Declaration of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International into the streets for chile on september 11,1944!
FAC ISM TOp DEMFAr CHILE 5 CHILE S TOINT On September 11, 1974, one year will have gone by since the Chilean army seized power in a bloody putsch, massacring thousands of workers, peasants, students, and militants of workers organizations. Since then it has continuously tortured the toiling masses of the country by the most barbaric means: "legal" and extralegal assassinations; arbitrary arrest and torture; frame-up "trials" that cynically trample on any elementary right of defense; massive firings in the factories and state bodies; brutal and unprecedented crushing of the standard of living of the masses. The crimes committed by the junta have deservedly provoked the indignation of the workers of the entire world. Pinochet and company are hated butchers like the Hitlers, the Mussolinis, the Salazars, the Francos, the Batistas, the Diems, and the Thieus. These murderers of their own people will end by being ground to dust -- the fate of all those who seek to maintain the owning classes in power by drowning all demands and all protest movements of the toiling masses in blood. But reprobation and indignation at the crimes of the Chilean military junta have little effectiveness sg long as they remain passive and purely verbal. This is all the more true in that international big capital, which contributed to the preparation and victorious outcome of the September 11, 1973, putsch, is multiplying its acts of support and encouragement to the Santiago butchers, with the complicity of most of the governments of the world. That is why the movements of solidarity with the Chilean popular masses that have been organized in many countries and have mobilized hundreds of thousands of people in meetings, demonstrations, and strikes or boycott action play an eminently important role. By keeping alive the consciousness of the broadest masses about the crimes committed against the
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Chilean workers, they restrict the maneuvers of capitalists and governments aimed at supporting the junta, and they constitute a real encouragement to the organization of the resistance of the Chilean workers to the dictatorship that is oppressing them. By organizing simultaneous demonstrations all over the world for September 11, 1974, to protest against the bloody putschists of Santiago and to support the Chilean popular masses the international workers movement would considerably augment the effectiveness of its action against the junta and would greatly encourage the resistance of the Chilean proletariat. For this reason the Fourth International calls upon all workers', political, and trade-union organizations to organize on the basis of the broadest unity and without any exclusion for powerful street demonstrations against the Chilean military dictatorship on September 11, 1974. It calls on all trade-union organizations and workers to complement these demonstrations with actions to interdict the shipment of military or paramilitary matériel to the Chilean junta and with actions to force the governments of their respective countries, especially those governments whose members claim allegiance to the workers movement, to halt all credits and all financial aid to the assassins of the Chilean people. Everyone in the streets September 11, 1974, to demand: * DOWN WITH THE CHILEAN MILITARY DICTATORSHIP! * FREE ALL CHILEAN POLITICAL PRISONERS FROM THE JAILS AND EXECUTION BLOCKS! * LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE OF THE CHILEAN TOILING MASSES TO BRING DOWN THEIR OPPRESSORS AND EXPLOITERS! * NOT ONE WEAPON, NOT ONE SHIP, NOT ONE PENNY FOR THE ASSASSINS OF THE CHILEAN PEOPLE! * LONG LIVE THE CHILEAN SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!
and peronismn?
ARGENTINA the death Of peron.. by S. LOPEZThe death of General Perón was announced on July 1. Several days of severe illness had prepared public opinion for this inevitable end. We referred to the possibility of Perón's