Sedition
L.R.O.

LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Act
10 of 1920

Amended by
172/1961

8/1962
36 of 1971

136/1976

Current Authorised Pages
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SEDITION ACT

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Index of Subsidiary Legislation
Page

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CHAPTER 11:04

SEDITION ACT

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION

1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Meaning of seditious intention.

Limitation.
Determination of intention.

4. Offences.

POWER TO PROHIBIT IMPORTATION OF
SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS

5. Power to prohibit importation of seditious publications.

SUSPENSION OF NEWSPAPERS CONTAINING
SEDITIOUS MATTER

6. Suspension of newspapers containing seditious matter.

POWER TO PROHIBIT CIRCULATION OF
SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS

7. Power of Court to prohibit circulation of seditious publications.

SUPPLEMENTAL
8. Punishment for offences.
9. Consent of Director of Public Prosecutions.

10. Saving of other powers.
11. Limitation on legal proceedings.
12. Evidence.
13. Search warrant.

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CHAPTER 11:04

SEDITION ACT

An Act to provide for the punishment of seditious acts and
seditious libel, to facilitate the suppression of seditious
publications, and to provide for the temporary suspension
of newspapers containing seditious matter.

[9TH APRIL 1920]

1. This Act may be cited as the Sedition Act.

2. (1) In this Act—
“Court” means the High Court or a Judge thereof;
“identifiable group” means any section of the public distinguished

by colour, race, religion or ethnic origin or profession, calling
or employment;

“newspaper” means a periodical publication containing any
public news or comments thereon or any discussion of
political matters;

“periodical publication” includes every publication issued
periodically, or in parts or numbers at intervals, whether
regular or irregular;

“publication” includes all written or printed matter, and every
thing whether of a nature similar to written or printed matter
or not, containing any visible representation, or by its form,
shape, or in any manner capable of suggesting words or
ideas, and every copy and reproduction of or extract from
any publication;

“publish”, in relation to a seditious publication, includes publish
the publication, either by itself or as part of a newspaper or
periodical or otherwise than as part of a newspaper or
periodical, for distribution to the public;

“seditious publication” includes every publication, whether
periodical or otherwise, having a seditious intention;

“statements” includes words spoken or written or recorded
electronically or electromagnetically or otherwise, and signs or
other visible representations.

1950 Ed.
Ch. 4. No. 6.

10 of 1920.

Commencement.

Short title.

Interpretation.
[36 of 1971].

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(2) In any prosecution for an offence under this Act a
person shall be deemed, until the contrary is proved, knowingly to
have been in possession of a seditious publication, if the same is
found in any place or thing over which he has the possession,
custody, power, or control.

3. (1) A seditious intention is an intention—
(a) to bring into hatred or contempt, or to excite

disaffection against Government or the
Constitution as by law established or the House
of Representatives or the Senate or the
administration of justice;

(b) to excite any person to attempt, otherwise than
by lawful means, to procure the alteration of any
matter in the State by law established;

(c) to raise discontent or disaffection amongst
inhabitants of Trinidad and Tobago;

(d) to engender or promote—
(i) feelings of ill-will or hostility between one

or more sections of the community on the
one hand and any other section or sections
of the community on the other hand; or

(ii) feelings of ill-will towards, hostility to or
contempt for any class of inhabitants of
Trinidad and Tobago distinguished by race,
colour, religion, profession, calling or
employment; or

(e) to advocate or promote, with intent to destroy in
whole or in part any identifiable group, the
commission of any of the following acts, namely:

(i) killing members of the group; or
(ii) deliberately inflicting on the group

conditions of life calculated to bring about
its physical destruction.

(2) But an act, speech, statement or publication is not
seditious by reason only that it intends to show that the Government

Meaning of
seditious
intention.
[36 of 1971].

Limitation.

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has been misled or mistaken in its measures, or to point out errors
or defects in the Government or Constitution as by law
established, with a view to their reformation, or to excite persons
to attempt by lawful means the alteration of any matter in the
State by law established, or to point out, with a view to their
removal by lawful means, matters which are producing, or have
a tendency to produce—

(a) feelings of ill-will, hostility or contempt between
different sections of the community; or

(b) feelings of ill-will, hostility or contempt between
different classes of the inhabitants of Trinidad and
Tobago distinguished by race, colour, religion,
profession, calling or employment.

(3) In determining whether the intention with which any
act was done, any words were spoken or communicated, or any
document was published, was or was not seditious, every person
shall be deemed to intend the consequences which would naturally
follow from his conduct at the time and under the circumstances
in which he so conducted himself.

4. (1) A person is guilty of an offence who—
(a) does or attempts to do, or makes any preparation

to do, or conspires with any person to do, any act
with a seditious intention;

(b) communicates any statement having a
seditious intention;

(c) publishes, sells, offers for sale or distributes any
seditious publication;

(d) with a view to its being published prints, writes,
composes, makes, reproduces, imports or has in
his possession, custody, power or control any
seditious publication.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), a person guilty of an offence
under this section is liable—

(a) on summary conviction to a fine of three thousand
dollars and to imprisonment for two years; or

Determination
of intention.

Offences.
[36 of 1971].

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(b) on conviction on indictment to a fine of twenty
thousand dollars and to imprisonment for five
years, and any seditious publication, the subject
matter of the charge, shall be forfeited.

(3) Notwithstanding any other written law to the contrary
where a person is charged summarily with an offence under this
section the Magistrate shall—

(a) inform him that he may, if he so requires, be tried
indictably by a jury instead of being tried
summarily and explain to him what is meant by
being tried summarily; and

(b) after so informing him ask him whether he wishes
to be tried indictably by a jury or consents to be
tried summarily,

and if the person charged requests to be tried indictably, the
Magistrate shall proceed with the matter as if it was a
preliminary enquiry.

(4) A person shall not be convicted under this section for
communicating, importing or having a seditious publication or
statement in his possession, power, or control, if he proves that he
did not know and had no reason to suspect that the publication or
statement was seditious.

POWER TO PROHIBIT IMPORTATION OF
SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS

5. (1) Whenever the President is of opinion that any
publication or statement is seditious, the President may, if he thinks
fit, by Order, prohibit the importation into Trinidad and Tobago of
that publication or statement and also, in the case of a periodical
publication or statement, of any past or future issue of that
publication or statement.

(2) Any person who imports, prints, publishes, copies,
reproduces, communicates or has in his possession, power, or
control any publication or statement of which the importation is
for the time being prohibited by Order is liable on summary
conviction to a fine of ten thousand dollars or to imprisonment for
three years or on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for
five years, and the publication or statement shall be forfeited.

Power to
prohibit
importation of
seditious
publications.
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(3) Where the importation of a publication or statement
is for the time being prohibited by Order, any person—

(a) to whom such a publication is sent without his
knowledge or privity; or

(b) to whom such a publication or statement is sent in
execution of an order given before the prohibition
on its importation came into effect; or

(c) who has such a publication or statement in his
possession, power or control at the time when the
prohibition on its importation comes into effect,

shall forthwith deliver it to the person in charge of the nearest
police station and if he fails to do so is liable on summary conviction
to a fine of five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for two years.

(4) Any person who complies with subsection (3) or is
convicted of a breach of the provisions of that subsection shall not
be fined or imprisoned for having imported the same publication
or statement or for having it in his possession, power, or control.

(5) The Postmaster General or any person in the public
service authorised by him who suspects that any postal packet
contains a publication or statement of which the importation is for
the time being prohibited shall send the packet to the Comptroller
of Customs and Excise.

(6) This section shall have effect as if it formed part of the
Customs Act, and a person punishable under that Act and also this
Act may be punished under either that Act or this Act, but shall not
be punished twice for the same offence.

SUSPENSION OF NEWSPAPERS CONTAINING
SEDITIOUS MATTER

6. (1) Where any person is convicted of publishing a
seditious libel in any newspaper, the Court may, if it thinks fit,
either in lieu of or in addition to any other punishment, make orders
as to all or any of the following matters, that is to say:

(a) prohibiting either absolutely or except on
conditions to be specified in the order, for any
period not exceeding one year from the date of
the order, the future publication of that newspaper;

Ch. 78:01.

Suspension
of newspapers
containing
seditious matter.

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(b) prohibiting either absolutely or except on the
conditions to be specified in the order, for the
period aforesaid, the publisher, proprietor, or
editor of that newspaper from publishing, editing,
or writing for any newspaper, or from assisting,
whether with money or money’s worth, material,
personal service, or otherwise, in the publication,
editing, or production of any newspaper; and

(c) that for the period aforesaid any printing press
used in the production of the newspaper be used
only on conditions to be specified in the order, or
that it be seized by the Police and detained by
them for the period aforesaid.

(2) Any person who contravenes an order made under
this section is guilty of an offence.

(3) Nothing in this Act affects the power of the Court to
punish any person contravening an order made under this section
for contempt of Court; but a person shall not be punished twice for
the same offence.

POWER TO PROHIBIT CIRCULATION OF
SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS

7. (1) Where on the application of the Director of Public
Prosecutions it is shown to the satisfaction of the Court that the
issue or circulation of a seditious publication is or, if commenced
or continued, would be likely to lead to unlawful violence, or
appears to have the object of promoting feelings of hostility
between different classes or races of the community, the Court
shall make an order (in this Act called a “prohibition order”)
prohibiting the issue and circulation of that publication (in this
Act called a “prohibited publication”) and requiring every person
having any copy of the prohibited publication in his possession,
power, or control forthwith to deliver every such copy into the
custody of the Police.

(2) An order under this section may be made ex parte on
the application of the Director of Public Prosecutions in Chambers.

Power of
Court to
prohibit
circulation of
seditious
publications.
[36 of 1971
136/1976].

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(3) It shall be sufficient if the order so describes the
prohibited publication that it can be identified by a reasonable
person who compares the prohibited publication with the
description in the prohibition order.

(4) Any person on whom a copy of a prohibition order is
served by any member of the Police Service shall forthwith deliver
to that police officer every prohibited publication in his possession,
power, or control, and, if he fails to do so, he is guilty of an offence.

(5) Any person to whose knowledge it shall come that a
prohibited publication is in his possession, power, or control shall
forthwith deliver every such publication to the person in charge of
the nearest Police Station.

(6) The Court may, if it thinks fit, either before or after
or without service of the prohibition order on any person, issue
a warrant authorising any member of the Police Service, not
below the rank of sergeant, and his assistants to break, enter,
and search, either by day or night, any building or place specified
in the order, and any enclosure, room, box, receptacle, or thing
in such building or place, and to seize and carry away every
prohibited publication there found, and to use such force as
may be necessary for the purpose.

(7) A copy of the prohibition order and of the search
warrant shall be left in a conspicuous position at every building or
place so entered.

(8) The owner of any prohibited publication delivered or
seized under this Act may, at any time within fourteen days after
the delivery or seizure, petition the Court for the discharge of the
prohibition order, and the Court, if on the hearing of the petition it
decides that the prohibition order ought not to have been made,
shall discharge the order and shall order the publication delivered
by or seized from the petitioner to be returned to him.

(9) Every prohibited publication delivered or seized under
this section with respect to which a petition is not filed within the
time prescribed above or which is not ordered to be returned to the
owner shall be taken as forfeited and shall be dealt with in such
manner as the President may direct.

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SUPPLEMENTAL

8. Unless otherwise provided, every person guilty of an
offence under this Act is liable on summary conviction, to a fine
of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years.

9. A person shall not be prosecuted under this Act without
the written consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

10. Nothing in this Act prevents a prosecution under the
Common Law or under any other Act; but a person shall not be
punished twice for the same offence.

11. A prosecution for an offence under section 4 shall be
commenced within twelve months after the offence is committed.

12. No person shall be convicted of an offence under section 4
on the uncorroborated testimony of one witness.

13. If a Magistrate is satisfied by information on oath that there
is reasonable cause to believe that an offence under this Act has
been or is about to be committed he may grant a search warrant
authorising any police officer to enter any premises or place named
in the warrant, with such assistance as may be necessary, and if
necessary by force, and to search the premises or place and every
person found therein and to seize anything found on the premises
or place which the officer has reasonable ground for suspecting to
be evidence of an offence under this Act.

Punishment
for offences.
[36 of 1971].

Consent of
Director of
Public
Prosecutions.
[172/1961
GN 8/1962
136/1976].

Saving of
other powers.

Limitation on
legal
proceedings.
[36 of 1971].

Evidence.
[36 of 1971].

Search warrant.
[36 of 1971].

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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

PROHIBITED PUBLICATIONS ORDER

made under section 5(1)

1. This Order may be c i ted as the Prohibi ted
Publications Order.

2. The publications set out in the Schedule and any past or
future issue of those publications are prohibited from being
imported into Trinidad and Tobago.

SCHEDULE
The Soviet Weekly
For a Lasting Peace, for a People’s Democracy
Caribbean News published by Billy Strachan
World Trade Union Movement (Fortnightly Illustrated Journal of the World

Federation of Trade Unions) published by W.F.T.U. Publications Ltd.
West Indian Clarion
Caribbean Clarion
West Indian News
Caribbean Challenge
Caribbean Gazette
Caribbean Advocate
Caribbean Review
Soviet News
The Mask is off!
Caribbean News published by Bill Strachan
World Trade Union Movement (Fortnightly Illustrated Journal of the World

Federation of Trade Unions) published by W.F.T.U. Publications Ltd.
Teachers of the World published by W.F.T.U. Publications Ltd.

Citation.

Schedule.

103/1952.

201/1952.

157/1953.

7/1954.

45/1954.

67/1954.

136/1954.

148/1954.

154/1954.

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Prohibited Publications Order [Subsidiary]

Bulletin of the World
Council of Peace

Active Co-Existence—
Documents and
Reflections on the
Political, Economic
and Cultural Aspects
of International Co-
operation

Peace and the Sciences

Information Bulletin …

World Marxist Review

The Marxist Quarterly

China Pictorial …

Published monthly by the
International Institute
for Peace in Vienna.

Published irregularly by
the International
Institute for Peace,
Vienna.

Published quarterly by
the International
Institute for Peace,
Vienna.

Published every two
months in Sofia by the
T.U.I. of Food,
Tobacco and Beverage
Industries.

Printed by Eveready
Printers, Toronto, and
distributed by Progress
Books, 42–48 Stafford
Street, Toronto 3,
Ontario, Canada.

do.

Published monthly in
Peking in many
languages including
English, French and
Swahili. Distributed
by Guozi Shudian,
P.O. Box 399, Peking,
Editorial Office:
Baiwanzhuang Road,
Peking 37.

Austria … …

do. … …

do. … …

Bulgaria … …

Canada … …

do. … …

People’s Republic of
China

Publication Country of Origin Description andPublisher
106/1967.

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[Subsidiary] Prohibited Publications Order

106/1967.
Publication Country of Origin Description andPublisher

China Reconstructs …

Chinese Literature …

Evergreen … …

Peking Review …

Women of China …

People’s China …

People’s Republic of
China

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

Published monthly in
Peking by the China
Welfare Institute.

Published monthly in
Peking. Distributed by
Guozi Shudian, P.O.
Box 399, Peking.
Editorial Office: Pai Wan
Chuang, Peking 37.

Published bi-monthly in
Peking by the All-
China Youth Federa-
tion and the All-China
Students Federation, 3
Yu Ho Chiao, Peking.

Published weekly in
Peking by the
Foreign Languages
Press, Pai Wan
Chuang, Peking 37.

Published bi-monthly in
Peking by the
National Women’s
Federation of the
People’s Republic of
China. Distributed by
Guozi Shudian,
P.O.Box 399, Peking.
Editorial Office: 82
Teng Shih K’ou,
Peking.

Published monthly in
Peking. Distributed
by Guozi Shudian,
P.O. Box 399, Peking.

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Official Press Releases

Eastern Horizons …

News from Cuba, alias
Cuba News, alias
Weekly News from
Cuba.

Revolucion … …

Cuba Socialists …

Hoy … …

Verde Olivo … …

Obra Revolucionairio

Servicio de Informacion

Publication Country of Origin Description andPublisher
People’s Republic of

China

do. … …

Cuba … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

From:
(i) New China News

Agency.
(ii) Press Department

of Diplomatic
Missions.

Printed by Commercial
Press Ltd.
Published in Hong
Kong. Controlled
by the Chinese
People’s Govern-
ment (C.P.G.).

Distributed weekly by
Cuban Embassies.

T h e O ff i c i a l
Government paper,
C o m m u n i s t a n d
pro-Castro.

The theoretical organ of
the Revolution.

Communist newspaper.

Cuban Armed Forces
magazine.

Produced by the Institute
of Sport, Education
and Recreation.

A news service in
Spanish put out by the
offices “Casa de las
Americas”

106/1967.

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106/1967.

El Mundo Cientifico

Granma … …

World Student News …

News Service …

Trade Union Press …

The Democratic
Journalist

Land and Labour …

Cuba … …

do. … …

Czechoslovakia* …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

The Spanish edition of
the World Federation
of Scientific Workers
“Scientific World”
published by the
Associacion de
T r a b a j a d o r e s
Cientificos de Cuba,
Cespedes 53, Santa
Clara, Cuba.

Organ of the Communist
Party of Cuba.

Published monthly by
the International
Union of Students,
Vocelova 3, Prague 2.

Published fortnightly in
Prague by the
International Union of
Students, Vocelova 3,
Prague 2.

Published fortnightly in
Prague by the World
Federation of Trade
Unions.

Published monthly by
the International
Organisation of
J o u r n a l i s t s ,
Vinohradska 3,
Prague 1.

Published every two
months in Prague by
the T.U.I. of
Agriculture and
Forestry.

Publication Country of Origin Description andPublisher

*Czechoslovakia is now called Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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106/1967.
Publication Country of Origin Description andPublisher

Information Bulletin …

Czechoslovak Life …

Information Bulletin …

For Democratic
Education

Transport Workers of the
World

Women of the Whole
World

Information Bulletin …

Afro-Asian Bulletin …

Czechoslovakia …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

East Germany …

do. … …

Egypt … …

Published in Prague
once in two months by
the T.U.I. of
Commercial, Office
and Bank Workers.

Published monthly in
English, French,
Swedish and Italian by
the Orbis Publishing
House, Prague.

Published monthly in
Prague by the
T.U.I. of Metal and
E n g i n e e r i n g
Industries.

Published, possibly
monthly, in Prague by
the T.U.I. of Teachers
(F.I.S.E.).

Quarterly review
published in Prague
by the T.U.I. of
Transport, Port and
Fishery Workers.

Published monthly by
the Women’s Interna-
tional Democratic
Federation in Berlin.

Published in Berlin by
the T.U.I. of Public
and Allied Employees.

Published in Cairo by
the Afro-Asian
Peoples’ Solidarity
O r g a n i s a t i o n .
Normally a monthly
but in fact published
irregularly.

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106/1967.
Publication Country of Origin Description andPublisher

Information Bulletin …

Revolution … …

World Federation of
Democratic Youth
Information Service

World Federation of
Democratic Youth
News

World Youth …

Information Bulletin …

Textile and Clothing
Workers in the World

The Afro-Asian Journalist

Finland … …

France … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

Italy … …

Indonesia … …

Published monthly in
Helsinki by the T.U.I.
of Building, Wood and
Building Materials
Industries.

Formerly known as
“African Revolution”.
Published monthly in
English, Spanish and
French from 40 Rue
Francois ler, Paris 8e.

Published fortnightly in
Budapest.

Published in Budapest.

Published fortnightly in
French, English,
German and Swedish
by the W.F.D.Y.,
Budapest, Hungary.

Probably published in
Hungary by the T.U.I.
of Chemical, Oil and
Allied Workers.

Published once every
two months in Milan
by the T.U.I. of Textile
and Clothing Workers.

Published every two
months by the Afro-
Asian Journalists’
Association from
Press House, Djkarta.

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106/1967.
Publication Country of Origin Description andPublisher

Korea … …

Korea Today… …

News from Hsinhua
News Agency

World Marxist Review—
Problems of Peace and
Socialism

Peace, Freedom and
Socialism—Problems
of Peace and
Socialism

Scientific World …

The Carib … …

North Korea …

do. … …

United Kingdom …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

Published in Pyongyang
by the Foreign
Languages Publishing
House.

do. … …

Published by S. Chinque,
76 Chancery Lane,
London, W.C.2.

Distributed by Central
Books Ltd., 37 Gray’s
Inn Road, London,
W.C.1 monthly.

Identical with “World
Marxist Review” but
intended for overseas
territories. Distributed
by Central Books Ltd.,
37 Gray’s Inn Road,
London, W.C.1.

Published quarterly in
London by the World
Federation of
Scientific Workers,
40 Goodge Street,
London, W.1., in
English, French,
Russian, Chinese,
German and Spanish.

Published monthly by a
dissident pro-Chinese
group of West Indians
from 374 Gray’s Inn
Road, London, W.C.1.

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Comment … …

Labour Monthly …

Marxism Today …

Challenge … …

Vanguard … …

The Broadsheet …

The Daily Worker now
The Morning Star

Malayan Monitor …

United Kingdom …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

Published weekly by the
Communist Party of
Great Britain, 16 King
Street, W.C.2.

Published monthly by
the Trinity Trust, 134
Ballard’s Lane, N.3.

Published monthly by
the Communist Party
of Great Britain, 16
King Street, W.C.2.

Published monthly by
the Young Communist
League, 16 King
Street, W.C.2.

A pro-Chinese Com-
munist periodical
published monthly
from 33 Anson Road,
N.7.

Published monthly by
the China Policy
Study Group, 85
Holden Road, N.12.

Published daily by the
Daily Worker Co-
operative Society Ltd.,
75 Farringdon Road,
London E.C.1.

Published monthly from
41 Croftdown Road,
N.W.5. Claims to be
an official organ of the
Malayan Communist
Party.

Publication Country of Origin Description andPublisher

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Publication Country of Origin Description andPublisher

Miners International
News

The Worker … …

Culture and Life …

Moscow News …

New Times … …

Soviet Union …

Soviet Woman …

Tass and Novosti

International Affairs

United Kingdom …

United States of America

U.S.S.R. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

do. … …

The organ of the T.U.I.
of Miners, published
by W.F.T.U. Publica-
tions, believed,
monthly in London.

Published weekly by the
Publishers News
Press, Inc., New York.
An organ of the
C.P.U.S.A.

Published monthly in
Moscow by the Union
of Soviet Societies for
Friendship and
Cultural Relations with
Foreign Countries.

do. … …

Published weekly from
16/2 Gorky Street,
Moscow.

Published monthly in
Moscow from 8
Ulitsa Moskrina,
Moscow K.9.

Published monthly in
Moscow by the Soviet
Women’s Committee
and the Central
Council of Trade
Unions of the
U.S.S.R.

Official releases.

Published monthly by
the All-Union Society
“Knowledge”.

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All publications of World Peace Council (W.P.C.).
All publications of World Federation of Trade Unions, (W.F.T.U.) and the Trade

Departments (Trade Unions International or T.U.I.’s) of W.F.T.U.
All publications of World Federation of Democratic Youth (W.F.D.Y.).
All publications of International Union of Students (I.U.S.).
All publications of Women’s International Democratic Federation (W.I.D.F.).
All publications of World Federation of Scientific Workers (W.F.S.W.).
All publications of International Association of Democratic Lawyers (I.A.D.L.).
All publications of World Federation of Teachers’ Union (F.I.S.E.).
All publications of International Organisation of Journalists (I.O.J.).
All publications of International Radio and Television Organisation (O.I.R.T.).
All publications of International Federation of Resistance Fighters (F.I.R.).
All publications of International Medical Association (I.M.A.).
All publications of Peace and Socialism Publishers, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
All publications distributed by Peace Book Company, Hong Kong.
All publications of the Trade Union Publishing House, Moscow.

Publication Country of Origin Description andPublisher
Quotations from

Chairman Mao Tse
Tung

Tricontinental Bulletin

Guyana Information
Bulletin

People’s Republic of
China

Cuba … …

Guyana … …

Published by Foreign
Languages Press,
Peking.

Published by the
Executive Secretariat
of the Solidarity with
the Peoples of Africa,
Asia and Latin
America, P.O. Box
4224, Havana, Cuba.

Issued by the
Information Bureau
of the People’s
Progressive Party,
F r e e d o m H o u s e ,
4 1 Robb Street,
Georgetown.

All publications of the Foreign Languages Press, Peking, China.
All publications of the Foreign Languages Publishing House, Hanoi.

113/1967.

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