[AS THOUSANDS marched last weekend on the tenth…]

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AS THOUSANDS marched last weekend on the tenth anniversay of the brutal military coup in Chile, General Pinochet's troops and riot police were again in action against workers and youth staging their own increasingly confident protests against the junta.

The death toll of demonstrators since May this year has now risen to 55 — while horrific accounts have emerged of the torture and rape Unrepentant, General Pinochet delivered a hard-hitting anniversary speech in which he insisted that he would remain in office until 1989. His ability to survive that long will depend upon the speed with which the reviving Chilean workers' movement is able to regroup and gain in confidence after the devastating slaughter and represswhile management attempt to break an NGA recognition dispute.

NUJ officials stood firm in defiance of the injunction, and refused to withdrawl the union's official support for its members.

As a result the NUJ on Friday 16th faces a further legal action and a probable heavy fine for contempt of court: and next week Messenger newspapers are pursuing court action for a more permanent injunction, together with a writ for the sequestration (seizure) of the assets of the union.

If the union continues to stand firm and refuses to pay the fine, aghty was threatened with fines or jail for his courageous stand in organising supporting action for the health workers: but the legislation used was Prior's 1980 Act _ and the EETPU as a whole was not in the dock.

The Tebbit Act, however, goes further in its efforts to stamp out solidarity action. As NUJ Assistant Secretary Bob Norris told Socialist Organiser, *"Tebbit wants unions to disMercury business network -and secondary blacking of the companies which form the Mercury consortium.

This line of action, instituted by the POU's Broad Left dominated National Executive, has now come under attack from right wing General Secretary Bryan Stanley, who attempted to get the blacking lifted, arguing that it infringes Tebbit's 1982 Act.

If Stanley's approach is accepmobilisation of the membership of the unions in defence of their organisations.

The talks with Tebbit must be called off: resolutions to this effect should bombard the Exeof many of those arrested. cutive of every union. And the trade union and labour movement as a whole - particularly in the printing industry -should prepare for the necessary solidarity action to defend the Tion of the last ten years.

NUJ and the NGA from the attacks of the Tory courts.

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Socialist Organiser no.146 September 15 1983 Page 2