RISING Recent information recoived From Argentina Indicates that a systematic aggravation of the antiworker repression unleashed by the military junta is occurring almest day by day. It Is urgent to tear off the mask of "moderation" the junta has deliberately donned for foreign consumption, a mask that has been accepted as corresponding to reality not only by a part of the western press, but even by Pravda, The number of worker and political militants in prison now excends 14,000, among them 150 members of the Partido Socialista de los Trabajodores (Socialist Worken Party), sympathizing organization of the Fourth Intemational in Argentina. Summary executions carried out by the parallel police of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance type are going full steam ahead, They are increasingly being carried out by the army itself. For example, Three political prisonens were executed En Córdoba and four in Bahia Blanca at the beginning of May. The dictatorship relies on its consorship to present these summary exocutions as the results of escope attempts or clashes among armed groups; but most of the time it is a motter of cold-blooded murder of unarmed prisoners. On Apcil 29 General Benjamin Menerdez, military commander of Cordoba, ordered the burning of thousands of Marist books conflicated from the book stores of that city. The bonfire look place in the base of the Tourteenth paratrooper regiment. A communiqué of the third army corps openly justified it, claiming that it is necessary "to prevent this literatuce from continuing to lead our you thi astray." At the same time, a first important strike has taken place, in the General Motors foctories, in solidarity against the arreit off trade-union delegates. In spite of an army intervention in the factory, the worken held Firm and managed to win the release of their comrades. Some smaller strikes have also been reported, The economic situation of the workers has worsened considerably. Ir is estimated that the average real wage has dropped 35 percent since the military junta come to power. 38 Editeur respontable: René Groslambert, 34 rue Nothomb, 1040 Brukelles