Letters Regarding the Soviet Union, circa 1989

AMERICAN DISSENT IN MOSCOW
By Daniel Berrigan, David Dellinger, David McReynolds, Grace Paley, Noam Chomsky, Paul Mayer, Sidney Peck

CRACKDOWN IN PRAGUE
By A. Winton Jackson, Alexei Grishin, Aneta Rupetal, Barbel Bohley, Daniel Ellsberg, David McReynolds, E. P. Thompson, Ferenc Miszlivetz, Gabor Demszky, Gyorgy Konrad, Harold Pinter, I. F. Stone, Ingrid Bakse, Jacek Czaputowicz, Janos Kis, Jim Wallis, Joan Baez, Joanne Landy, John Edmonds, Krystyna Surowiec, Lynne Jones, Martin Boettger, Mary Kaldor, Mient Jan Faber, Milan Nikolic, Neal Ascherson, Nevzat Helvazi, Noam Chomsky, Oleg Rumjancev, Ottilia Solt, Pam Solo, Petra Kelly, Piotr Niemczyk, Radha Kumar, Reinhard Weisshuhn, Ron Keating, Sonia Licht, Stuart Weir, Todd Gitlin, Tomas Mastnak, Ulrike Poppe, V.A. Kusin, Vlodimir Martynjuk, William Sloane Coffin, Zsuzsa Szelenyi

In response to PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE (February 2, 1989)

VICTIMS
By Daniel Ellsberg, David McReynolds, I. F. Stone, Noam Chomsky

To the Editors:

An appeal from the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, along with Jiri Pelikan, Andrei Sakharov and Pavel Litvinov, calls for world-wide participation of socialists, communists, democratic and humanitarian organizations and individuals in protests against the repression of civil liberties in the USSR and Eastern Europe. In November the appeal focuses on the Czechoslovak political prisoners—Jaroslav Sabata and Jiri Muller.

'FREEDOM & PEACE' & PRISON
By A. Winton Jackson, Beverly Woodward, Daniel Ellsberg, David McReynolds, Deborah Lubar, Gail Daneker, Jim Wallis, Joanne Landy, John Miller, Judith Hempfling, Melinda Fine, Noam Chomsky, Polly Duncan, Richard A. Falk, Richard Baggett Deats, Robert F. Lifton, Seymour Melman, Steven Becker, Virginia Baron

To the Editors:

Your readers may be interested in the statement below, which was sent to Polish authorities to protest against the imprisonment of two founding members of the new independent Polish group, Freedom and Peace.

FOR 'SOLIDARITY'
By Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Garson, Barry Commoner, David McReynolds, Hal Draper, Harley Shaiken, I. F. Stone, Joanne Landy, Kate Ellis, Michael Harrington, Seymour Melman, William K. Tabb

To the Editors:

As American leftists we are greatly disturbed by the increasingly harsh campaign against dissidents in the KOR (Polish initials of the Workers Defense Committee/Committee for Social Self Defense), supporters of Poland's Solidarity movement. In particular we are concerned about the attack on one of the group's leading spokesmen, Jacek Kuron.