Declaration of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International 6 university students, doctors and lawyers, professionals, and all people today oppressed by the dictatorship. We call for solidarity with the political prisoners, with the struggle against repression in the prisons, against the repression in the streets, against the dictatorship. Active solidarity of all workers and all peoples!
For the right of association, strikes and demonstrations!
For the release of the political prisoners and the return of the exiles! Amnesty! For the dissolution of the repressive bodies! For the freedom of the Catalan, Galician, and Basque peoples crushed by Francoist centralism! Down with the dictatorship! Issued by political prisoners of the Segovia prison, members of the ETA, FAC, LCR-ETA(VI), PCE, and independents. O October 6, 1974 Comrade Miguel Enriquez, general secretary of the MIR, has been murdered by the hangmen of the Santiago military junta. Carmen Castillo, who was with Enriquez during the attack of Pinochet's gangsters, was seriously wounded and is now being held at the mercy of the repressive forces. The disappearance of Miguel Enriquez from the political scene is a heavy blow to the MIR and to the whole Latin American revolutionary movement. Enriquez made an essential contribution to the creation and development of the MIR ever since its 1967 congress, at which he was elected general secretary. He tried to create a combat organization based above all on the experiences of the Cuban revolution and the heroic struggle of Che Guevara. Miguel Enriquez died in combat and his sacrifice is testimony to the combative spirit of the Chilean revolutionary vanguard, which has rejected all compromise with the dictatorship and is prepared to plunge into the hardest battles. His declarations after the coup never fell into mind less optimism; on the contrary, they stressed the enormous difficulties that revolutionaries and all militants of the workers movement confronted and would continue to confront. At the same time, they revealed a lu-