cessity of even greater importance' Even among the armed forces the cument declares, "the people will id allies". And what is to be the nect of the broad front? The cument explains that, 'all democis must march together to achieve, se struggle for a renovated democracy' hich it says, 'is the only road that Il lead the proletariat and its lies to construct,... a socialist ciety STRATEGY REPEATED This is simply a repeat of the rategy of the UP under Allende. ne revolution is to take place by ages, first a democratic antiperialist stage and then, sometime in e future, the socialist stage But e UP experience showed that no ch middle road exists, just as the intradictions which led to the up broke out under Allende's. periment so they would break out ain under the renovated democracy There is though one point of fference. The 1 May document arts from the need for an alliance ith the bourgeois CD, whereas iring the UP period this was mething which the CP always Ivocated but never managed • get the UP to adopt.
The Chilean CP wishes to serve p the same recipe as belore, ith the added ingredient of explicit ass collaboration with the very arty that prepared the UP's downIL. It is a'course which must be miy rejected.
Revolutionaries in Chile must stead fight for a united front against e junta on a class basis. A united ont of workers, peasants and other pressed layers must be created.
footnotes Socialist Party had 260,000 members and claims to be marxist. Its left-wing clams to be revolutionary bul it 1s Movemeut for United Popular Action is a split-away from Christian Democrats.
split into right wing - known as MAPE-OC and left wing, probably the majority, known a MAPU - Gareton MAPL-OC is very clase to CP. Befare coup total member ship was about 30,000.
The Commutst Party Had mamborship 01 100.000 with a bamber ol tennesent. its in Alende Covernment and on micst questions was to the ripht of the Socialist 120CE.
The first organisation to hold an underground conference in Chile was tie / Liga Comunists de Chile 1CC, sympath /ising section of the Fourth International.
The ICC has produced a number of #leaflets which have been clandestinely circulated and has done some joint actgivities with comrades from the MIR.
Documents from the March 1974 con ference are now being translated. Copies can be obtained fom Red Books 97 Caledonian Road, London N.I.
develop and extend revolutionary organs of democratic mobilsation and organisation of the masses, such an the Cordones Industriales tive after the overthrow of the junta cannot be one of s long stage of "democ ratie capitalism during which gradual advance will be made to the socialist millenium. Instead it will be a period of rapidly developing crisis.
Either the working class will organise to achieve the conquest of power during this period or the bourgeoisic will impose its solution again - and the workers and peasants will once more pay dearly.
If the 1 May document of the UP becomes the guidlines for the struggle against the junto then further defeats are inevitable. It is only by workers ation - thal the junta can be smashed.
It is only by fighting against the junta not for 'democracy"
of the struggle for socialism, that a victory of the working class can be ensured:
Monicato de Iquierda Rowdlu clanana. Borore coap pan 4000 menners Before clection of Unidad Popular had declared situation could only be resol ved by puerille warfar. MIR then, lawever, pave Allende critica support. Main base of support in peasantry and students but probably increasing its support in STONS DE WOEKIDE CHUS DOW Tahio Neruda was an elderly poet and CP member who died shortly after the coup. was strong supporter of Allende Goverment.
Cordones Industriales were orginis ations formed to combat the "boss"
strike of Detoher 1972. They unitod workers to run the factorios, arrange distroution of loon an torin selfdejeper against bobscs attempts to scab, ing our this violence to try and literate any attempts by lie forces: Frightened of spontanein the last tew weeks ing class against the junta class is beginning to be croded.
The perspecits bloody intage.
ised a semblance of 'normal justice.
September was unprecedented. sisters in Chile.
Hunter jet engines bound for Chile. Merseyside dockers refused to handle Chilean cargo.
downturn home the isolation of the junta and encourage the mobilisation of the Chilean resistance.
outside Chile. but in the context springhoard for the campaign. working class tu reorganise their ous demonstrations on the anniverISOLATION This testifies to the weakness of the Pinochet regime and shows its isolation - an isolation created by the international revulsion of the workThe desperate cconomic crisis in Chile is also provoking masone dis content in the middle classes who originally supported Pinochet. The junta's former base in the middle To break out of its growing isolation the junta has to wipe away The deaths in the concentration camps, the bullet in the back of the head, have to be "lepalThe charade of trials now taking place an Sanliago are aimed to institutionalise the daily terror and the military courts are put on to present The world-wide response to i1 Hundreds of thousands of workers and students came together in muss incetines, demonstrations and other actions to protest the overthrow of The book-burning in Chile goes on - even books on the Cubist school of art have been banned, 'lest the ideas of Castro gain a hold' ! International solidarity could help the workers' movement reassert itself.
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sary of the coup, the dictators have rounded up hundreds of unlitants