Unconditional solidurity with the Chilean resistance and the organisation of solidarity movements are the first duties of revolutionaries abroad - of this there can be no doubt.
But this work must not blind us to the fact that within the Chilean resistance itself, profound differences exist on questions of strategy differences which are crucial to the future of the struggle and contain important lessons lot revolutionaries elsewhere. Discussion of these differences must of necessity be an important aspect of solidarity work.
To be sure, the parties of the resistance - both the MIR [Movement of the Revolutionary Lett] and those of Popular Unity - have issued joint unity appeals.
But these appeals correspond to what these parties betieve to be the needs of work outside Chile ments, the unified collection of funds, etc. They do not correspond to any unity that las boat achieved inside Chile despice L widespread desire for unity among the masses after the coup The opposition to the junta can be separated into three main componcots: LET USUETSHOOL HELMUST BITECTI party: the sections of Popular Unit organisationally and politically dominaled by the Communist Porty: and the revolutionary left, chiefly ibe MER, The vast moore of the bristlan • Democrat pare sopperted the counciller passively or actively. But the economic stratogy which the junta has since pursued.
has been formally dissoived be the junta dominated by opposition ulements. But it and not a force capable of leading the resistance to viciory In the last rusort, their Iear of ibu organised masses is greater than their they will seek to lend the resistance up. a blind alley for their own ends, nicat publicied in the French CP paper L. Homonite on 8 January this your) is the crcation of a united front of all democratle faroos" agarnst the junta, to work towards a national, majorily. democratic and piusalist goverament". the presentation af against the juneal, proposing instead simply the weapon of the peneral strike Incapable of preventing the coup, could overthrow a junta exercising complete of the State!
resistance under the kadership of the working class is subordinated by the CP to the formation of a united front" with the Christian Democrats pot with its largoly working class base, but with the capitalist leaderstup who supported the coup basically favouring the big monopolics, has led to deep suits within the capitalist class:
The Christian Democrat purty, which and forced into a course of illorality, is now i5 vital to rocognise this opposition for what it is - a defence of small tapitalist interests in it COMMUNIST PARTY The strategy of the Communist Party They rejoct civil war farmed struggle consol over the entire repressive apparates The independent organisation of t at this are that!
The Communist Party similarly cocouzapes its supporters to rely on thu democratic traditions of the army Hy this it incans not an appeal to the rank-and-file of the armed forces, but an attempt to feem so alliance with SOME OUR ONE CUTLET very office who either led the coup or tuke Geeral Pratst passively acquiesced This pelicy of allances corresponds мил сло пописа aim n down for t resistanes by the Communist Party simply a return to bourgeois democracy new lany this neans persuadine the capitalists that no threst to their class rule is invoived: in other words, signing over the interests of the workers and peasants to their exploiters.
Of course, the struggle around democratic demands will be an important ispost of the resistanco - but only as part of a broader proprannie in which the disaster, struggle against the junta and the straggle Tor sociulism une inextricably linked.
However, the Communist Party prefers instead to sim ntuch of its tire at the volutionary left. The latter, indeed, are accose or navene provoked too coup by their efforts to defend Allende's repiano by the only means possible - rise armed organisation of the masses in the cordones | faclory and neighbourhood REVOLUTIONARY LEFT Sharply counterposed to the CP's tine is the strategy of the revolutionary left (dominated by the MIR, but also including: soctions of MAPU and the Socialist Party as well as smaller groups). The male ands - The dictatorship will not fall simply as a result of its own cobtradictions -Any illusions that the junta will fall class, or that its orientation will be changud peacetully, can only lead to a second - Only u strupade undor the leadership or Die workers in the towns and country side the anly class cupable of assuming its methods of fighting and mainly the armed struggle of the masses, can lead to the overthrow of the dictatorship.
- The overthrow of the military die lalorship mast be seen as only an aspect of the struggle for the prolitarian revolution i salong these lines, and not along these put for ard by the Communist Party, that y successol struggle to overthrow the military janta and establish workers power in Chile will bo built. In a suhseguent article we with look at how the MIR specifically is shaping up to this task.
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