Parole Mark Curtis Now!
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tis, a trade union activist be freed."
Spokespersons for the Mark Curtis Free Mark Curtis Now! To join in Defense Committee have announced this fight, contributions and letters to the launching of an international the State Board of Parole should be sent supporters the defense committee Mark Curtis Defense Committee, states, "We want to expand the field for P.O. Box 1048, Des Moines, Iowa SOCIALIST ACTION NOVEMBER 1992 3 from the internal life of the engineering union. In May, the NUMSA [National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa] leadership organized the distribution of a leaflet entitled "prepare the war" against layoffs and wage restrictions. Then came the success of the general strike on Aug. 3 and 4.
On Aug. 8, the union leadership met and proposed to the branches a compromise with the bosses that included abandonment of the demand for a moratorium on layoffs, its replacement by negotiation of various forms of short-time working, temporary plant closures and early retirement, or simply, payment for 15 weeks of retraining after being laid off.
Thus, in a few weeks, the union had passed from conducting a "war" against layoffs to a proposal for managing enterprise reform-despite a massive general strike. On Aug. 11, the regional leadership in eastern Witwatersrand responded: "The proposals from the NEC are substantively unacceptable. Our members have consistently demanded ... serious protection against the daily threat of retrenchment lay On Nov. 17, Mark Curand Socialist Workers Party (SWP) member, will go before the Iowa State Board of Parole to be considered for release from prison.
Curtis was framed up and convicted on rape and burglary charges by the Des Moines, Towa, police in 1988. He was sentenced to 25 years in state prison.
Parole Now! campaign. In a letter to to:
obtaining letters to the Iowa Parole 50311. Board urging that Curtis The defense committee explains that the Parole Board has been stalling on releasing Curtis. He has already been in prison for more than the three and a half year average served by those convicted of the same charges as Curtis.
Curtis's work and behavior record while in prison has been excellent and he is a model candidate for parole.