British and Cuban. Communists

Ask aid to Chilean people

A joint communiqué calling
for increased solidarity actions
On behalf of the people of Chile
and the restoration of demo-
Cracy in that country was issued
by the Communist Parties of
Great Britain and Cuba last
month. The statement came at
the end of a visit to Great Bri-
tain by a delegation from the
Cuban Party. -

“The harrowing news coming
daily from Chile should act as a
Clarion call to all working people
to increase still further their
Solidarity actions on behalf of
the Chilean people now suffering
under one of the worst tyrannies
of this century.

._ the repression, far from eas-
Mg, is actually more intense than
ever,” the communiqué stated.

The declaration went on to
describe the brutal oppression
suffered by the Chilean people,
Including hundreds of arrests
€very week in which those held
are kept without charges or trial
and subjected to the “most ap-
Palling tortures.” Conservative
estimates, it reports, believe that-
“ to 20,000 people have been
illed by the junta’s military and
Police,

Repression including the sup-
Pression of all civil rights, the
ti ning of all trade unions, poli-

cal Parties and other mass or-
ifenizaticns, the outlawing of all
| foctatic media, the abolition
(°F Constitutional democracy and
peeing of universities’ staffs
pend students, has led to mass
Eeealtion to the junta which
€s far beyond the supporters
the Popular Unity govern-
ent, the report stated.
het voted inside Chile, Pino-
fare ju’ his fascist collaborators
if ely isolated interna-
iprese y as well. The junta’s re-
Ntatives are met with scorn
hostility everywhere they

fan
Po.”

Fangtough the United States
a or imperialist powers op-
cnt it, the United Nations re-
Beary adopted a resolution con-
regi ng the Chilean military
| sie for its denial of human

!

By SERGIO PINEDA

one xICo CITY — The press,
Aes circles and high gov-
ea ss Officials criticized the.
States Tade law of the United
Fons. Which imposes restric-
Bounties the Latin American
een The U.S. law was de-
Feasler 5 negative” by Julio
"M...c’ director general ‘of the

€: 5
nCIMCE). Foreign Trade Institute

€ rebirth of dollar diplo-
Ele deputies and sena-
measure general said that the
fAgaingt ae a negative reaction
jitries 5, € Third World coun-
ident ene of their indepen-
Poses pease The U.S. law im-
ally ssa ay restrictions especi-
, Banizatic © members of the Or-
ifing ¢ 10n of Petroleum Export-
Cuntries (OPEC).
e he of the IMC said
limit... preferential system ‘has
eons which worry us, con-
40 aed which prevent Mexi-
tries - other developing coun-
tial i Sai fully using the poten-
ontin the U.S. market. The law,
ity 5 ued Feasler, “gives author-
© the President of the

i j
lit abe newspaper El Dia called

rights and calling for the imme-
diate release of all political pri-
soners. And recently in Britain
the Labour Party Conference
with the message to Chileans:

‘You do not stand alone,’ resolv- .

ed to oppose any concessions to
Chile in connection with its
foreign debts. The joint commu-
niqué welcomed this decision
and urged people to make the
slogan a reality.

“Put the fascist'junta of Chile
in quarantine. Let us strive to
ensure that no aid whatsoever—
economic, military, or political—
goes to Pinochet and his gang-
sters.”

The statement also called for
a campaign for the release of
Louis Corvalan, Bautista Van
Schouwen, Laura and Marianne
Allende, Gustavo Ruz and all
other political prisoners.

The communiqué was issued

after a tour of ‘Great Britain by -

| Mexico critical of
_new US. trade laws

United States to establish re-
stricticns on imports, which
will harm the néeds of the un-
derdeveloped countries who
want more world trade”.

“There you have what is really
the new dialogue of Mr. Kissin-
ger” — said the economist and
deputy, Horacio Labastida. He
said that the restrictions and the
elimination of customs privi-
leges are fundamentally aimed
against Venezuela, Ecuador, Tri-
nidad-Tobago, Peru and other ail
exporters. Those nations, he
stated, must now receive the
solidarity of all Latin America
and the Third World in order to
struggle against the attacks of
the imperialist policy.

Jesus Medellin and. Jose Luis
Mercado, members of the Mexi-
can Congress, told the press
that the “New Trade Law of the
U.S. is a reprisal against the
policy of defending natural re-
sources formulated in the United
Nations by the Third World
countries”. El Sol de Mexico, a
Conservative newspaper, said
that the law is not only restric-
tive but also unbalanced and
damaging. So

the Cuban delegation. Talks
were held with trade union and
cooperative officials, shop stew-
ards, labor MPs and councillors,
Ron Hayward, general secretary
of the Labour Party, and Com-
munist Party leaders. -During
eight days of travel the Cuban
visitors met many working peo-

“ple at receptions and social

functions. and addressed public
meetings.

Copper barons

happy again

After a year described as the
most critical in the country’s
history, the Chilean military
junta has announced four com-
pensation payments to United
States corporations whose hold-
ings were nationalized by the
Popular Unity government be-
fore the coup.

The companies are those who
had involvement in the coup
which overthrew the constitutio-
nally elected government of
Salvador Allende. They are In-
ternational Telephone and Tele-
graph* and the three copper
giants, Cerro Corporation, Ken-
necott and Anaconda Copper
corporations. The total amount

involved is more than $264-mil- -

lion.

ITT will receive $125.5-million
of which a downpayment of $21-
million will be made immedi-
ately and the remainder paid in
instalments through. 1987.

Anaconda Copper is to be paid
$12-million for a single mine
which was nationalized three-
and-one-half years ago. Cerro
will receive $59-million, payable
over ten years and Kennecott
will be paid $68-million over a
12-year period. ~

The copper corporations also
made more than $4.5-billion
from their Chilean holdings from
1922 to 1970.

In the time since the coup

occurred the junta has returned

over 300 nationalized companies
to their former owners and has
violated the Andean Pact
made between Chile, Argentina,
Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, Pa-
nama, Peru -and Venezuela

through its concessions to fore- -

ign investors.

WORLD NEWS

INDIA ACCEPTS PLO TO REPRESENT PALESTINIANS
BEIRUT — The first country outside the Arab world to give

‘diplomatic status to the Palestine Liberation Organization, India

gave recogniticn on Jan. 10 of that organization’s representation of
the Palestinian people.

PLO leaders hailed the agreement as a “very big push forward”
for the organization’s struggle for recognition as official representa-
tive of his people. The agreement includes permission by the Indian
government for the opening of an office of the PLO in that country.

There was no comment on the recognition by the Israeli govern-
ment, which has diplomatic relations with India.

CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES GIVE GREEK WORKERS
STRIKE RIGHTS

ATHENS — Bowing to opposition demands, Greek Premier
Cqnstantine Caramanlis will give certain rights to strike in the
country’s draft constitution. Caramanlis announced that changes
will be made in the constitution after articles concerning the right
to strike, political freedoms and university education were called
totalitarian and outdated by opposition leaders. :

The constitutional changes will give workers the right to strike
for reasons concerning their professional demands. They will also
stipulate that a person can be banished on political grounds only
after a court decision, instead of by administrative action.

While these changes are being implemented, the main target of
attack by opposition, the authoritarian power of the president,
was not modified. Under the draft constitution, that person will
have the right to appoint and dismiss the premier, veto legislation
and dissolve parliament. It is known that Caramanlis is interested
in the post.

3,000 UNEMPLOYED SEEK 225 JOBS

ATLANTA — In a reflection of the anguish over the state of the
economy, 3,000 unemployed stormed the doors of the Civic Centre
auditorium here Jan. 10 after job openings for 225 workers had
been announced. :

“What’s happened here is an indication of what’s happening all
over the country, which is that people are desparate for jobs.
There are 3,000 people here looking for 225 jobs,” Atlanta mayor
Maynard Jackson commented after the job seekers had been
calmed down. A voice from the crowd added to Jackson’s remarks

‘that a majority of the 3,000 people were Black.

A single door in the auditorium had been opened at 8:15 to allow
applicants who had begun lining up at 3 a.m. into the building, but
the frustrated crowd surged forward, smashing two adjoining glass
doors in order to get in. More than 20,000 workers out of the city’s
497,000 are out of work.

STUDENTS IN EGYPT CALL FOR REFORMS

CAIRO—The Federation of Cairo University students has issued
a statement calling for reforms including wage increases and fin-
ancial incentives for workers.

The Egyptian cabinet decided over the weekend to try to. cope
with food shortages by importing extra wheat, sugar, tea and meat.

The call by the students and the government move follow sharp
clashes last week with the police by demonstrators calling for
lower prices and higher wages.

In the last few days, all the members of what The Middle East
News Agency calls an underground Communist organization have
been arrested, along with 120 other people.

AFRICANS STRIKE AFTER CLASHES

Nearly 12,000 Black South African mine workers went on strike
at the Vaal Reefs gold mine, Orkney, Jan. 6 after a night of clashes
in which five of the miners were seriously injured.

A spokesman for the Anglo American group, which controls Vaal
Reefs, said apartheid regime police used tear gas to “restore order”
when migrant laborers from Lesotho protested over pay rates.

The violence at Vaal Reefs is-the latest in a spate of serious
disturbances at the South. African gold mines during the past year.

More than 50 black miners have died violently during this period,
most of them killed by the apartheid regime’s police attempting to
crush protests over appalling pay and conditions.

MOSCOW — Portuguese Foreign Minister M. Soares (left) with-

Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko at the beginning of Portuguese-
USSR talks earlier this month.

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