Fe 8 Py AGF Ae 5 FAO 20 OS DR ee OE oo BS, BO

rt —— Ne TN tore. OE a

 —a

Boe

—_ ee S&S OO se OH OHO TA SH ~~

=

——

Chile:

cre for the Cuban Revolution
Ore it, few revolutionary
Movements have caught the at-
ntion of a hemisphere — indeed
of the world — as did the Popular
hity government of Chile. Its
Tee years of rule, each filled with
ise, dramatic events, and the
e€roie stature of its president,
lvador Allende, have inspired
admiration throughout the world.
fee clists, Communists,
“’mocrats everywhere celebrated
tts electoral victory on September
4, 1970 and followed anxiously the
‘umultuous course of — the
"evolution it sought to carry out.
: September 11, 1973, each suf-
red some of the agony of its
defeat at the hands of the CIA) and
€ traitorous Chilean generals.
et even in defeat there are
€ssons. From the experience of
the three years of the Allende
S0vernment a score or more books
ane appeared, some of them
ee to Popular Unity but many
f Cre deeply concerned with
Urthering the revolutionary
advance that was interrupted on
Ptember 11. Among the latter, a
w book by an American, Edward
Orstein, stands out as one of the
: Ost perceptive, thorough — and
grossing — studies of the Chilean
Tevolution.
ae book is Allende’s Chile and,
ae Subtitle indicates, it is an
. € view based on Boorstein’s
Pecial vantage point as an
®conomic advisor to the Popular

‘Stop DINA'
demanded

y The Canadian Co-Ordinating

Dy ks eS OL, tee entins

= = 8 Seeman [SV

Committee for Solidarity with

€mocratic Chile is pressing the
demand that Ottawa take action to
Stop the harassment of Chilean
€xiles by agents of the junta’s
Secret police.

The demand followed charges
that several Chileans living in
Canada had been threatened and,
M several cases, abducted and
Questioned by police agents.

Winnipeg, Manitoba attorney-
Seneral Howard Pawley has
Personally intervened and recently
vate a case to the police in

Ich Chileans were kidnapped
a questioned. An investigation
i S reportedly been underway
Ince the beginning of August.
haclthough Pinochet claimed to
ae abolished its secret police

8anization, DINA — bringing
Predictable praise from the Carter

Ninistration in the U.S. — the
as im has little meaning since the
;_louncement was accompanied
Y a junta decree establishing the

ational Information Centre (CNI)

Which has taken over virtually all

of DINA’s functions including

harassment of Chilean refugees
Ving abroad.

the les

7 Cr wer eee
ALLENDE’S CHI: An Inside

View. -By Edward Bwtorstein.
International Publishers, New
York. Paper $4.95. Available at
the People’s Co-op Bookstore.

Unity government. For a little
more than a year, he worked with
the New York-based president of
the Chile Trading Corporation and
later, from September 1972 until
the coup, he lived in Chile as
assistant to the president’s
economic advisor, Jaime Barrios.
In that capacity he was witness to
the massive intervention cam-
paign initiated by the U.S. govern-
ment, the CIA and the multi-
national corporations and to the
struggle waged by the Popular
Unity government to overcome its
formidable enemies and begin the
arduous march toward socialism.

In addition to his own extensive
experience — as a former advisor
to the revolutionary government of
Cuba, he was familiar with im-
perialist intervention — Boorstein
had the advantage of material that
has become available through
once-classified sources regarding
the role of U.S. agencies and
corporations in Chile. Testimony
before the Senate Intelligence
Committee, reports of covert CIA
action in Chile and the transcripts
of the International Telephone and
Telegraph (ITT) hearings have all
come out since September 1973 and
he has used them effectively to
demonstrate the enormity of the
conspiracy against Chilean
democracy.

From the very beginning, even
before Allende’s inauguration as
president of the republic, govern-
ment agencies and the office of
U.S. president Richard Nixon were
conspiring to prevent Allende’s
accession to office and were
mapping plans for a:military coup:
Fundamental to the imperialist
strategy was, as CIA director
Richard Helm’s notes indicated,
“to make the economy scream.”
That strategy remained as a
central feature of U.S. intervention
in Chile and would present the
struggling UP government with
some of its gravest problems.

Nor can those problems be
minimized despite the
pronoucements of some critics who
have blamed the overthrow of the
government on Allende’s
“economic ineptness.’’ Boorstein
shows clearly that the tactics
employed by the CIA And govern-
ment agencies — the curtailment
of normal lines of credit, the
stalling on spare _ parts
agreements, the undermining of.
resource prices all coupled with
covert economic sabotage —
created difficulties for the UP
government that virtually no
government had ever before faced.
Unlike bourgeois governments
which seek to curb inflation, for
example, by cutting government
expenditures and

- A Concert
for Chilean Democracy

with:
Raul Figueroa .
and the Vancouver Chilean Singers

creating:

George Hewison
_and the Rocky Mountain Ensemble

Sun. Sept. 11, 8 p.m. QE Playhouse

Tickets $3.50, Children, OAP $2.50
at Co-op Books or phone 254-9797

SALVADOR ALLENDE’S LAST MOMENTS . . . “In these dark bitter

sons of the

moments in which treason is trying to impose itself, you must continue
believing that much sooner, rather than later, broad avenues will again
open up along which worthy men will pass, to build a better society.”

unemployment, the UP govern-
ment had to find new, radical
solutions to benefit working people
and small shopkeepers. But with a
Congress dominated by the
Christian Democratic and National
Party opposition, new legislation
aimed at solving problems such as
inflation were frequently blocked.
As Boorstein writes:

“The problem was not mainly
technical, but political. The enemy
was counting on economic dif-
ficulties, working to ensure that
they would occur. Inflation was one
of the difficulties counted on most
to create the economic and
political chaos necessary to get rid
of the UP government. The fight
over inflation was part of the
struggle for power taking place in
Chile.”

If the Popular Unity coalition
ultimately lost that struggle for
power, it was, first and foremost,
because of the formidable enemies
arrayed against it by U.S. im-
perialism working closely with
Chilean reaction. But one of the
greatest assets of Allende’s Chile is
its frank, incisive analysis of the
weaknesses of the Popular Unity
government and its errors and
shortcomings in formulating the
necessary revolutionary strategy.

Clearly, in his analysis, Boor-
stein is not concerned merely with
passing judgment on the mistakes
of the UP. Nor does he apply as
others have done, a “textbook

formalism” to judge events. ‘‘To
understand the mistakes, one must
first understand the difficulties —
why the ‘easy, formula like
solutions presented by some critics
were not possible,’’ he asserts in
his preface. Above all, his concern
is that the lessons of the Chilean
experience become part of the
revolutionary heritage both of
Chile and of other countries
seeking to build socialism. From
that perspective he outlines and
examines some of the errors — the
lack of aunified strategy within the
UP as to how to achieve power; the
failure to win over sections of the
armed forces and an excessive
reliance on their ‘‘profes-
sionalism”; and the reluctance on
the part of the government to wage
a consistent and unabating
ideological struggle against U.S.
imperialism and internal reaction.

As to the recurring question,
“Does the Chilean experience tell
us. that the electoral road to
socialism must be rejected?”’’,
Boorstein is unequivocal. The
answer is no.

UP

“Winning the right to a govern-
ment by election does not
guarantee a_ revolutionary
movement that it will be allowed to
govern. But the Chilean experience
does not warrant the conclusion
that an elected revolutionary
government must inevitably be
overthrown. What it does illustrate
is that it must be prepared to back
with force its right to govern.”

Throughout his book, Boorstein
makes extensive use of statistical
data and his own memoranda on
economic problems which oc-
casionally makes for some heavy
reading but despite that, Allende’s
Chile is never a book only for the
economist or the political scientist.
Boorstein is at pains to present it
as clearly and understandably as
possible and to make it im-
mediately relevant to everyone
concerned with the contemporary
istruggle for socialism. And even at
its most complex, the material in
Allendes Chile is alive with the
drama of a revolutionary govern-
ment striving by every means
possible to grapple with the
problem of running a country
which U.S. imperialism had placed
virtually under siege.

Tragically, the embattled
Popular government whose history
Boorstein outlines, was crushed
under the fascist heel on Sep-
tember 11, 1973. But just as the
resistance grows across the length
and breadth of Chile, so does the
future belong to the Chilean
revolution. And just as he was a
participant in its turbulent history,
Boorstein is also sure of the future.

“For the future struggle, the
Chilean Revolution leaves a vision
of a government that fought for the
people and socialism, of the great
revolutionary president who
never buckled, of leaders and
members of all parties of the Left
who resisted fascism at the cost of
death or imprisonment and tor-
ture.

“The struggle Chile faces:

against fascism is arduous and
bitter. But the Chilean people will
no more accept fascism that the
indomitable Araucanians accepted
the rule of the Spanish intruder.”’

To Chile, to his own country, to
revolutionary struggles around the
world, Edward _ Boorstein’s
Allende’s Chile has made a lasting
contribution.

—Sean Griffin

‘CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

\ FOR SALE

Liquid protein 32 oz. $9, Vitamin C
Reg. $3.75 now $2.75. Norburn

. Health Foods, 6667-E. Hastings,
Bby. 299-3727. .

BUSINESS PERSONALS
MOVING? CuKANUP — Wanted
. articles for resale. All proceeds

to P.T. Phone 526-5226. “THE
_ GOODIE BIN.”

Gowelley

Jewellery repairs, remodelling,
appraisals at reasonable charge.
Phone 254-7678. Will pick up and
deliver in Vancouver at no extra
charge.

HALLS FOR RENT |

den

UKRAINIAN CANADIAN
CULTURAL CENTRE — 805
. East Pender St., Vancouver 4.
_ Available for banquets, wed-
dings, meetings. Ph. 254-3436.

‘WEBSTER’S CORNERS HALL —
Available — for banquets,
meetings, etc. For rates: Ozzie,

> 325-4171 or 685-5836.

RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME —
Now available for rentals: For

._ reservations phone 254-3430.

LEGALS

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 9, 1977—Page 7

PROVINCE
BRITISH COLUMBIA
CHANGE OF NAME ACT
[Section 6]

Notice of application

for change of name
NOTICE is hereby given that an
application will be made to the
Director of Vital Statistics for a
change of name, pursuant to the
“Change of Name Act”, by me,
Sara Frances Eyerley of 1749
Bayswater in Vancouver, in the
Province of British Columbia, as
follows:
To change my name from Sara
Frances Eyerley to Sara Frances
Ballantyne.

Dated this 31st day of August, A.D.
1977.

Sara Eyerley

Classified rates, 50 cents per line.
Deadline Monday 5 p.m. week of
issue.

sri pone tenement nem