Chile Solidarity Campaign demonstration at Downing Street on Friday. It & only by demors trating in practice that the working class will not tolerate any link swith the junta that Callaghan can be compelled to take the necessary steps* WOMEN DEMAND ACTION ON COUNCIL'S CHARTER until troops and police moved in.
tinuing repression and daily growing resistance in Chile that the National None of the demands of the campaign have ver been scurco —the British Ambasador is still in Chile, aid and trade continue, before the end of the have shown the way to fight for thea Chilean goods at Liverpool and the refusal of workers at Rosyth and Portssupport from dudent and trade union mouth to service Chilean warships have The Landon Trades Council Jas thrown away an important opportunity to begin the organisatien of women around the One of the three ex-ministers of the class solidarity Popular Unity who was due to stand trial in Santiago-Jose Toba-is now reported by the junta to have 'com mitted suicide in a military hospital.
His funeral was the occasion of one of the first open demonstrations of mass resistance to the junta. It was attended by 3,000 people who began to chant a number of political slogans It is against this background of conCampaign meets this Saturday, 23 March.
month the Chub of Paris will be discussing Joans to the junta, and refugees from Chile are still not being admitted into Britain. so act at ouce.
BLACKING But a number of important actions demonstrated the possibilities of working JNT "The Taulure of the trade unson bureaucracy to offer any conerete support to these actions only shows the urgent need Tor a conference of tank and file workers blacking can be extended but also how to organise throughout the labour movement to prevent the isolation of workers who do black Chilean trade.
The need to force the Labour Government to break all links with the junta makes being assimilated for the future? Or are much actions even mone песеати. lor it is only by demonstrating in practice that the working case will not tolerate any links with the junta that Collaghen can be compelled to take the necessary steps.
the junta is now preparing, an immediate campaign must also be taken up for the release at all pollts prisoners Bi 35 Do used to brag negatons! pressure to hear upon the Labour Maders LESSONS OF COUP But it is equally important that alongside our solidarity activity there the lessons of the coup. This is essential not only because the Chilean events have a significanoe which extends far beyond the borders of Chile, but aise because they are inseparably bound up with the present and future course of events.
Now that this struggle against the Junta is beginning to develop and take on wounte Tomns, the orientaco adopted by the parties of the Chilean porking class hecomes vital.
Are the lessons of one of the heaviest defeats of the intemational working class we going to see the same mistakes being Topootou, wim tie development otche struggle being subordinated to the search for an alliance with the Chrissian Democ cats a hourgeois party at present apposed to the junta's policies for its owa sectional masons?
The overwhelming importance of these questions demands an immediate and open debate on the leans of the coup and the way Jarward now, In the coming weeks, Red Weekly will carry a series of articles contributing to this. If the Action Conference with a workshop devoted to the lasom of the coup - succeeds in taking the first steps towards such an open debate, as well as deciding on con crele forms of solidarity, nuch will have been achieved.