IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

CHILE: REIGN OF TERROR RED NOTES

Red Weekly No. 21, 5 October 1973 · p. 8 of the scan · 693 words

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providing further evidence of the terror which the new military Junta has unleashed on the people of Chile, out all political opposition, The trade The correspondent of the American magazine Newsweek reports having seen the bodies ol two hundred workers, shot through throat, in a Santiago morgue. He was told that almost 3000 corpses had ersities have all been closed down. passed through the morgue in the Meanwhile, the Junta has been proceding with the task of stamping union federation (the CUT) has been dissolved and all the Popular Unity parties outlawed. The technical colleges, and the sociology, journalism, and education faculties of the univSpecial officials have been appointed being carried out on Chilean warships in area. Support for the 4 November demo was also unanimously agreed. LIVERPOOL A committee has been set up with the support of Liverpool Trades Council, le has called a demonstration for 3 Novem ber, and will organise the checking of goods moving to or from Chile, passing the necessary information to shop stewards un the docks.

ROTHERHAM sub-committee to organise activity in solidarity with the Chilean strugele. A public meeting is planned, and the sub-committee will campaign for broader support within the abour movement in the Sheffield/ Rotherham area.

CARDIFF The campaign in South Wales got off to a bad start when the Cardiff CP organised a meeting al which the Cl, Labour Part and Plaid Cymru (Welsh nationalists) spoke, but members of IMG and IS who spoke were sibjected to inter ruptions from the chairman. They would have been prevented from speaking at all by the military to take charge of the political purging of the universities, are the object of un intense bunt th The general secretaries of the Socialist and Communist Parties, Carlos Altamirano and Luis Corvalan, have not been killed, as was previously reported. However, Corvilan has fallen into the hands of the military and fares imminent execution. Altamirano and many other left wing leaders roughout the country.

International solidarity in defence of the Chilean workers and peas ants is urgently needed. A major campaign must be mounted to expose the terror being waged by the Junta, and to Iry and save Luis Corvalan and other left-wing militants from the firing squads. Workers at the Reeding firm of Adwest Engineering have stopped an attempted victimisation, following their successful sit-in strike. On Monday euening, women on the twilight shift at Western Thampson, the assocated firm which was out in sympathy, were told there wes no work However only the women who had. sup ported the strike were sent home, scabs TATE HISEN MIS Next morning, the day shift workers walked out at 9:30, and by 11.30 a witlement had been reached. The wo men who had been turned aney were paid for the shift, and although thare will not be a twilighr shift this week workers will be restarted on the basis of seniority, as work for the shift is built up Who shat Tommy Herron? No one has claimed responsibility, but the Dublin review Hiberia comes up with an impres sive list of clues. The killers were profes sionals, he was killed by one bullet, just behind the ear, and his head was covered with his jadcat to minimise the mess when his brains were blown out. Healthar knew his killers, or they had lawful authority to compel him to anter the car in which he was driven to his death. The murder ocurred during the Heath wait, thus cutting down the publicity, Journaliste have compared the timing with that of the Dublin bombings, and the bomb which exploded in Claudy at the time of Operation Motormen. In othar words, lan Paisley, and the UDA Press Officer, who have practically named the SAS, are on the right track.

Mrs Peggy Chaston, the Reading housewife who has launched a pention demanding the withdrawel of British Troops from the North of Ireland, has heen the target of a Black Propaganda awercise. The Read ing Chronicie of September 21st reports that she has received a letter purporting to come from Sinn Fein thanking her: an behalf of the IRA for her help in dethat-

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