miguel enriquez
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* The working class, the oppressed of Chile, and the militants of the MIR are in mourning at the same time that they are raising the banner of unity against the dictatorship. The general secretary of the MIR, comrade Miguel Enriquez, has fallen in courageous struggle, after having resisted the assault of his enemies for two hours, rifle in hand. At his side was his comrode Carmen Castillo, seven months pregnant, who was wounded and arrested by the dictatorship. With the death of Miguel Enriquez the Chilean working class lore: its bravest and most indefatigable organizer of resistance to the dictatorship. The MIR loses its general secretary, founder, and incontestable chief. Bur Miguel Enriquez has left behind on example of struggle and a party that will continue to follow him and will be the nightmare of Pinochet and his henchmen. The work of the general secretary does not end with his death. The MIR comes out of this difficult test strengthened and tempered, determined not to retreat a single step in its struggle against the dictatorship. Another member of the Political Commission of the MIR has taken up the general recretary's rifle and has taken command of the party. The party of Miguel Enriquez has men who will know how to take over for him and will be true to his example and his memory. The heroic death of Miguel Enriquez will amplity still more the work of this man, who was hardly thirty years old of the time of his death.
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BRITAIN WILSON by JOHN ROSS. At first glance, the October 10 elections in Britain and the campaign preceding them appeared to have a most extraordinary character. Here is a country that every commentator, bourgeois and Marxist alike, agrees is in the throes of the worst economic and social crisis of any country in Western Europe, with the possible exception of Italy - It is also a country whose last government was brought down essentially by the threat of extraparliamentary working-class action led by the miners. In spite of all this, the election of October 10 was preceded by the least apen show of enthusiasm or ogitofion of any election in years. The pre-election lack of enthusiosm was capped by an abstention rate in the voting that shocked even the leadership of the victorious Labour party. The voting returns did indicate a shift of slightly more than 3 percent in the most working-class areas toward Labour. But the abstention rate in the election was significantly up --by around 6-7%. Most significantly of all, this abstention was concentrated in the working class. In some of the central working class districts abstentions were as much as 12-15 percent higher than in February! The evening vote in the October 10 elections was the lowest in years, a reflection of the high abstention rate among workers, who generally vote after work. In fact, it was revealed after the voting that a projection poll based on the number of votes that hod been cast up to 8:15 p.m. and assuming that the nighttime (largely Labour) vote would attain its usual levels predicted that Labour would carry the election by 100 seats! Nevertheless, it would be a mistake to be taken in by the apparent somnolence. Gigantic social forces clashed in the crisis in Britain lost winter. They have not ceased to operate since then. The apparent tranquility of the elections was not a product of an absence of underlying tension, but rather of a surfeit of it. The situation was like one of those wrestling matches in which the two contestants strain every muscle, but