From the Communist Party of Chile -

Appeal to the people

The Communist Party of Chile dis-
tributed clandestinely, on Oct. 11, one
month after the coup, an “Appeal to
the Chilean People” of which this is
the complete text.

The military coup of the llth of
September has plunged the country
into a climate of terror and of brutal-
ity without precedent in its history. The
cruelty with which the democratic
movement in its entirety and in par-
ticular the workers’ movement have
been suppressed has no precedent in
our country nor in Latin America. The
only point of comparison is the mas-
sacre unleashed by the coup d’etat in
Indonesia in 1965.

There is not a single act of the
military junta which is not-the abso-
lute negation of all that the popular
government stood to defend. Those
people speak of democracy and they
impose dictatorship; they speak of lib-
erty and they open concentration
camps; they speak of respect to the
individual person and they have made
summary executions their daily bread;
they pretend to defend ideological plur-
alism and autonomy of the universities
and they have militarized them.

In short, a fascist dictatorship has
been installed in our country with the
sequel of crimes and abuses which-
characterize this type of regime. The
plan of the coup as put into effect, its
beastial methods have a foreign origin.
They were brought to the light of day
in the offices of the CIA in direct liai-
son with ITT and Kennecott. For this
effort, a special work group had been
constituted in the Pentagon and in
the White House.

The fascist junta does not represent
to the smallest degree either the na-
tional or the patriotic spirit. It is anti-
patriotic in its essence. It is against
the interests of Chile as an independent
nation. It is nothing but a fascist ap-
pendage in the service of imperialism
and of international reaction.

The same day as the coup, beside the
shores of Chile, maneouvres “Unitas”
took place ,with the participation of
ships and planes from North America.

Several hours after having been con-

stituted the military junta declared a,

state of siege, attacked the constitution
and parliament, after which it has pro-
_ Claimed the suspension of Congress
until “a new order.” The new order is
one which ohe should not expect, since
soon after the two chambers were
closed and the mandate of the deputies
and senators declared cancelled. Those
who a short while ago on all occasions
and without reason made a great up-
roar for the “defence” of legislative
power have not spoken a word this
time. That is the case with Senor Frei,
President of the Senate, and of Senor
Pareto, President of the Chamber, who
have docilely this oppression.

On the 24th of September the junta
announced the dissolution of the muni-
cipal councils, which, as with Parlia-
ment, are elected by universal suffrage.
The municipal authorities will hence-
forth be “elected” by the junta:

They next have decided to name mili-
tary leaders as rectors of all the uni-
versities without exception. They have
equally decided to eliminate from high-
er teaching establishments all Marxist
professors and to proscribe Marxism
from the teaching at university. The
autonomy of the university is dead.

_ They have organized raids in the
purest style of fascism. All the political
liberties have been liquidated. There is

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1973—P.

no more freedom of meetings, of asso-
ciation, nor of oral or written expres-
sion. :

Punitive operations have reached a
Gegree of unprecedented brutality. The
civilian population, above all in the
areas of the people, have been subject
to all sorts of harassments which makes
the blood of even the most indifferent
boil. Violations in the houses cannot
be counted any more. They have beaten
people. They have burned mountains of
books as in the worst days of Hitler-
ism. The shootings can be counted in
the hundreds. The siege was completed
by another deeree which gave carte
blanche to the death penalty.

The right of petition.and of strike of
the workers has been virtually sup-
pressed. The promise of the military
junta not to resort to reprisals abso-
lutely does not correspond with the
facts. The hunting of the militants of
all the parties on the left, of the trade
unions, of rank-and-file workers, is
part of the political reality and the
order of the day. Thousands and thou-
sands of Chilean patriots. from the
most humble friends up to personalities
like Dr. Asenyo, who won the national
prize for science in 1973 have been
expelled from the factories and from
their employment for the sole crime of
having advanced ideas or of sympa-
thizing with them. Witch-hunting does
not seem to have any limjt. More than
ten thousand Chileans are in jail or
confined in real concentration camps,
in the national stadium, or on nearby
islands.

The Blitzkrieg Technique

Foreign policy has made a turn of
180 degrees. This has been preceeded
by facts never seen before in the his-
tory of Chile, such as the attack of
the army against the Cuban Embassy
and the series of provocations against
ships and equipment that was Soviet,
Cuban and German, against technicians
and specialists of these countries, as
well as auxiliary personnel employed
by their diplomatic establishments. One
also has seen unleased ga chauvinist
hysteria against all foreign citizens, a
number of whom are professionals of
high level cooperating with Chile in

the solution of our problems, as well ’
as others who had come to find asylum ~

in our country, who were conforming

.to our laws and in certain cases, at

the demand even of the governments
of Brazil and of Uruguay, which had
released them from their prisons in
return for the liberation of such and
such a kidnapped person,

In the face of this accumulation of
facts which reveals the inaugauration
of a fascist type dictatorship what do
the Christian Democrats say? What po-
sition have they taken of late against
all anti-democratic issues? What have
been their conceptions favorable to
ideological and political pluralism?

We have had the dissident opinion
of parliamentarians and Jeaders of the
Christian Democrats having at their
head such personalities as Radomiro
Tomic, Bernado Leighton, Renan Fuen-
tealba and others who have remained
faithful to their Principles ahd have
publicly repudiated the coup and what
followed. It is honorable of them and
we are persuaded that they speak for
the vast majority of Christian Demo-
crats, whose official leaders compromis-
ed in the conspiracy are pure and
simple traitors, _

Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez and
the permanent committee of the Epis-

copal have sent a declaration which

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ng other things, “We demand
says or for. those who have fallen 2
the fight and in the first place ape :
an who was up until the 11th of ee
a ieer the President of the wet: i
Respect does not appear ona pe 5
Indeed, it is the contrary. The mull ai
junta with the assistance of all ae
sions of the reactionaries have as at
ed an ignoble campaign aimed a on
grating his position. Vultures ae -
forth to shred and devour the body § :
the President but they are ah sik
taken. YOu can never detach sey s
heart of the people the memory 0 Ee
ho, as Allende, have loved their
zs ntry above all else and have fought
aang tens of years for the diberation
of the oppressed and the exploited,
who fall in combat as heroes. 2
The black days that we are living
will pas: And the figure of cae eae
Allende, the President who eae tank
its copper to Chile, who has confron “a
nerialssm and the oligarchy, W
ee made concessions either to flat-
we, nor to threats of the enemy Wie
was loy2! up to his death — this gp
will remain . stamped in the history at
country and of Latin America w!
ae of O'Higgins, Balmaceda, we
barren, Pedro Aguire Cerdo and of s
ny other Chileans who have all given
ie vine country and for the eee
Their detractors in retrospect will no
n have the figures of pygmies,
Ovisat has been done has been con-
ceived Coldly and with premeditation,
starting by the bombing and capes
tion of the Moneda Palace, a bar' rine
for which there will be no ee a
The absolutely useless setae
the preSidential residences, 0 ae
Moro 2d of Canaveral, the mili a
operations against the eige i a
the decrees of the junta, the arrests ot
thousands of our citizens were prone
ed a lof& time ago. As has been on
fessed DY “Mercurio” they have app
the fascist technique of the “blitz-
ae lightning attack on all fronts,

with the aim among others of creating -

i ong the civilian population.
part the oat also knows that the
rious &conomic and financial difficul-
ee we Were having had their origins
ee gn the errors of the one ee
even if they did play their part ae
the enoTmous foreign debt we i ht
herited On taking government, in =

agricultural backwardness of the cou
in the poorness of its infrastruc-
a jp the low price of copper over
et fast two years, in the devaluation
. the dollar, in the closing of lines of
credit ON the part of the United States,
in economic sabotage, in the consider-
able damage provoked by the ieee
rt strikes,” in the vote pf the laws 0
finance and the readjustment of the

es, etc.

eT aca and the oligarchy have
t forBiven President Allende and the
a ylar Unity all that it had done in
Pimatter of the nationalization of the
extractive industries, of the deepening
jcultural reform, of the nationali-
Pt of the banks, of the formation

a public sector of the economy. That -

they wish to bring ae
ent’by any means possible.
goverid sea aa they have often
area this intention and they have
ane ‘put it into execution. They did
not hesitate iti this aim to cause serious
damagé to the Chilean economy.
Lies as a Pretext
In the vain hope of justifying in the
eyes Of national and international
opinio™ they have invented a most

eee ee weet as_ follows:
would have one believe ¢ wrnied
forces had found itself pee iter: :
native either to attack or to be atta ked
with as a beginning its decapitation b
the would-be parliamentary effe ae
of Popular Unity. According t = this
cock-and-bull story Popular Unit, had
the intention of putting this dial, lical
plan into effect on Monday the 7th ee
September, This plan js g gross j :
tion of imperialism and of its Pai
fascist internal allies, They put f one
this fable when they felt the wena :
Ene duane pene indignation ee .
their crimes whic e
versal conscience, Bae ofcoded un
This acount is so

extreme that in
18th of Septem.
interviewed on

is POssible in

" ‘The Fight for the
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But the actual state ot cin I
not be eternal. The lies will not oe wil a
over the truth, nor oppressi¢l revail
liberty, nor fascis n Oe

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Before og the coun) i coo

his regression
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capable of enchaining, ae bee forces -
a long time nor erasing the re ple for —
currents of society, °. Novating

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people, that is why they gee .
state of siege and a curfew’ sou ace
ror, taking total contro} of tel ing ter-
and of radio, closing the left pre mS
pressing the rights of trade uni Ss, sup-
lowing those who do Ons, fol-
do and declaring th
beyond the law. An
benediction and the
false democrats,
The workers and the

will recover from the
recommence without
to control the destiny of the

Ty cou
institutions, leavin ~

decrepid and crin i ;

and the puppet wh = cuacial

Comptroller-Genera} of the R 24

They have brought on iil th epublic.

law. Chile has bec & state of

where there prevail

tution nor the law

mation as of a time

There js practically

not grieve for the

their own. é

But the people wi);

ment and they wil)

liged to be sure

ne situa

will decide dem

constitution, new.cot a ae a new

will create new forms - An =

of law superior to that Lahti

tary junta has thrown do the mili-

such a state of law, all \ jie Under

will be respected, there will be® beliefs.

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