recruited since the coup.
When Dennis Hills, a white lecturer, was recently threatened with the firing squad in Uganda, royal ambassadors and the Foreign Sec- strictest clandestinity. retary scurried to save his life. But activity is much reduced. not a finger is lifted by the British Government to save black freedom fighter Desmond Trotter. Britain is in fact now poised to uphold team Desmond's sentence through the decision of the Privy Council, to be posed.
We therefore urge all labour, trade union, student and black organisations to give their support But the MIR has survived. The slogans on the walls bear witness to this, as do the tiny stickers left here and there in public places. So also do its militants, who for several months have been reactivating its work in one of the main shantytowns of Santiago, setting up several groups of sympathisers; as does the group of militant workers who were in the Communist Party under Popular Unity and have been Smaller in numbers - in relation to its size at the time of the coup — the MIR is not however in a position to capitalise on its growing prestige. The very conditions of political activity today in Chile mean that most of its militants spend the bulk of their time ensuring that the organisation continues to function in the As a result, outside The organisation is weaker politically as well as numerically. A large section of its best cadres - notably the core of its leadership - are dead or in prison at a time when crucial political problems are or will inevitably selves as critical supporters of MAPU, and also on many militants in the Communist Party, would be very different.
That is the perspective put forward by our comrades of the Liga Comunista de Chile in the resolutions of their second congress held recently underground in Chile (see Red Weekly, 15 May 1975). The remarkable activity of this little nucleus of Trotskyist mil itants, their progress over the last few months. together with the heroic and difficult resistance of the MIR, are not without significance in the present situation in Chile Defeat and repression, betrayals and manoeuvres - these have all failed to do the job. The flame of the revolution has not been extinguished in Chile Cyprus pamphlet AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH TURKISH GREEK CYPRUSANATOMY Of