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tons of its patrons, of the oligar-
* learly, the majority of the people do
the accept the state of affairs created by .
a ppley of the junta and feel that it can-
. ast. But it is also obvious that many
on unclear about the way out. Only if the
Vanced patriots take part in the work of
© Mass organizations will it be possible
x Buide, organize and unite the masses so
to build up sufficient strength to defeat
a dictatorship, to work for victory with-
~~ vecourse to reckless actions.

ee

oy and appropriate to achieve
th Sreatest possible effectiveness of
ose systems.

This article lays us wide open to a new
nam in which U.S. lives and treas-
a will again be squandered in a dirty

ar against a poor and suffering people.
nel the last renewal of this pact in

, Senator Fulbright declared:
Spanish agreement is a classic
ample of how to enlarge the commit-
aad of this country by secret agree-
ents and executive action WITHOUT
W APPROVAL OF CONGRESS...
Pid Should have learned from the tragic
at in Vietnam...A commitment to-
. Y which requires the spending of mon-
z 4nd results in stationing our troops on
“reign soil, contains the prospect that
*‘OMetimes in the future, it might re-
Wuire the spending of human lives.
ssfat prospect now draws near. The

Tess has noted that U.S. and Spanish
\ ops have participated in joint maneu- .
ti to practice “‘putting down a theore-

Cal Elion against the Spanish gov-

en! Soe
ay his October 12, 1974, ‘CBS news-

St, Dan Rather relayed:
es News correspondent Bill Mc-
rhe pam reports from Paris that the
iy Row pouring men and money in
agen in the belief that the country will

the center of the next international

ab Laughlin quotes what he calls reli-
€ and highly placed Western Euro-
Intelligence sources as saying:
CIA is concerned that Spain’s
‘ett wing government, a good ally of
United States, might be ousted .. .
te leaders of the CIA and their coun-
> parts in our military and State De-
Bur rents have reason to be concerned.
a 18 their concern and are their ac-
inter beneficial to the U.S.? Is it in our
by i to maintain a government hated
ur Own people? To continue to spend
tax dollars so badly needed at home
i Prop up this tyranny? To sacrifice the -
rotte of our soldiers and sailors for this
ble 1 5¥Stem? To put the Spanish peo-
oye a new bloodbath? To renew the
I hat makes all this possible?
_ 7Say NO! aye
Nob T interest lies ‘in support of the
it ‘a and long-suffering Spanish people;
Ble ag of their aspiration and strug-
Soci Or a decent life and a democratic
ety. Their cause is the cause of all
Thecot®: of all mankind.
dom Spanish people will win their free-
Witho But they will win it sooner and
devare. an enormous cost of blood and
inte tation if our government does not
TVene on the side of the oppressors.
break the gathering storm ‘begins to
» We must raise the cry, and force
80vernment to heed this cry:

._ BANDS OFF SPAIN!”

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Experience has shown that in many

_cases it is possible to rally one or another

section of the people to actions in support
of concrete demands which, though often
small in scale, nevertheless help to expose
the demagogy of the junta, to restore the
people’s confidence in their strength, to
consolidate the unity of the popular ranks,
to overcome the hostile sertiment culti-
vated by the class enemy, and to pave the
way to eventual large-scale action.

It is necessary to learn to move forward
from the simple. to the complex, from a
multiplicity of scattered actions associated
with the problems of the day to the elabor-
ation of concrete platforms that would
make it possible to unite these numerous
separate actions into a powerful stream
and thereby win more and more significant
victories. | eee

The way to do this is pointed out by the
working class. The most important thing
today is the restoration of trade union
rights, primarily the right to put forward
demands and to strike. Many trade unions
have won wage increases over and above
the limits allowed by the junta. Proceed-
ing from this, national federations are de-
manding the restoration of the right to ne-
gotiate collective bargaining agreements
and a return to the wage level of January
1973. Such a demand has been advanced by
the ‘Copper Workers’ Confederation. Be-
sides, a number of federations are insisting
on their right to participate in the drafting
of the proposed reforms of the Labor
Code, social security system, and the so-
cial status of enterprises, resisting the fas-
cist junta’s attempts to decide these ques-
tions without the participation of the par-

ties concerned. All these are justified de-

mands.

Finer the brutal repression is arous-.
ing anger among millions of Chileans. Soli-
darity with the persecuted, those who have
been killed, tortured and thrown into pris-
on, and with their relatives is becoming
more and more a cause’ espoused by the
broad masses. New forms of action inspir-
ed by the finest humane feelings cherished
by our people are emerging everywhere.
This creates a broad basis for united mass
action.

Another essential aspect of work among
the masses is the illegal, underground ac-
tivity of the anti-fascist organizations and
the people in general. Legal and illegal
work constitute a single whole and must
complement each other. At present it is
only in the underground that the structure
of the political organizations of the people,
which the junta is out to destroy in order to
perpetuate the rule of monopoly capital for

‘ all time, can be preserved. Only through

clandestine organization can the character
of the junta, its crimes and anti-national

_actions be publicly exposed, its obscuran-

tist ideology combated, and the possibility
preserved, despite the difficult conditions,
of guiding, organizing and uniting the nu-
merous popular actions. Clandestine work

will be the more effective and significant

the closer it is linked with the struggle
waged by the broad masses, and especially
if.it is conducted with and by the masses. .
From all this it follows that the popular
movement must reject the path of terror,
of action by small groups, of adventurism.
To take this path would mean playing into
the hands of fascism.. The year of domina-
tion by the oppressors has shown that the
dictators would like to impel .the popular
movement towards actions of this order,
since this would give them a pretext to”

seize upon to justify their crimes. The fact
is that when the democratic movement,
demonstrating its maturity, did not provide
them. with. the pretext they wanted, they
organized provocations such as the attack
on the Bank .of Chile which was used to
cover up the killing of Miguel Enriquez and
to divert attention from the heinous murder
of General Prats and his wife.

It is essential to prevent the emergence
and spread of tendencies passively to wait
for a nonexistent solution to be served up
from somewhere beyond the bounds of the
mass movement. The junta is spreading
rumors about the establishment of a gov-
ernment in exile and the formation of arm-
ed groups outside the country with the ob-
ject of taking over power. The main pur-
pose of this invention is to discredit the
powerful international solidarity move-
ment as “‘interventionism,’’ and also to
doom the popular masses to inactivity.

Needless to say, the great day of the
people’s triumph will come, but it will

- come only if the millions of Chileans wage

a mass struggle within the country, if-an
organized character is imparted to the pro-
test actions everywhere and all patriots
are united in the Anti-Fascist Front.

The solution of the tasks arising from
the existing situation requires the presence
and militant activity of a strong Commun-
ist Party.

The first organizations of the Commun-
ist Party of Chile came into being in the
pampas:at a time when the working peo-
ple, deprived of all rights and lacking or-
ganization, were the pariahs of society. The
conditions then were extremely difficult,
yet the Party founded by Recabarren.
struck deep root among the proletariat and

the Chilean people in general, and became ~
‘a cardinal factor of social development in

the country. , .
_ Its patriotic, profoundly national char-
acter is confirmed by. its entire history,

Soviet poster for solidarity with the Chilean people.

and also by the fact that all attempts to de-

. Stroy it failed.

The Communist Party and its youth
organization cannot be destroyed, for they
accord with the vital interests of the work-
ing class and the Chilean people in general.

Though compelled to go underground,
we have not ceased and will not cease to be
a mass Party. Our clandestine work hinges
not on being conducted in secret, behind
locked doors, or on huge material means.
It is being carried on and will be carried on
with the participation of thousands upon
thousands of families who from the very
start of the mass repressions opened the
doors of their homes to the persecuted and
are helping our underground organizations.
This mass style in clandestine work is pos-
sible because the affection cherished by the
people towards the Party of the working
class is more powerful than the hatred of
our enemies.

Mass underground work.is made possi-
ble also by the firmness of the Commun-
ists’ convictions. Since the dictatorship
was established, heavy blows have been
levelled at us, thousands of members of the
Party and its youth organization and many -
of its prominent leaders, including our Gen-
eral Secretary Comrade Luis Corvalan,
have been arrested. Many have been exe-
cuted by firing squads or tortured to
death, but from no one have the fascists
been able to extract information jeopardiz-
ing any organization or leader working in
the underground.

Because of all this the dictatorship can-
not destroy our Party. It may still deal
heavy blows to us, but more and more
Party leaders will emerge from that inex-
haustible source — the working class and
the Chilean people in general.

We, the Communists, are imbued with
optimism which gives us confidence in vic-
tory. Together with our allies we shall be
the reliable vanguard in the struggle

‘ against the dictatorship, in the search and.

preparation of a solution according with
the interests of the people and the revolu-

- tion. We are confident that the Chilean peo--

ple will build the broadest coalition in its
history to put an end to the dark night of
fascist rule.

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