CHILE: THE REPRESSION GOES ON rule, faced with growing economic chaos, mass starvation, mote than 20% unemployment, and intiation which for basic food products has now topped 1000% since the coup. Any casing of the repression would lead to an immediate spontaneous outburst reflecting the growing inflvence of the resistance.
That the resistance is growing by the reaction to the death of MIR the walls of many popular areas, and Who mosexuals MIR's paper, El Rebelde, has recently to murder gays.
The numben of Popular Resistance Committees - in the factories, shanty The declaration of support for the will not erase this reality, Indeed, it only helps to underline the junta's real political intentions, It also shows how criminal are the illusions peddled by the reformists of an alliance with the In contrast to the icformists willingness to compromise is the position who have essary to remain in Chile and to org anise a solid resistance without giving the junta the slightest room for manA common feature of fascism wherever it oocurs is its intensification and utilisation of the sexuel oppression of 'normal' the glorification of the nucleer family to its ultimate degree - and of course the main sufferers of this arn women and This in Nazi Germany the number of homosexual murdered in the conc thousanos - and simularly in spoin the fascists ser up special axecution squads This horrific patter is now being CHOCHIN SI CHIRIT WHE MICHOAR that even before the coup the slogans of the fascists were noi only directed st Allende's communism' but also claimed that Allende and all the leaders of Pod Fland'. ular Unity ware manicones - a Spanish word similar to faggot. This was antirely predictable, for in the 1950; the extreme right wing Ibanez regime had hundreds of homosexuals drowned in the Pacific - mainly by sinking them in bostlonde After the coup, the junta claimed to ures showing Allende engaged in homo sexual acts with Fidel Castro. More vicious is the fact that scores of homomurdered by military squads - and, in the case of male homosexuals, castrated The Homosexual Liberation Front of Argentina has issued a world-wide declaration calling upon Chilean gays to join the socialist resistance, and calling for whatever assistance Latin American and world-wide gay communities can give to help tham. The declaration states: "The death of Lola Punales la well-known Santiago gay activisti shows us once again that to be homosesual is a man ifestation of human afirmation and dignity that the fascists cannot underIn Britain today the National Front hes similarly, in its championing of the family, declared war on homosexusis. To fight this means tighting serism which in turn meens full and active support to the demands of the women's and gay movements.
Steve Coben