Chile
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-09-08Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 16 →
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CHILE. Ten years after the murderous military coup that ousted Salvador Allende's reformist 'Popular Unity' coali tion and installed Pinochet's US-backed junta, the very mention of Chile still strikes a chord in the international There have been other coups, crackdowns, waves of slaughter and repression in various T'hird World countries (and in Turkey) since then — each with its tragic toll of working class casualties and martyrs; but still Chile holds a special place — it is to the modern workers' movement almost what the crushed Spanish revolution was to the last It was a bitter and vivid example of the implacable hostility of US imperialism to governments which annoy the multinationals. It underlined the extent to which US administrations will go to undermine and destroy their chosen enemies — using the international banks and But the bankers and the generals are not all-powerful. If the Allende government — instead of trying to implement its reforms within the existing system - had been ready to arm the workers and mobilise the rank and file soldiers against the generals, then it could not have And today the Chilean working class is mobilising again. The tenth anniversary of the coup will be marked by huge demonstrations ir Chile. Already successive protests have forced the dictatorship onto the defensive. When the army shot down 26 people on the streets last Now Pinochet has been forced into 'talks about talks' with the The Democratic Alliance aims to reassure the generals and the capitalists that it has a 'safe' alternative to the junta. But it represents the top crust of the opposition - not the aspirations and inter ests of the workers and peasants in revolt against Pinochet.
Socialists in Britain have a duty to do all we can to support the Chilean workers. We can start with the Chile solidarity demonstration this Sunday, September 11 (Ipm from Clerkenwell Green). workers' movement.
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trading networks for this very purpose.
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