The mine of Paipete, 10 werkers tained for what the newspaper urie called 'passive sabotage'. The had started te work extraerdinary defiance of the military interThe local unien leaders were subly banished to the nerthern eity t are the medium term pectives of the LC? our links with other political organisations (notably the MIR and the co-ordination of the Socialist Party inside Chile. And we hope that in the medium term this will help to build not just the LC but the whole resistance movement.
The examples of resistance boxed above are taken from Chile: News of the Mes/stance, the exterior bulletin of the MIR - available price 37p (inc. postage) from Red Books, 97 Caledonian Road, London N.1. ical prisoners.
other the police fighting for democratic rights.
And this is why even their highly moderate programme of reforms comes unstuck: it is based on the maintenance of this engine of repression, while the engine drivers do not share the desire for reform'. These latter forces constitute the backbone of the 'die-hard' right-wing faction in the the powerful political and para-military police, the top officials of the State-run trade unions (the biggest enemy of the Spanish working class after the police), and other functionaries of the national and local machinery of the dictatorship. These make up very powerful opposition to the so-called liberals' in the regime, controlling as they do the Francoist "National Movement' and the armed repressive machinery of the dictatorship. From these positions they can not only put up a bitter fight inside the regime to slow down efforts at change, but they can also effectively sabotage any moves that are made without their agreement This is, in fact, what they have been doing over the past few weeks. No sooner had Juan Carlos tried to prove his COUNT OF MOTRICO-Franco's ambassador liberal intentions by letting a token number of prominent political prisoners out of jail (while keeping the vast majority still inside, of course) than the police rearrested two of the most prominent and unleashed a brutal wave of attacks on demonstrators demanding a real amnesty for all politOne of those rearrested, the Communist workers leader Marcelino Camacho, has since been released; but the King has had to agree to the continued imprisonment of the - worker-priest Padre Paco Garcia. At the same time aided by 'unofficial' fascist thugs - have been brutally cracking down on strikers and demonstrators