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‘Democracy Now, Out With Pinochet!’

The following are extracts from the Manifesto of the
Central Committee of the Chilean Communist Party to
Sd Members and the people, dated March 1984 in

antiago, Chile. Its slogan is: ‘‘Democracy Now, Out
Ith Pinochet!”’
Mocracy is the main slogan that mobilizes and uni-
Ww € majority of the nation. The working class, the
ian of the city and the countryside, wide sectors of

€ industrial owners and the middle class want an end to
abi regime. There are favorable general conditions to
: tain this end: after 10 years of fascism the country is
mpoverished and destroyed economically. The gross
Dee aphical product per inhabitant in 1983 was equal to

ae Crisis requires a political solution: the eradication
the material foundation of fascism. The people have
Velled most of the way to victory, but the remaining
PO Ttion will contain a decisive battle that must be won.
t S will be possible if the whole of Chile stands up
gether. It is possible because it corresponds to the new

eueency emerging in the.southern cone of South Ameri-

saute Struggle against the dictatorship is developing
‘tywhere in Chile. The middle class protests via

en, az08 (widespread use of car horns in the streets at

et times), Cacerolasos (banging of pots at set times) and

USE of th

con the media sector. The working class is using more
an lative means against the regime such as barricades
mi Self-defence actions. These legitimate protests are
Stivated by the regime’s violence.
aparece s dictatorship is still fascist and the only
n against it is popular rebellion.
he idea to organize a national strike is growing among
© Masses. This national strike must be a decisive action
*8ainst Pinochet. In its success the working class and the
T movement have a great responsibility. The work-
18 Class must strive to unify the package of demands of
different sectors and match this package with the
Political objective: that Chile expel Pinochet from pow-

&. Th

> l¢ dictator wants to behead the popular movement,
Specially the Popular Democratic Movement and to

In this struggle we must win new achievements to-
wards labor unity. There is a strong tendency favorable
to unity at the grassroot level where the class interests
prevail. This sentiment of unity must reach the labor
movement superstructure. The working class needs a
powerful and independent labor movement able to con-
vert itself into a strong peoples’ tool. Any unitarian labor
organization must have fraternal and internationalist re-
lations with foreign working organizations and be in
favor of world peace. The unity of the workers is vital to
the struggle against Pinochet.

There is a consensus Pinochet must be replaced by a
provisional government which convokes to a Con-
stituent Assembly in order to draft a new constitution.
From the first day it must reactivate the economy, eradi-
cate fascism, punish the criminals and expropriate the
financial oligarchy. This government has to declare war
against unemployment, hunger, misery and fascism.

The centre opposition offers us a ‘‘social pact’’. As
Communists we say yes to the social pact if the newly-
formed government prompts anti-fascist goals and takes
measures to improve the working class conditions. As
Communists we say no to the social pact if it is aimed to
tie working class hands in favor of bourgeoisies’ in-
terests. In the opposition to fascism today there are two
coalitions: one is the bourgeois-democratic solution
(Democratic Alliance), the other is the popular democra-
tic solution towards socialism (Popular Democratic
Movement).

The Communist Party of Chile is aiming its efforts to
obtain the deepest possible democratic solution capable
of eradicating fascism, building a democratic peoples’
state and re-initiating the anti-imperialist anti-oligarchy
transformation towards socialism started by the Popular
Unity Government.

The Communist Party of Chile has defeated exile,
intrigues, manoeuvres and ideological pressure. The

‘Communist Party of Chile is growing with a recruitment

campaign mainly aimed to reincorporate passive
membership. The Communist Party recognizes the im-
portant role played by Chilean communists in exile

REF gE SSION

For Chilean Communists, the democratic struggle in
Chile is linked with the international situation. American
imperialism, which installed Pershing-2s in Europe
against the USSR and real socialism, is the same im-
perialism that installed Pinochet in power.

We must fight imperialism on all fronts, especially
defending world peace. In Chile today the conditions to
re-open and re-organize the peace movement exist. This
is an urgent task. Solidarity has been received by Chilean
people but also must be given to other peoples in strug-
gle. Thus, Chilean Communists reiterate their support
to people struggling against apartheid, racism, zionism

ore the democratic forces and reduce the impor-
Nee of the national strike.

Chile.

providing the material support for the party struggle in

movements.

and express our support of the national liberation

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1 International Focus

Tom Morris

| Asmack

| at Reaganism

; The Centre for Defence In-
°rmation, a group of retired
‘S. military officers, reported
ast Week that Reagan’s milit-
i Spending ($2.6-trillion for
r € years 1982-89) is $300-bil-
‘On more than the United
tates spent in the preceding
years which included both
N€ Korean and Vietnam wars.
tt charged the weapons
Spending spree ‘tis damaging
Sur economy and piling up a
"ecord-breaking deficit."” The
8foup supports lower arms
Spending and arms control.
‘It’s report also said the huge
Sums for weapons come at the
| ©XPense of other essential pro-
8rams. It spoke of waste, fraud
and other abuses being a
uilt-in feature of the U/S. de-
€nce Department spending.
And it pointed to a 114 per cent

agan’s goal of 17,000 new
Nuclear weapons.
_ That’s Reaganism stark
Naked. Forget the ‘“‘man of
Peace’ image being conjured
Up this election year. Forget
his so-called willingness to
~ talk peace”’ with the Soviets.

‘| Since 1980 he has led his

Country toward war and the
World to the brink. He has rup-
tured his country’s economy
Which faces a staggering $1.5-

Tillion deficit to pay for weap-
Ons,

Mcrease in funding to pay for

MONTAGE — RICHARD SLYE

17,000 new rockets, the MX,
‘Cruise and Pershing-2s mis-
siles, Star Wars, the B-1
bomber, a nuclear arms race
and a tinderbox in Central
America — Reagan’s new mili-
tary budget exceeds U.S.
spending in the past 35 years.

He has cut back on all social
programs; nobody except the
rich is spared. He’s a danger-
ous, simplistic militarist.

And since Canadians can’t
vote in the U.S. election, we

_ might listen carefully to Rea-

gan’s people running in our
own. Tory defence critic Hen-

rie Andre says a Mulroney
government will boost Cana-
da’s military spending by 50
per cent and there are
enough Liberals who think the
same. Denying these two par-
ties a majority Sept. 4 can be
our smack at Reaganism.

A ‘subversive’
in Israel

When Israelis go to the polls
July 23, the Progressive List
for Peace will be missing on
their ballot.

The Jewish-Arab party was
barred from the elections last
month for what the central
election committee called,
“‘subversive principles and
intentions”’. It further charged
that leading persons on the
PLP list ‘acted in a manner of
identification with enemies of
the state.”’

That’s pretty serious stuff.
“‘Subversion’’, ‘‘enemies of
the state’’ bring to mind es-
pionage and other capital
crimes.

What did the PLP do? Its
election platform called for the
creation of a Palestinian state
on Israeli-occupied Gaza and
West Bank. This, according to
the election committee is
‘‘subversion’’. Had they the
power, the committee would
ban the United Nations for re-
peatedly calling for exactly the
same thing. And it follows,

“

they would outlaw the majority
of nations who have through
the UN and independently cal-
led for a Palestinian state in
Gaza and West Bank.

And so, in this showcase of
democracy, as the Western
media likes to call Israel, a
political party cannot seek
votes for advocating a policy
that the vast majority of the
world’s nations support.

The right wing Likud, how-
ever, is kosher. All it supports
is occupation of West Bank
and Gaza, an undeclared war
on Lebanon, illegal Jewish
settlements on Arab land, clos-
ing of Arab universities, jailing
of thousands of Arab patriots,
Sabra and Shatila, a 400 per
cent annual inflation rate,
complete militarization of the
country and other ‘‘free
world”’ ideals.

Picture of a
U.S. ‘partner’

In 1965, when the Dominican
Republic elected a slightly
left-leaning government it so
‘shocked the U.S. that Presi-
dent Johnson sent in the
Marines. Order, peace and
democracy were restored.

If this episode had a story-
book ending, we could report
that the Dominican Republic,
under the friendly eye of its
benefactor lives in peace and
plenty. The Marines gave that

country 19 more years of U.S.
largesse. They ensured that
wayward people of steady
trade in which America buys
sugar, coffee and cocoa at the
lowest prices and sells the
happy Dominicans oil, autos,
refrigerators, even fruit, at
nice, high prices. _

America extended the
Dominican people access to
loans — from the International
Monetary Fund, the World
Bank, the U.S. Agency for In-
ternational Development and
other U.S.-run outfits whose
task it is to spread money
around in the developing
world. :

Dominican Republic’s for-
eign debt is now $2.4-billion, a
result of its total economic
dependence on the U.S. Like a
heroin addict, the ‘‘cure’’
prescribed is more dope which
the U.S. dealer is glad to sup-
ply — at a price.

Sixty people died in riots
there recently protesting sharp
price hikes for food, medicines
and other imported goods —
price hikes demanded by the
IMF as a condition for further
loans. And they want more:
the IMF demands a doubling of
gasoline prices (imported from
guess who?), a step designed to
add to the misery of an already
impoverished people. To
please the bankers, hundreds
have been arrested ‘“‘as a pre-
ventative measure’’ in this
U.S.-created Camelot.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE, JULY 25, 1984 e 5