BY NAOMI CRAINE
NEW YORK - The emergency campaign to demand that Iowa prison authorities allow Mark Curtis to receive a copy of the new Pathfinder pamphlet on his case deserves the backing of all fighters for democratic rights, concluded the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party. Meeting here April 22-24, the party's leadership committee voted to back the protest campaign launched by the Mark Curtis Defense Committee 100 percent.

Leadership delegations from communist leagues in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, as well as a representative of the Communist Organizing Committee in France, attended the meeting. All have fought for Curtis's release, and will be taking on this new campaign. A representative of the Young Socialists leadership also attended the meeting. The YS National Committee had recently made getting out the new pamphlet one of the main campaigns of the organization.

Responding to this latest attack on Curtis by reaching out to others involved in struggles today - from fighters demanding the release of Irish political prisoners, to defenders of the Cuban revolution and supporters of women's rights, to those protesting President Bill Clinton's plans to curtail democratic rights in the wake of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City - will make Iowa officials pay a price for their outrageous actions.

The socialist workers will join with other Mark Curtis supporters around the world over the next two weeks in urging unionists, farmers, political activists, and youth to write or fax Iowa prison officials demanding Curtis be given his copy of Why is Mark Curtis Still in Prison?  
 
 
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