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The classic Marxist analy of Stalinism is Leon Trotsky's 'Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where It Going?' Available via Socialist Organiser, 28 Middle Lane, London N8: £2.50 plus 50p postage. was gaining strength, holding its first festival in 1969. The previous year the Young Communists set up their own alternative record company. Quilapayun and Victor Jara featured on the first two albums released.
The campaign for the Presidential Election, due in September 1970, was already getting underway. Committees of Popular Unity sprang up in every office, factory, neighbourhood and university. Every party in Fopular Unity had its own wall-painting brigades. Joan Jara put her newly formed Ballet Popular at the service of the election campaign and the leading singers of the New Chilean Song Movement did the same. The second festival of of the governinent and a lot of false hope was pinned on his presence in the government to secure the neutrality of the armed forces.