The following is a communica-
tion from the Communist Party
of Uruguay asking for solidarity
actions in their struggle against
the Bordaberry dictatorship. It
was received by the fraternal
delegations attending the recent
Ist Congress of the Communist
Party oi Cuba.

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An extraordinary resurgence
of typical fascist repression by
the Bordaberry dictatorship
against democrats, patriots and

While attending the 7th Con-
gress of the Polish United Work-
ers’ Party in December on behalf
of the Communist Party of Can-

ada, Bruce Magnuson travelled

_ with the fraternal delegates from
Peru and Syria to the city of
Zyrardow where he spoke to 800
workers of the Polskilin Linen
factory. The bulk of exports
from this enterprise are sent to
the USA and Canada.

Excerpts from Magnuson’s
speech follow: :

“I am delighted to be a fra-

- Congress of the Polish United
Workers Party, and I bring you
fraternal greetings from the
Communist Party of Canada.
“We rejoice with you at the
great achievements and _ ad-
vances which you record since
the 6th Congress in 1971. The
economic progress has _ raised
people’s living standards and has
helped to strengthen your so-
cialist economy. This fact, be-
_ sides being of great importance
_ in the. progressive solution of

country and toward a_ higher
stage of economic and social de-
velopment here in Poland, at the
same time helps to strengthen
the struggle for peace and so-
cialism everywhere throughout
the world .. - é

“T was struck by the mighty
progress made by the Polish peo-
_ ple since 1971, implementing the
_ plans made at your 6th Con-
_ gress, under the leadership of
your Polish United Workers’
Party. At the same time, even
more challenging tasks for the
Party and the Polish people were
raised for the next five years,
_ namely, the development of the
basis for an advanced socialist
society. I have no reason to
doubt that you will accomplish
your goals, including the steady
growth of real wages, a growth
in social expenditures te make
life easier and more secure tor
working people, making maxi-
_ mum use of human and material
resources in order to build a

ternal delegate to the Seventh’

social problems within your own

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those
trend, and much more ferocious-
ly against the Communist-Party,
the Young Communist League
and the Workers National Con-
vention (CNT) has been in evi-
dence in Uruguay in the past
few weeks. This brutal operation,
concentrated and long prepared,
is an avowed attempt to decapi-
tate the leading anti-dictator-
ship force, which has never
ceased acting since June 27,
1973.

Spe aking to sat workers :
‘Struck by tremendous gains

in opposition of every -

Since the end of October, this
repressive wave has taken a toll
of more than 500 victims, among
them imprisoned, missing, kid-
napped, banished, tortured and
even assassinated persons, apart
from the brazen plunder wanton
destruction of homes, libraries

Bruce Magnuson addressing a meeting of 800 workers in the city
Zyrardow during his visit te Poland where he attended the 7th
Congress of the Polish. United Workers’ Party.

humanist society with care for
the well being of working people.
“As a fraternal delegate from
a capitalist country to your
Congress, I can testify to the
fact that an opposite process has
been set in motion by the ruling
class of Canada. A large scale
eccnomic offensive is now under
way to cut the real incomes of
the working people. Wages are
being frozen and rolled back,
while prices are steadily rising.
Social expenditures are being cut
while taxes levied on the work-
ing people are rising. Both infla-
tion and unemployment’ are
growing at the same time. The
cost of living is rising rapidly
while rent, interest and profit are
zooming upwards. The result is
grewing poverty and degrada-
tion of the working people.”
Magnuson described the mono-
poly attack and the fight-back by

working people. He continued:

“ Other issues, such as United
States monopoly domination in
the Canadian economy in concert
with Canadian moncpoly, the ef-
fort of Canadian monopoly to’
rise from junior partnership to
full equality as partners in a
ccntinental enterprise, a consti-
tutional as well as economic and
political crisis in relatiens be-

‘tween English and French*speak-

ing Canada, when combined
with the economic crisis make
for an explosive situation. ”
The Canadian delegate con-
cluded by speaking of the chang-
ing world balance of forces in
favor of peace and socialism and
expressing confidence “in future
growth and advance where we,

,the working pecple of Canada,

will join you in the growing com-
munity of world socialist na-
tions: .”?

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Ve Guns et,

and property of those persecuted
by the so-called “Joint Forces”
carrying out these operations.
Uruguay under Bordaberry’s
dictatorship has already the du-
bious honor of being one of the
countries with largest number of
political prisoners per capita of
the population; international
public opinion has been moved
during these two years by the
reports of the incredible torture
of prisoners, apart from the ban-
ishment of various personalities.
Thousands of Uruguayans en-
dure long imprisonment, among
them deputy Jaime Pérez, gene-
ral Victor Licandro, the former
working-class leader Héctor Rod-
riguez,. and thousands of other
patriots. Outstanding social and
scientific figures are being added
to the long list, among them en-
gineer, mathematician and Pro-
fessor Emeritus José Luis Mas-
sera, who is also a Communist
Party leader; Vladimir Turianski,
Frente Amplio deputy and CNT
vice-president; Alberto Altezor,
former deputy and railway lead-
er; and other outstanding trade
union leaders, such as railway-
man Pedro’ Toledo, docker
Huberto Rodriguez, and others.
The gravity of the recent dic-
tatorship offensive is that those
arrested have been, in effect,
kidnapped, hidden and their de-
tention denied to their famities
and lawyers. When their arrest
is discovered. by other means, the
prisoners have already been
tortured, which prevents the
case from being denounced and
exposed by solidarity action; in
many cases, this means a hazard
to their lives, because of the
brutal torture, and because
many of them are in poor health.
The intensification of repres-
sion, which has already claimed
several lives through torture, is
due to the desperate attempts of
the reactionary dictatorship to
crush the workers’ and people’s
resistance which has never sub-
sided. On the contrary, it has
widened and spread to other
social sections, as the state of
the country’s economy worsens,
parallel to the internal isolation
of the dictatorship, to which is
added international discredit.
The National Party, . sections
of the government party, church
dignitaries and even large cattle-
owners’ associations have joined
the initial opposition of the
working class, students, univer-
sity and, on the political level,
the Communist Party ‘and the
Frente Amplio. All this is objec-
tively shaping into a broad anti-
dictatorship front which will ex-
press itself ever more clearly on
the other political levels, above

all, whenever, the dictator and its

rightist military henchmen de-
clare that no elections will be ‘¢
called within the constitutional —
period, so seeking to perpetuate ‘g,
their power. z Be

In order to face this national },
and international isolation, div-
ert the people’s attention from
their critical situation and justi-
fy its own crimes, the-dictator- ~
ship is trying to mount a huge ©

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provocation — of which there —
are already signs — trying to ,
use ClA-style trained elements —
to distort the noble and self-sac- — 51

rificing freedom struggle of the 4,
Uruguayan people and present it py
as a “sinister Bolshevik plot” or
a “subversive plan” similar to py
the ones periodically contrived q
by their friends and masters,  },;
Pinochet, Geisel or Stroessner, «
with whom Bordaberry is heavi- 4;
ly implicated in the efforts to. qj
turn the so-called Southern Cone — yx
of America into a fascist strong- _p;
hold. Py

We alert all the democratic 9,
and revolutionary forces, especi- f
ally the Communist Parties and  p,
fraternal workers’ organizations,
about this mooted provocation, ~«;
and urge them to help us fight
it by denouncing its source and
objectives in due time.

To this end, it may be impor-
tant to:

e Make relevant public state-
ments via all possible communi-
cations media: political, trade
union, university, newspapers,
radic, etc. ae

e Send protest telegrams or be
notes to the Uruguayan govern- fi
ment or to Uruguayan embassies. _

e Issue a specific solidarity ©
statement in scientific and/or —
university circles in support of
José Luis Massera, demanding —
guarantees for his life, offering 7
asylum, professorships, etc.

e Arouse the interest of offi-
cial politi¢al or parliamentary 7]
circles to take every possible ac- —
ticn or issue the proper state-
ments.

Rodney Arismendi, general —
secretary of the Communist Party ©
of Uruguay.