of the Chilean generals and has granted diplomatic recognition Council have called for the to this butchers" regime, even before the last gunshots have died blacking of work on the two tration camps around Santiago, in an attempt to crush the Chilean workers movement once and for all.
by the whole British labour movement at the ruthless brutality These events have had a big impact op the British working class movement. The death of stration. the cherished parliamentary road in Chile has shaken the of left of the labour movement labour movement on the quesin a way that the murders by British imperialism in Ireland have failed to do.
On Monday, a meeting that inc. luded delegates from the Transport and General Workers Union, the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, London Trades Council, the National Union of Students. the Communist Party and the International Marxist Group, decided to set up the Chile Solidarity Campaign Committee. which will campaign for solidarity with all those fighting the Junta.
The meeting also called for creation of broad based local campaign committees in every area projected national solidarity demonstration in London The Tory Goverment has chosen to ignore the indignation felt eption.
early November.
These committees must take But this can best be done if there is a high degree awareness throughout the tion of Chile. It is therefore essential to launch a massive propaganda campaign, and to organise local actions around such things as the blacking of all Chilean trade and stopping of work on the Chilean warships being built or re-fitted in this country.
The T&GWU has called for an international boycott of Chilean trade. The Hull dockers have already imposed a ban on all Chilean trade passing through their port. T&O members should not organise systematic should now organise systematic blacking at every single dock and airport in the country. Britain is busy working on warto mobilise for a ships for Chile. On Wednesday. • Chilean submarine was launched at Scott-Lithgow's on the picketed the gates and the recThe Wallsend Labour Party and South Shields Trades Chilean destroyers being fitted at. Wallsend. people, including IMG members from several parts of the North, marched to the yard last Saturday.
Many of the worker in the shipyards are reluctant to black: the warships for fear of redundancy and victimisation. They not sufficiently aware of SLEE the importance of international working class solidarity to put these fears aside. This problem can be met by mobilsiing the trade union movement to ple acking work or goods for Chile These military contracts indieate the ties that exist between the Chilean military and British imperialism. It is not surprising that the Tory Government was so eager to recognise the new But if the Generals have their firends among the British ruling class, we must show the embattled Chilean Chilean troops restore order" the pious motions moved by the
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as their central task mobilisa- tion for the November demon-
G SPEAKER: PIERRE ROUSSET (farmer member of Political Buresu of the Communist League) 70 people, including IMG mil- itants, and workers from UCS,
dge full practical support for any workers attacked for bl