01/03/2023
We have found this article in El Heraldo Rojo (Heraldorojo.org)
We publish an unofficial translation of the article published in The cause of the people
This Sunday, February 25, the Cause du Peuple Hixo a call to commemorate the heroes of the proletariat of France. As every year, this commemorative act was aimed at honoring Pierre Overney, a revolutionary worker, seller of Cause Du Peuple. On February 25, 1972, while Pierrot crossed the hard experience of forced unemployment, dismissed from Renault for political reasons, participated in a brochure distribution action in front of the factory to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the massacre of the Charonne subway, a Demonstration that followed the massacre of October 17, 1961, in which the French police suffocated in mass to Algerians. After his death, class solidarity was immense and more than 200,000 people walked in a long procession behind their coffin at the beginning of March 1972.
We also pay a special tribute to the heroes of the Manouchian Group (FTP-MOI), who gave their lives for the Communist Party and the Revolution 80 years ago. In addition to a speech, two letters were read to the comrades present. The first is composed of extracts from Missak Manouchian letter to Mélinée, his wife, before his death. She demonstrates all her internationalism and heroism. The second is a letter from the Bulgarian worker Lutibrodsky, sentenced to death by the dictatorship in 1934, to his father. This letter was distributed with thousands of copies at the time as an example of the incessant struggle against bourgeoisie and fascism. The demonstration, which started from the Père Lachaise subway station, went through Pierrot's tomb, then through Szlama Grzywacz, communist fighter, Polish Jew and a member of the Manuchian group, shot on February 21, 1944.
We publish photographs of the event here, which attracted the attention and sympathy of passers -by and the employees of the Père Lachaise [Translator Note: Cemetery of Paris], mobilizing numerous followers of our newspaper. Very soon we will publish the speech and letters that were read on this occasion.
[Note to serve the people: You can see a major photographic record here ]