Guerile sogens are doubed on the wallr as demonstrators decide do relesse prisoners chewselver NAME…. masses forward (rejecting calls by the union bureaucrats or the Peronist parlamentarians to 'wait"), and develop independent organisations of the masses, including armed organisations, to carry on the light against the army and prepare for the establishment of proletaPeru It is absolutely essential that the independence and integrity of the armed organisations are defended against the government. We in Britain must be prepared for a campaign to support the comrades of the People'a Revolutionary Army from the provocations and altacks that the Peronist burcaucracy may well Inunch in the next lew months.
(British Section of the Fourth Internationai) 182 Pentonville Road, London N.1. 1 would like more infor mation abour che IMG and its activities. Nikolic, Paviuso Insirovie and Jelka Kljajic — have now been in jail for 1B months. Originally tried and jailed last year, their appeais have been continuaily postponad by the Yugoslav regime Ir is understandable that the Yugoslav bureaucracy should be unwilling to draw attention to this case ai present. It is faced with an acute economic crisis which has resulted in a massive export of labour, a million unem ployed, rampant inflation, a chronic housing shortage and cut-bacas in social airbicos and eduction. Thi number of strikes is on the increase. And, the technocratic layer, which has thrived on the trends towards a market economy, is now also a threat to the position o the bureaucracy. The latter has therefore engaged in a spate of 'lefe" propaganda against "bureaucratism', "'tech notacy!, 'unjustified enrichment' etc. - but without spacitying how to ast rid of them.
In fact the only people who have made such an analysis are the revolutionary marxists - now accused by the bureaucracy of a 'criminal ideology'. As Nikolic has witten from his prison cell! "There can be no socialism under a market economy subject to vicious competition; socialist democracy and sell-menagement cannot be built at the same time as the representative role of the state grows; workers" self-menagement is meaningless without workers taking part anal amparant dos making and with a ruting party completely outside the warkers" control... We believe that a humane and demo trafic socielism, real self-management, cannot bi achieved except by freeing the creptive ability of the masses and that this requires the freedom of scientific research, the troe dissemination of ideas, the right 1o express different opinions and conceptions on the way Aleady many figures in the international socialist and the Yugoslav government protesting at the regime's attempt to silence its merxist critics, Copies of the letter are available from: Yugoslav Defende Committen, c/o 182 Pantonville Roed, London N.1 The wew of arrests receotly um deshed agalist ravorut ionaries in Peru, reporned twa weeks ago in Red Woekly, is just one part of widespreed attack on the working class movement. This attack in bering carried out by the revolutionary military govermert headed by General Velasco Alvarado, which cook power four years ago. Ar shar time the government alained that it would follow popular and anti-imperialist policies and promied land reform.
Recent events at one of Peru's riches copper mines, Cuajone, indicere that the Periwian working class is rapidly losing aury fusions it may have hed in the Valasco regime. The Coajone mine is owmed by Americar capital, Last December, some 700 milen working on new excavations were laid off, and then eweted from their company-awned houses. The warkers refused to lave the mine, and the company retaliared by stopping any money or supplies reaching in January the worker tanched a hunger-strike in protest, and on 5 March they marchad to the prowin ciat centre of Arequipa to present chair demanda to the focal euthoririas. The government replied by arresting the secracary of thair trade umion and deporting him to Parama.
Dr cariy May a three day goneral strike war deabred in support of the miners in the city of Moques and the following week, afrar government troops had arresred four more trade wrion Madiers, tra strike wave spreed througho ut the southern part of the country. The strusgle was a bloody one, with doane wo und ad and a large number of arreste macte. in the vicinity of Araguipe workers rapiled by dinamiting twa bridges and setting up barricades to prevent the police from moving in.
The lefe face of the Peruvian military dietatorship is now exposed for the phony mast ir has advays been. The fight of the Cuajone miners, and the wave of solidarity suruglas ir har touched off, shaws the why forward to mobilising the Parivian masmis for the destruction of this goverament.
Red Weekly 15 June 1973 Page 7
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