after the June 1943 coup in Argenmember, be had a very good underthe working class.
Second World War, and the demand for Argentinien agricultural goods wilich followed it, to gain some workers. By combining this with tinu. Unlike the normal military junta standing of how to try to manipulate Peron used the conflicts of the independence from imperialism and on that basis give concessions to the "leftist" talk he hoped to prevent the growth of independent working class But in the carly 1950s the demand for Argentinian goods, and with it the prosperity of Argentinian capitalist wbich Peron had utilsed, began to decline. down agninst the workers morcment, Peron turned increasingly to allacking the workers. However Peron could not satisfy the ruling class either and the military removed him from office in 1955, ECONOMIC CRISIS Until 1968 the military remained farmly in control, bur the workers remembered the 'good old days' of Peron, Under the impact of a new economid chas thines bocan to po drastically wrome for the military In 1969 massive strikes developed in Cordoba, Rosaie and otber towns, and armed actions were developed by the People's Revolurionary Army (ERP) and other guerrilla groups. The army was afrad that these two developments aould fese, as they did locally in thie upbeaval in the whole of Atecotina. The arny's solution to chis was esentually to allow Peron to return last year, in the Filled. hope that he could get the workers hack But the 1970s are not the 1940s.
toom to bribe the workers. Ripht from Ene sarT Feron w'es laced with a workers upsure. Me dcalt will tais bran tecreas ing policy of repression - most recently in armet suppression acinet the workees movement in Cordoba and in the assassina- very great in a situation where the workine tion at working class leaders. This has lod beth to the strengthening of the nonPeronist revolutionary left, and to deep divisions berween left and right within reppesentative of the extreme right of Poroniam and will readily fill in with military demands for a barder crack Unfortunatdly the left in Argentins. while very big, has for the most part Lion. The Commanist Party in particular, following in the suicidal footsteps of its sister party in Chile, has simply appealed of democracy and national independence' which is rather like asking a liger to stop cating creat and live on grass insicad.
REVOLUTIONARIES
Among the revolutionaries the strongest foros is the ERP. In 1969-72, despite tactical errors, the ERT launched armod actions in a period when the Leninis:
the situation is passing through the upswing of a pre-revolutionary situation, but where the clashes with the ruling class are sproad out over a long period of time - were fulBut events showed that the ERP had nor launched those actions because of a clear understanding of revolutionary sitarery, but sinoly tor conteset and adept to the new ""omocratic" conditions WOeD Peron come to power class is still the most strongly organised in Latin America but where military repression is increasine and a dritt to cail war capable of develaping.
JAMES DOUGLAS Rod Weekly