read about the prisoners three successtul strikes two hunger and one work Each of the separate events related in the book go to make up the principal story. You can imprison men and women for vears but ,never take away their spirit of freedom. Nor can you lock up the justice their Tony Greenstein Labour Movement Campaign for Palestine sions in relation to tasks lacing ine proletariat in deformed workers states time has not devalued it valuable contribution and it is well worth reading.
• Hungarian Tragedy by Peter Fryer is published by New Park at £2.95.
cause This book is a must not just for every Socialist Action supporter Anti-Apartheid activist. It's a give to your WOr ECLeS friends relations, even if they have LICYC read book, pamphlet or pape before. It will arouse thei maignaton inspire them with some of the spirit of the theid and encourage them to want to do something in solidarity with this mighty movement. • Island in Chains by In dres Naidoo is publisber by Penguin at £1.95.
This year with the very high level of apartheid repression, the hst is long and increasing all the time; however it
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that my observations could not possibly have been true! How easy is it, therefore, to understand Peter Fryer's experience in a book reprinted after 30 years.
PETER FRYER