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The Popular Unity of Chile
(Exterior) has issued a declara-
tion in response to Pinochet’s Or-
tuzar Plan which he has advanced
for a Chilean ‘‘constitution”’
Under which the fascist junta
would retain full control. Popular
Unity’s statement also advances

the broad outlines of the dem-

Ocratic alternative to this plan.

The following is an abridged
form of the Popular Unity call:

The Ortuzar Plan deprives the
People of their sovereignty and

perpetuates the division between
people by creating a restricted
Concept of nationality that en-
compasses only those ready to
Participate in a national entity
Whose definition is completely at
the will of the authorities. In other
Words, all Chileans who do not
Share the politics of the regime
and who make that known, are
excluded from ‘‘the nation of
Pinochet’’ and do not share in it.
To make this exclusion possible,
the plan creates a series of repres-
~Sive measures that allow the au-
thorities to eliminate from the
Political community or deprive of
his - fundamental rights anyone
who shows signs of opposition,
and to restrict every form of
Organization that promotes dem-
Ocratic interests.

All the plan’s fundamental op-
erations are, in effect, handed
Over, to organizations appointed
Solely by the dictator. It is the
Armed Forces that ‘‘carry out the
- law’’, ‘‘guarantee internal public
order, ” establish ‘‘national objec-
tives’’ every 12-years and decide
‘which ‘‘acts jeopardize national
Security’.

It is the Constitutional Tribunal
which determines when persons

“are to be excluded from ‘‘the
Nation’’ and when political or-
Qanizations are to cease to exist.
It is the Central Bank Council,

Pinochet's Ortuzar Plan which he has advanced for a “constitution” would give the fascist military full

control. The Popular Unity has presented an alternative for the people.

with almost perpetual member-
ship, that sets and guides the
economic policy. These institu-
tions depend directly or indirectly
upon the president. The planeven
says that in the hypothetical case
that ‘‘the nation’’ elects a Con-
gress that is not to his liking,
Pinochet or the tyrant that suc-
cedds him can act without it. _
If such safeguards were not
enough, the plan also gives the
dictatorship extreme measures: a
constitutional emergency. Loyal
to the classic fascist doctrine that
‘‘whoever decrees a state of
emergency is the one who holds
power’’, Pinochet reserves for

himself this faculty in the widest-
possible sense. Once this is used,

individuals are helpless before the
authorities as all rights and indi-
vidual guarantees disappear,
along with the legal recourses that
should offer protection. Although
the preamble to the Plan has de-

* clared that these rights ‘‘come be-

fore and are superior to those of
the State’’, when an emergency
arises, their relationship is turned
around: force becomes right, and
individuals lack any protection.
A constitution that, in the name
of national security, represses
human rights, deprives the people
of self-government and hands
over the direction of their coun-
try’s destiny to anti-dem-
ocratically created authority is a

‘fascist constitution which the

people of Chile and their dem-

ocratic organizations totally and .

emphatically reject.

Knowing this, Pinochet has
chosen the only political path
possible to impose his creation:
its approval by anti-democratic
means subject to his control. He
can ask his own Council of State
to give its servile approval; he can
also call another farcical referen-
dum held in the midst of repres-

a 8, lobbyists, institutions
foundations, news and

y tOmic action, guests, trips
ic Othe

These activities were di-

80vernment

"People will lead to more,
®88 tension in the Middle —

Services, film produc-
and distribution,

her matters related to

both internally (where
secretly
a prominent news-
externally to win
for apartheid

the U.S.-inspired

Meir Vilner,.
member of the Knesset and
leader of Israel’s Communist
Party,
against heavy odds told the
truth about this unholy triple
deal and set history on its feet.

~ Here is a portion of his speech
in parliament last December: -

‘*There is one problem that
must be solved if peace and
security are desired; this is the
recognition of the fundamental
fact that in this country there
are two peoples, the Israeli and
the Arab peoples, and there
must be mutual recognition.
Both peoples, must live’ in
freedom in independent states.

‘Without this, all the talk
about peace and security, is
nothing but empty prattle. Just
as it is impossible to achieve
peace without recognition of

Israel ...

“The people in the West
Bank and in the Gaza Strip,
just as the whole Palestinian
people, have unanimously de-
cided that they desire peace
with Israel on the basis of the
establishment of an indepen-
dent state alongside the State
of Israel, and that they recog-
nize the PLO as their sole and

Communist

has courageously

- Begin- Caner aos the state of Israel, it is impos- accepted this proposal.
>’ it is well to te that sible to talk about peace with- ‘*Sadat and Begin boast that
Y Voices, including the out recognizing the Palestinian they were among those who.
tity of the Arab world, the people and their right to estab- influenced the USA to with-
‘alist community and pro- lish an independent state in the draw from the agreement with
Ve states, have warned West Bank and in the Gaza the Soviet Union, in order to
Sell-out of the Palesti- Strip alongside the State of each a separate agreement be-

authorized representative.

“We have always wamed
‘that real peace can be based
only on peace among the
peoples and on international
guarantees, and not on the
basis of a conspiracy with a
ruler who acts also against his
own people ..

“The background to Camp
David is the intensification of
the arms race on part of the
USA, etc. And hence, also the
violation of the American-
Soviet agreement about the
Middle East, which was signed
in October 1977. Immediately

* ~ after signing it, the U.S: rulers ©
violated it. As known, in the ~
Soviet-American statement,
the foundations of peace were
defined and according to it, the -
Geneva Peace Conference was
to be held in December 1977.
The Arab states and the PLO

tween themselves,
American auspices. For this
purpose they promised Carter
to agree to the establishment of
American military bases in
Egypt and Israel, and that they
would act as policemen against

_ the independent states and the
movements for national libera-
tion in our region, in the Per-
sian Gulf and in Africa .

under

sion and fraud; finally, he can per-
sonally choose the first Congress
which in turn will choose him as
president. #

- The only thing he cannot do is

.allow free expression of the

people’s wishes. His plan and its
institution clearly reveal what the
Popular Unity has been sustain-
ing for some time: the fascist re-
gime is irreconcilable with
pluralism; Pinochet and democ-
racy are absolutely incompatible
terms.

The Popular Unity has a pre-
cise formula for that authority: a
Provisional Democratic Govern-
ment, whose program and charec-
teristics we have earlier stated.
Today we reiterate that call in the
conviction that only the greatest
unity of all democratic and anti,
fascist forces, civil and military,
will bring about an authority that
respects popular self-govern-
ment, free exercise of public free-
doms and a transition towards a
real constitution.

. This new constitution, created
by all the people, must learn from
the terrible lessons of these years

_ of fascism.

Fundamental, in our judgment, —
are the following:

1. The essential concept that
the people, all the people of Chile
without any exceptions, hold
power.

2. The democratic creation of
all the powers of state.

3. The complete respect, pro-
tection and promotion of human
rights, which the state must

tee.

4. Pluralism as the free expres-
sion, organization and participa-
tion in public life of every ideolog-
ical, political, religious and cul-
tural persuasion, without pre-
judicing the right to make illegal
those groups that foment and en-
courage fascism or fascist forms
of state or society. .

5. The participation: of the
people, through their organiza-
tions, in the creation of public
bodies and in decision-making.

6. The democratization of the
economy through the re-
establishment of the function of
State in promoting and protecting
the participation of workers in the
Management of enterprises, and
in re-establishing sovereignty
over natural resources.

7. The free participation of the
Armed Forces in the develop-
ment of the country, ending their
isolation from the rest of society;
the re-establishment of their role
as the body charged with national
defence, and the recognition of
the right of each member of the
Armed Forces. to free citizens’
rights.

8. The reform of Judicial
Power so that it establish dem-

_ ocratic means for designing and

administering efficiently justice

for all, and control of this function

by the representative State and
community organizations.

Right-wing forces lead
attack against Manley

Reactionary forces in Jamaica,
led by the Jamaica Labor Party,
have stepped up their attack on
the Manley government in an ef-
fort to split the progressive
movement, said Joy Booth,
representative of the Committee
of. Women for Progress and a
member of the Workers’ Party of

_ Jamaica, in an interview with the

Tribune, March 23.

Booth said this campaign by ex-
treme right-wing forces has taken
the form of newspaper articles,
Meetings and attempts to
mobilize sections of the trade un-
ions under their control in a bid to
topple Prime Minister Manley
and replace his government with
one which would represent the
big capitalists and landlords.

Coupled with the struggle
against this right-wing manoeuvre,
Booth said, is a campaign under
way by the progressive forces to
encourage the Manley govern-
ment to take a tougher stance
against the terms imposed on
Jamaica by -the International
Monetary Fund loan the country

~- entered into in May 1978.

Under these agreements,
prices of-consumer goods in the
country were to rise 40% in 1978,
30% in 1979 and 20% in 1980. Por-
fits were to be guaranteed ata
minimum of 20%. The devalu-

ation of the Jamaican dollar was
to be 37.5% which is being done at
a rate of 1.5% per month.

This double squeeze imposed
by the IMF has caused terrible
hardships, Booth said, and Man-
ley is being urged to renegotiate
the terms of the loan when it
comes up for review shortly.

The WP is also calling for ex-
pansion of public services, a re-
imposition of price controls and
the removal of certain corrupt
government ministers who have
‘sabotaged programs which are in
the interests of the working
people.

Manley, under pressure from
the progressive movement, has
announced his intention to fight
against the IMF ‘‘crawling peg”’
devaluation. He is also scheduled
to-visit the Soviet Union, April 9, ~
which-has caused extreme anger
from the right forces.

Booth spoke also about the
campaign being conducted to
enact a maternity leave law which
would guarantee three months’ .
leave for working women. In-one_ .
year some 9,000 signatures have
been collected on a petition, and
Manley, speaking at an Interna-
tional Women’s Day rally March |
11, promised to ‘‘form a commit-
tee” to examine the question.

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