https://iclfi.org/pubs/pamphlets/icc-ig-lm/appx-socorro
Below is a May 15 letter Socorro wrote retracting remarks she made at the May 14 NYSL local meeting. The same day this letter was received, she was expelled for her local meeting remarks despite this retraction.
15 May 1996
To the comrades
I have been thinking about the NY local meeting of last night and my comments at it regarding the trial. When I spoke on the round, I was thinking about the unfairness of recent events, including the trial and related bizarre comments. Anger welled up inside me and I just lost it.
When I said the men who abducted and raped me got more justice from the bourgeois courts than I did from the trial, this was very wrong, as was calling the trial body a kangaroo court. I withdraw this. And certainly I do not think that there is justice in the bourgeois courts.
I still think the trial was unfair and protest the way it was carried out, and insist that I did not violate discipline on May Day and have told the truth about the events of that day. But again, this does not justify the comments that I made.
Communist greetings,
[signed]
Socorro
