through the centre of Liverpool last Saturday in solidarity with the Chilean resistance.
The demonstration, organised by the Chile Solidarity Campaign, took place just three weeks afler an importart victory had been won with the refusal of the Labour Government to attend the Club of Paris negotiations on the junta's foreign debt. The junta has had to respond by asking for the for an indefinite period.
This is undoubtedly a serious blow for the military regime, whose econ omic credibility is becoming increasIngly thin. But the Labour Government did not take this action out of some new-found feeling of international solidarity. They were quite happy to engage in the same talks a year ago. What has changed, of course, is that the campaign of solidarity with the Chilean resistance has J3SUU.
FRIGATE can be seen by a number of recent events. In the very same week that junta paper in Chile, El Mercurio.
frigates to the Chilean navy seat with the express consent of the Labour Goverament. There are stall That there has been no real change of heart by the Labour Government the withdrawal from the Club of Paris talks was announced, the leading pro carried an article announcing the handing over of one of the British-made This warship had of course been two submarines at the Scott Lithgow Meanwhile, at the ON Commission on Human Rights-which the Government presumably thinks i sufficientty tar away for its goings-on to escape movement-Britain was busy putting Chilean junta was becoming more lib sent to ascertain the precise extent of -Fortunately even the UN Commission could not fall for such a blatant delegation and deleted all reterence to The fact is that as the economic ever more intense. Particularly serious pool demonstration was an important Part of Saturday's mass rally in Liverpool in solidarity with the Chilean resistance is the emergence of secret prisons' which we will expose in detail in a fu- demonstrations on their own are not ture report. Yet the Labour Government still maintains full diplomatic links with the generals regine.
This complete servility to imperial ent which must be made to contrib ist interests not only helps to enhance ute to this is the proposed TUC conthe international credibility of the Chilean butchers, but is also having sefere consequences for the hundreds months ago to call this conference. of refugees in Britain. The junta natu- But since then nothing has been heart rally uses its diplomatic stait to spy un, intimidate and infiltrate the tefugees and the solidarity campaign. At present this is dont with the de facto blessing of the Labour Government All this underlines the need for the the task of organising a total boycott solidarity campaign to continue to develop independent actions and mo- to fall in our elementary duty to the worse, so its repression of the Chilean bilisations against the role of the Lab- Chilean workers and peasants our Government on Chile, The Liverstep forward in that campaign-but enough. We must also organise action which will actually deal concrete blows to the junta's regime. One evference on Chile The TLC made a decision some of it bot even a proposed date. Trad union branches up and down the country must demand that the conference be held immediately, and most importantly that i sets itself of all Chilean trade. Anything less is Gerry Corby