} iy cc,
i out the original ITT-CIA plan exposed

beatin Anderson papers and Watergate
thaos 8S. These plans called for creating
i. the economy of Chile to provide
Ta for an armed fascist coup.
Be age is being done to the Chil-
and heed by lockouts by truckowners
Then Tekeepers, as in October 1972
t
ee Production when workers must
Ment Ath Plants to defend the govern-
teeove ough voluntary labor has helped
T Part of the loss.

) pune 15 we found a major street
tt pa pe for a military drill by the fas-

esident ¢ y Libertad — renamed by
ohana Salvador Allende the Antipatria
They attar (Anti-country and Cowardice).
tefeng Cked a truckload of workers who
Lowy themselves and repelled the at-
shin Ore truckloads of workers were

the €y were on their way to protect
: lags crmMent buildings from fascist
veg ey once again, the workers
litany wa government, but the fascists
al The ot One youth and wounded sever-
4 tor or kers’ action took place during
fragt 1 downpour, in marked con-
strati St year when an important dem-
Uehtraine Was postponed because of a

8
terong year whole families of workers
tildten va together; this year, most
| {anger ‘ fre left at home because of the’
fy e fascist violence. The teenage
let year tS We met last summer seemed
Memberor® mature now.
Youth Tship in the Communist
‘ : a was between 50,000
1000 wis, -28t summer, is now above
| Ma for tte Goal of 100,000 by Nov. 25,
i Party or XV Congress of the Commun-
lege Chile. The population of Chile
On jn Omillion.
in close”? 2 military coup in Uru-
dy Workers! Congress and outlawed
gg): On th Unions and the Communist
ay SY blot Same day, in Chile, a fascist
hr nce ee
nis Seditious officers were held
iy Pawar 0, one armored regiment
(eeked © of the change in plans and
te Minis Presidential palace and de-
ea within "Sy on June 19. Significantly, .
bey, ent q IS regiment, there were
et the ¢-ceenders who died trying to
nis ponstist attack.
ny Stop th to a continent-wide CIA
Ba Move € anti-imperialist, ati-mon-
bytin bates’ which are gaining
NM’, Pen America. On July 5, 1973,
aed Perm the newspaper Unidad
Neo Conspine2"S to be alert, that ‘The
Tee, nde hand menaces us.”’
Rin doctors TPES in Chile by truck-.
ie, Ves = E and managerial-technical
te Ut bros 1 Teniente copper mine to
* Ptlap “ta and strike against
: “nity government fits right

Be

the loss was $200 million. Time is

B to the center of the city. We -

into the imperialist plot. Ever since the.
Allende government nationalized the
copper mines and dispossessed Kennecott
‘and Anaconda Copper, the Chilean reac-
tionaries have claimed that workers are
not capable of running the mines and want
the nationalized industry returned to the
former owners.

An intense ideological battle is being

- waged both without and within the Popu-

lar Unity Coalition. The major opposition
party, Christian Democrats, are in a
coalition with the fascists, but the Chris-
tian Democratic voters are mostly anti-

|fascist. Thousands of confused, middle- ’

class high school students have been used

|by the opposition to cause disorders in

‘the big cities, roaming aimlessly through
‘the streets. The Young Communists have
placed a series of effective ads in the re-
-actionary. papers, appealing to the: patri-
otic sentiments of these students. For
example, in one ad a student says, “I

_ choose to pass the course. Not to study is

easier than studying. To destroy is easier
than to build. I am not afraid to face my
responsibility to study and build for

_ Chile. For the country, for life. ..say no

to civil war.’”’ The Young Communists are
Chile’s largest youth organization!

| Within the Popular Unity Coalition the
ideological struggle is directed toward
maintaining unity in face of the fascist
attacks and achieving a central leader-
ship rather than different directives from
the separate party centers. The demand
for more unified direction has come from
CUT, la Central Unica de Trabajadores,
the 2-million strong trade union center
of Chile. Major parties in Popular Unity
are the Communist and Socialist parties,
but MAPU, Radical-Social Democratic
and Left-Christian parties also are signi-

ficant. Although the Communist Party

is united in support of the strategy ‘‘Pre-
vent Civil War,’’ which is exposing the

fascist plots, a few middle-class elements

in the other parties have become. im-
patient and are calling instead “for win-
‘ning the civil ‘war,’’ which seems to con-
cede in advance the most important anti-
fascist issue.

The Communist position, as stated by
Luis Corvalan, general secretary, in the
March 29, 1973, issue of El Siglo, is:

“We have never seen the road of the
Chilean revolution as one of mere electoral
campaigning. It is a road of constant en-
counters and grim class battles in which
the fundamental thing is mobilization and

struggle of the masses and efforts to raise.

their revolutionary consciousness. But it is
certain that on this basis we can expect to
win over the majority of the population,
and ensure that the majority of the elec-
torate votes for Popular Unity. This will
depend on several factors, above all on
how we solve today’s -and this year's
cardinal problem, that of achieving politi-
cal cohesion and unity in economic man-

agement to overcome difficulties and carry
forward our revolution. . .our primary duty
is to support the government in all cir-
cumstances, against every attempt to over:
throw it.”

The basic economic difficulties result
from the underdevelopment and years of
imperialist robbery of Chile. Ten billion
dollars were drained out of Chile, leaving
the people with a huge external debt, the
need to import food and a severe shortage
of housing and technology.

But other difficulties are purely politi-
cal, such as CIA sabotage and hoarding
and speculation. The Congress, which is
under reactionary control, has refused to
pass Allende’s tax the rich budgets or to
pass laws punishing black market food
speculators. At the same time the gov-
ernment had to spend large sums to pur-
chase land.for agrarian reform and to
nationalize industry, even though they
did not pay the big copper companies
which owed Chile money for excessive
illegal profits. . -

The inflation which has resulted from

increased government* expenditures and’

decreased production is worsened by
black market speculation and political-
ly inspired artifical ‘‘shortages.’’ The
government program for dealing with in-
flation is to increase production and to
use the people’s: organizations to deal
with the black market in a rank-and-file
manner.

JAP, neighborhood councils of supply
and prices, has already shown how an
organized people can control the black
markets in the absence of policing jaws.
JAP arranges for fair~ distribution of
products at legal prices, ferrets out
hoarded supplies and forces the mer-

chants to sell them at the legal prices.

Angry women in a barrio or a poblacién
are as effective a law-enforcement
agency as any group of police. Besides,
the women organized in JAPs soon learn
who the real enemies are and learn the
power of organization, thus extending
the mass base of Popular Unity.

The special importance of educating
women in the politics of Chile is apparent
from the figures of the March 1973 con-

gressional elections. Votes of women and -

men are tabulated separately. Although
Popular Unity received 44% of the total

‘vote, they won a majority of the male

vote. The battle to bring women more
fully into the Chilean revolutionary pro-
cess is taking place in all the mass organ-
izations: mothers’ centers, neighborhood
councils, parents’ centers, local health

“committees, councils of supplies and

prices, executives of cooperative farms,
centers of agrarian reform, peasants’
councils, committees of production, ad-
ministrative councils of factories, com-
mittees of vigilance in factories, and,
most important, the unions. =

We stayed in Santiago until July 5 so we
could join in the last lap of the epic march

El Sigie”

Allende addresses student supporters, June 6-

of the youth against fascism. The north-
ern half of the march, led by Gladys Mar-
in of the Communist Youth, came from
Arica. The southern half, led by Carlos
Lorca of Socialist Youth, marched from
Puerto Montt through an area where rain-
fall is measured in yards, not inches.
Each part covered about 1,000 miles,
meeting in Santiago for a dramatic cli-
max to 15 days of marching and educating
against fascism.

Pablo Neruda, Nobel prize winner in
poetry and Chilean Communist leader,
has issued a call to artists and intellect-
uals to start a cultural counter-offensive
against fascism, to help save Chile from
civil war. In Europe, authors Louis Ara-
gon and Graham Greene, and ex-premier
Mitterand; have formed a committee of
solidarity with Chile in response to Ner-
uda’s call and are appealing to artists and
intellectuals to jointhem. ,

Within Chile, the cultural offensive
against fascism was highlighted by an in-
ternational music festival of people’s
songs. Unfortunately, the United States
was not represented, although Santiago
newspapers said Harry Belafonte had
been invited. Some new murals are being
painted, but perhaps fewer than last year
because they are running out. of walls.

The international solidarity of French
and Belgian dockers who refused to un-
load Chilean copper when Kennecott was
trying to seize the shipment was greatly
valued by the Chilean workers. The soc-
ialist countries are coming to the aid of
Chile by advancing credits for mutually
beneficial trade. According to Chile
Hoy, Santiago, July 5, 1973, the Soviet
Union is delivering 100,000 metric tons of
wheat for only $95 a ton compared to the
Canadian price of $128 or the U.S. price of
$195. The USSR is also sending Chile’
cotton for its mills and lamb to aid the
meat supply. Cuba had donated sugar,
.and all other socialist countries have.
pledged support. __ :

Support from the peace movement in
the United States for Chile’s struggle to.
avoid civil war would-be most timely.
The U.S. has cut off even short-term
commercial credit to Chile, causing a
shortage of replacement parts and mater-
ials for the industries of Chile. North
Americans not represented by the Water-
gaters and ITT must demand that the
U.S. restore credit to Chile and stop inter-
fering in her internal affairs. Z

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