Apart from taking part in Sunday's demo, the IMG has also initiated such actions as this picket of British Leylan and working class leader, who has been arrested by the Chilean junta.
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Vitale for this achievement. state of his health, and the conditions under which he is being hold.
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victim of the Chilean military dictatorship. An International campaign has been launched by the Fourth Intornational, to free one of its militants, Luis Vitale, a prominent Marxist intellectual Although born in Argentina, comrade Vitale has been involved in the Chilean labour movement for nearly two decades. During the years from 1959-62 he was a member of the leadership of the CUT (Chilean Workers Federation-the Chilean equivalent of the TUC). He helped to draft the main resolutions presented to the first and second congresses of the CUT, especially the sections on agrarian reform, imperialism and the industrial At the time of his arrest he was Professor of History and Geography at the University of Concepcion. The first three volumes of his six-volume book "A Marxist Interpretation of the History of Chile" have been published. They have received wide acclaim, and have exerted a real influence on the teaching of history in Chile, It is feared that the junta-obsessed as it is with the purging of "Marxist ideas from Chile-may be out to punish Comrade Vitale was initially held in the infamous Santiago Sports Stadium, but there is no information on his present whereabouts. The Fourth International will be campaigning for his release, along with the release of the other working dass and socialist militants now held by the regime They will be trying to gain the support of broad forces to demand his release, and call for the right of organisations such as the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and delegations from trade unions in other countries, to visit him, and to ascertain whether or not he has been subjected to torture, the This campaign is very urgent, and it should be taken up immediately throughout the trade union movement and in the Universities in this: country. Letters demanding his release and permission for him to go abroad should be sent to the Childan Embassy at 12, Devonshire St., Demands should also be addressed to University administrations, that they offer Vitale a professorship, or a temporary academic post, and obtain from the British Government the right of political asylum for this AND MOTOR CORPORATION showrooms last Saturday, in protest at the company's gift of cars to the junta.