(Movement of the Revolutionary Left), was recently smuggled out of Chue, Enriquez has asked for its widest possible distribution at a time when solidarity movements are developing aff over the world which 'omit to mention the militants who are most hounded", ie the revolutionery left, and particularly the MIR. Enriquez, for example has a price of 500,000 escudos on his head and is, along with Socialist Party secretary Carlos Altamirano; the most wanted man in Chile.
While the Fourth International has a number of political disagreements with the leadership of the M/R, we consider it to be an elementary duty of internationalist solidanity to publicise as widely as possible the initiatives, declarations, and political positions of the M/R, in view of its dominant position within the extreme left in Chile.
Comrades, Fascism has imposed itelf in Chile, with the support of US imperialism and its sub imperiaiam en braci The dominant fascist sectors, the officers in the arimy and the reactionary extreme washin aun ubnorm suns volue sun aal ooo DUaHE kc ascl aa burki pabusu of capitalist domination in Chile.
Auc mogatic meed are nwe ran aouitd, Ov now etiet и shomanc peo alu nay been shot. The number of deed must amount to tems of thousnds, Nearly as many agoun are ostaled w conenon campo wnwr. corture n wietprso Parlement has been closed down.
The army has intarvaned militarily in the universities.
The woekers" organisations have been dissolved. Thousands of workers have been sacked. A roal system of foroed labour exists today. Wages have been frozen, Prices shoot upwards. The administrators named by the government to rün the factories are ihe lume owus Ih JUrer CInC U A state of siege exists throughout the country. The whole population is subject to the curfow and can ba hauled bofore a military tribunal as in time of war. The number of summery axecutions is increming, and a virtual pogram is baing Carrien uut acult SonanTI A regime which draws its inspiration from Nazi Germany rules Chile today. Comrades, It was neither the illinion that one can achieve socialism by conting on the passivity of the ruling dass and working within the framawork laid down by the bourgeoisie. The struggle has hardly started.
A battle has been lost, not the wer.
The working clame and the people, the left and the revolutionaries ane still power ful. The strugcle will be long and hard. Buf we ane sure of winning. From the truggle for tha restoration of democratie fredoms, today abolished by the dictatonhip, from the defonce of the standard of living of the masses, today under direct attack by fascism, uniting the whole left and the democratic sectors prepared to push forward the strupgio against the dictatorhsip, the mass movemens will reorganise itsolt, the popular resistance to the dictatorship in the country and in the towns will dawlop and grow.
This will lead to the overthrow of the dictatorship, to the restoration of democratie freudoms, and will open the way for a powerful revolutionary process involving the workars and paasants, which will culminate in the proletarien and socialist revolution. Comrades, The struggle of the Chileon working dass and people aginst the fascist military dictatorship is an integral pert of the struggle of the peoples of the world against Imporialism. The internationel soliderity of the socialist countries, of the democratio and revolutionary cauntrias and sectors, and particularly of the Cuban revolution and of the fraternal revolutionary movements in Latin America-the ERP in Argentina, the Tupamaros, and the ELN in Bolivia-has been and will continue to be fund I do not want to and without paying bribute to Salvader Allende, who grue hie sif in defence of his bollats, to the workers and to the militants of all the organisations of the loft, and in particular to our own militante who are dead, ara dying, or are imprisoned in the fight against the fasciet military dictatorship.
Name Dand with che Dae Oite ac a pawsae Published be Raisoerest far Red Meekh socialism, nor the proletarien revolution, nor the worker which GROWS
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