of the Chilean defeat the lessons are drawn which will ensure that never again does a working class have to suffer the 'peaceful road' to extinction. It is now an important task to form a united front of the revolutionary left inside Chile - a task which our comrades of the Liga Comunista de Chile have set as an important priority in their activities.
Such a front would form a clear political pole inside Chile - a means by which revoluto the class collaboration of the Popular Unity, a means by which fresh forces from the left Socialists, from the MAPU, even from the CP could be won to the revolutionary road.
It is important to see that the Chilean workers and peasants do not stand in isolation. The solidarity campaign that has been waged must be extended, and must increase the scale of its activities so that they can really weaken "They receive instructions against Chile (Pablo Neruda, 20th century Chilean poet. This prophetic poem was written in the late 1940s).
But we have to see behind all these, there is something behind the traitors and the gnawing rats, an empire which sets the table, and serves up the nourishment and the bullets. They want to repeat their great success in Greece Greek playboys at the banquet, and bullets for the people in the mountains: we'll have to destroy the flight of the new Victory of Samothrace, we'll have to hang, kill, lose men, sink the murderous knife held to us from New York, we'll have to ase fire to break the spirit of the man who was emerging in all countries as if born from the earth that had been splashed with blood We have to arm Chiang and the vicious Videla, give taem money for prsous, wills so they can bomb their own populations, give them a hand-out, a few dollars, and they do the rest, they lie, bribe, dance on the dead bodies and their first ladies wear the most expensive minks The suffering of the people does not matter: copper executives need this sacrifice: facts are facts: the generals retire from the army and serve as vice-presidents of the Chuquicamata Copper Firm. and in the nitrate works the 'chilean general decides with his trailing sword how much the natives may mention when they apply for a raise in wages In this way they decide from above, from the roll of dollars in this way the dwarf traitor receives his instructions, and the generals act as the police force, the junta Most vital of all is to understand that the Chilean workers and peasants do not stand in isolation from the rise of world revolution. In Latin America this has taken a particularly dramatic form with the outbursts of the genera strikes in Argentina; while in other countries, not least among them Brazil, a rise in the mass struggle is clearly discernible. There is no doubt that these events will immeasurably increase the resistance of the Chilean workers and peasants against their military tyrants
tember 1975