Apart from their respective organisational situations, this is their real weakness. While the task of the hour for the Chilean workers' organisations can only be the recomposition and restructuring of the workers' movement on the basis of the three years of experience gained under Popular Unity, together with a radical balance-sheet of the defeat which resulted from it, the remnants of the SP are simply tearing themselves further apart with confused debates which often degenerate into conflicts of personality or authority.
The representatives of the 'co-ordinating committee of the SP inside the country are adherents of the 'left' faction. They are critical of the General Secretary, Altamirano, considering that his actions in exile have been opportunist. But that's nothing very much. They still see concessions and tactical alliances as necessary to maintain the unity of the party, and they do not question its global strategy The most over the last years in the framework of Popular Unity.
According to these comrades. it was necessaty in 1973 to go further and make fewer CONCESSICTS. ers, their massive arming. without any conviction. elsewhere, according to them. reformist orientation of the CP and the weight of this party in the working class.
tion of the Socialist Party).
The self-organisation of the work- speak is like being in another world.
•.. they agree, but *The problem was 'It was in the The Communist Party, for its part. applies almost as if nothing at all had happened. Its approach is to regroup all anti-fascists regardless of the Hence its hardly concealed support for the Christian Democrats, and the instructions given to its militants in various places to give concrete support to the Christian Democrats' greater. efforts to reorganise in the workers' movement.
More than ever, the leadership of the Communist Party blames the overthrow of Popular Unity on ultra-left actions both outside Popular Unity (the MIR) and inside it (a large secIn shifting the blame onto others in this way, and to satisfy their own consciences, rather than to draw the lessons of a reality which they have helped to shape and whose victims they have now become, they continue along the same roaa, down the same blind alley.
In such a situation the responsibilities and tasks facing revolutionary militants are even Not because they can in the short or medium term become an alternative to the power of the junta, but because on their role will depend - in the long term. unfortunately the possibility of victorious struggles by the Chilean workers.