“We don’t

over’; he reminded the assem-
bled: Communists,
want and what we must work
for is a genuine, broadly-based,
movement,

democratic
would be as
sible,

tion.”

Dealing with Chile’s internal
Mr.
frankly that we have not yet got
all the facts..But in answer to
those on the Left who promote
idea that the Communist
Party of Chile was somehow
misled, he reported a conversa-
tion he had with Luis Corvalan,
general-secretary of the Commu-

situation,

the

nist Party of

Canadian Communist leader was

in Chile at a

congress.
Mr.

valan ... he

peaceful path

Corvalan told

ary interests

In his talk

tion in Chile.
“The first

and would reach out
to all segments -of the popula-

Kashtan said that,
conversation with Comrade Cor-

the point: We are seeking the

it could be in our conditons cer-
tain peculiarities are there that
we need to make use of, and
take note of, and utilize.”

But we have no illusions, Luis

“We are mindful that reaction-

the road to democratic advance.

The democratic forces must be

able to nip this in the bud.”
Major Facts

summarized the major facts con-
cerning the contemporary situa-

events in Chile have dramatical-
ly brought to world public at-
tention,” he said, “is that the
capitalist. class,
choked in bourgeois democracy.

That is, they could no longer
stand democracy. because the
working class and its allies
were using it to advance their
democratic and socialist aims.

“The last election showed ‘a
substantial increase in that vote
which even the capitalist press
was compelled to comment on,
saying it was not typical of in
between election years.

Moving Leftward
“But what it illustrated was
that the turn to the left was not

an accidental phenomenon in
Chile but that the masses of the
people were continuing to move
leftward . . . and reaction had
to draw the conclusion: either
accept the inevitable because the
inevitable showed that in 1976,
when the presidential elections
would -take place again, there
would be a completely irrevers-
ible shift, not only to the left
but’ towards basic socialist ob-
jectives — or try to prevent that
possibility.

Clearly, reaction could not
afford democracy and was de-
termined to crush it.”

The secend evident fact; the
speaker said, “.. . is that United
States imperialism, the CIA and
the Pentagon, were directly in-
volved...”

Direct Involvement

The Communist leader charged
U.S. imperialism with direct in-

want to take it

“what we

that
effective as pos-

Kashtan said

Chile, when the
Communist Party
“in
(Corvalan) made

of advance; and

the step-by-step measures di-
rected:to overthrow the Allende
government,” through economic
aggression “to prevent the Al-
lende government from success-
fully carrying through their eco-
nomic and social reforms, and by
sabotage,” to turn the masses of
people against the government.

“This was illustrated in the
way the United States moved
heaven and earth to prevent the
Chilean government from get-
ting loans in order to meet its
obligations internationally .. .

“It was further illustrated in
the truckers’ strike whose aim
was, not to gain some economic

William Kashtan;

may, try to close

William Kashtan

fact, which the

or monopoly,

“Actually 4 reckon it’s a load of bull!”

volvement “in organization of

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CHILE STRUGGLE

e@ Continued from page 5

powerful movement, but from
past experience, I think more
and more people see, that what
they advocate is the negation,
the opposite of such a united
front movement.

Inside Chile

WILLIAM KASHTAN

concessions but to bring about
economic chaos. That strike was
financed by U.S. imperialism
through its agents in Chile.”
Planes Against Workers

U.S. imperialism, he said, had
found “the means to make mili-
tary equipment available to sec-
tions of the military forces in
Chile which were used, and most
of it is being used now, against
the working people of Chile...
airplanes were used to smash
... factories where the workers
were trying to protect the fac-
tories and to resist this fascist
attack upon .the democratic
rights of the Chilean people.

The third fact which stands
out, he said, “is that the aims
of this coup d’état, this military
effort, are . . . to restore the
power of monopoly, to take
away the gains of the people of
Chile.” He said that “one must
see the dirty hand of American
imperialism, which saw in Chile
as in Cuba, an inspiration for the
people of Latin America for a
road forward, not necessarily by
parliamentary means only, but
as a means’ through which the
people of Latin America would
rid themselves of Yankee im-
perialism, of their local oppres-
sors.

Anti-Imperialist

“The fourth fact... and per-
haps for us the most important
at this time, is that the struggle
is not over,” Mr. Kashtan stress-
ed.

“There has been a temporary
set-back imposed on the popular
movement in Chile— which is
not a Marxist revolution as those
who heard Allende a few weeks
ago will recall; nor a socialist
revolution, as he said in answer
to a question by the Hearst cor-
respondent.

“He said: ‘I’m a Marxist; but
this is not a Marxist govern-
ment. I’m a socialist: but this is
not a socialist government. This
is an anti-imperialist govern-
ment, directed to eliminate the
vestiges of imperialism’.”

Mr. Kashtan pointed out that
“the expression of that found
form in the nationalization of
the American multinational cor-
porations, and found form in the
carrying through of agrarian re-
form in Chile, as well as the na-
tionalization of banks and the
manufacturing industry.”

He said that “in the course of
carrying through the anti-imperi-
alist revolution, the question of
socialism would appear on the
agenda — not today, but inevit-
ably would appear before the
masses of the Chilean people.

. the reprisals and atrocities now

* Kashtan referred to the 5,200

CONTINUE

“I had a conversation recently
with someone,” he said, -who
stated that while “the struggle
is continuing with great difficul-
ty... if an election takes place
within a short period of time,
you would have the same result;
the Left would win, because the
conditions in Chile are such as
to make that. an objective pro-
cess that reaction cannot check.

“Reaction knows this. That is
why it is so desperately trying
to behead all opposition to its
fascist policies; 30,000 Chileans,
I was told, have already been
killed.”

Facing Death
In urging a campaign against

being invoked in Chile, Mr.

people reportedly facing court

martial, and added, “facing
court martial means facing
death.”

Of the 13,000 emigrés now
being shipped out of Chile,
most would go to prison in
the countries from which they
fled because “there was oppres-
sion against them.” ‘

That is why there-is “the need
for pressure on the. (Cana-
dian) government to call for the
re'ease of all political prisoners
held by the junta, and that they
allow entry of any one of those
into Canada, if they so desire,”
the Communist leader said.

“The quick reaction of demo-
cratic Canadians and of the
labor” movement against this
fascist onslaught on the consti-
tutionally-elected government,
shows that there is increasing
consciousness of what is in-
volved-in the events in Chile.”

Mr. Kashtan predicted that
this spirit ‘‘will grow, all over
the counry . . . It shows,” he
said, “the growing understanding
on the part of the working class
and other democratic forces, of
what’s involved in this struggle.”
He described it as the basis for
a wide movement of working
people, and democratic forces,
which must include the NDP,
which unfortunately up to now
has not said anything as a party,
although they’ve raised ques-
tions in the House.

NDP Position

“We don’t yet know what their
position is as a party. And we
have to compel them to state
their position in order to help
to broaden the movement on
the widest possible scale.”

Then, emphasizing the special
responsibility of Communists,
he said there were some ques-
tions of ideological clarity in-
volved, and related the talks he
had had with Chilean Commu-
nist leaders.

“As a Party,” he said, “it is
not our responsibility to lecture
the working class of Chile on
what they should do or what
they should:not do.

“Our task is to help to unite
the democratic forces of Can-
ada to ensure that every ounce

of strength and energy that we

possess in this country will be
thrown into the scale (on the
side) of. the working people of
Chile, and against reaction.”

He charged that “implicit in
the narrow, sectarian, ultra-left
position of the Maoists, of the
other ultra-leftists, is the denial
of the necessity of an alliance
on the part of the working class
with other sections of society.”

The speaker then dealt with
accusations that “the military
cannot be a base or a support-
ing point for the democratic

revolution . . .” as in Chile
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neutral position. And even thel@)
what was taking place wa 7
conflict to some degree, betwee!
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armed forces, and those eleme™
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position — a democratic a
tion. And the fact that Gen?
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ferences within the
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and to the end, the policy if
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the way to defeat reaction
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backs and defeats,” he said, : if
beheading of revolutionali®
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MOSCOW — A public m0
in the October Hall of toi ost?
of Trade Unions on SP”)
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the life of the fraternal ie en
people — the 29th andl py
of the socialist revolutiot”
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Ann ,
VANDERBRUGG

On September 14 two
ago, the Tribune sent
to its oldest reader, } St
Ann Vanderbrugge of ;
arines, Ont. On that
too, William Kashta?, f
the Communist Palla |
“heartiest congratulatl? ae
complimented her 0?
interest in the polite
our country,” and of
ardent reader of thé
Tribune.”

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of the death, on AU
Ann Vanderbrugg®
end of a rich life ‘
the cause of the }
working class.

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birthday, Ann vane a
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