Since the dissolution of the Uruguayan Conpress on 27 June, President Bordaberry and his factories and oll refineries, they have so far army supporters have made every attempt to crush the peneral strike movement they im. mediately faced.
The trade union federation (CNT) was dissolved work: but despite forcible re occupations of failed and the regime was last week driven to offer a 50% wage increase in the hope of buying off the strike (it was rejected, on the grounds that it would still not restore real wages to the level of five years ago). But while the Uruguayan workers maintain a heroic strugple on the streets and in the factosweeping guarantees to foreign capital and proclaimed Marxisin a disease to be wiped out But in the present crisis they may be prepared to ditch him so long as control of the government remains in the hands of the army -whose political ascent dates trom two years ago, when they were given the task of exterminating the Tupomaros, the left-wing urban guerrila movement The tactical choice facing the ruling class is to accept this kind of solution" or to proceed directly along the Brazilian road, In either case, Ferreiras and the army chiofs, the Druguayan Stalinists are preparing a musive betrayal of