GUERRILLAS REPORTED IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL
Guerrilla action in Brazil was reported to Have occurred at -* two'small towns in Rio Grande do: Sul. Some forty men, according to the dispatch, attacked a post held by military police and seized a quantity of arms.
Authorities in both Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro brushed the report aside as of no importance, but the fact itself was confirmed by the Ministry of War March 26.
The men, - dressed. in the olive-green uniforms of the official armed forces, were headed by a former colonel, Jefferson Cardim de Alencar Osorio and by a former sergeant, Alberi Santos, according ‘to the report. Both were expelled from the army and deprived of all civil rights following. the April 1 coup d'état last year. They were accused of being “linked" to leftist circles.
The guerrilla fighters got away with a machine-gun, . thirty rifles and a case of cartridges. They took over two radio stations and broadcast an appeal.to the.-people of the area to support them and join the National Liberation Movement.
It was rumored that Lionel Brizola, one of the principal victims of last year's coup was the inspirer of the guerrilla force, It was also rumored that he was being financed by the "French Communist party." While the first rumor could not be verified, it is certain that the latter rumor is completely without foundation,
NEW REVOLUTIONARY PARTY FORMED IN ARGENTINA
; The Buenos Aires weekly socialist paper Palabra Obrera LWorkers! Word] reports that the organization if represents has united with the FRIP [Frente Revolucionario Indoamericanista Popular -- Revolutionary Indo-American Popular Front] to constitute a new organization, the Partido Unificado FRIP-Palabra Obrera [United FRIP- Workers' Word party].
The unification of the two organizations, which have participated in many class-struggle actions together, is an encouraging step forward in the difficult task of constructing a mass revolutionary-socialist party capable of winning political power, ending Argentinats dependent status, and opening the road for the construction of a socialist economy.
The speeches and other activities of the delegates at the founding congress, which was held in the north of Argentina at. the end of January, testified to the spirit of solidarity and the high level of political consciousness reached by the two components of the new party. ed
The weekly Palabra Obrera and the biweekly Norte Revolucion= ario were designated as official organs of the new party and the Tollowing program was adopted:
I.
We must immediately solve the two catastrophic plagues from which the workers and the people suffer by immediately applying the following measures:
(1) A fifty per cent increase in wages with no increase in the current prices of consumers goods.
(2) Nationalization under workers! control of the wholesale trade, especialiy in meat and prime necessities, in order to keep prices from rising higher. | ,
(3) Nationalization of every factory, industry, plant or establishment that does not guarantee jobs or fails to pay ona biweekly basis, all the nationalized properties to be placed under workers control,
Il.
Establishment of political democracy in the country and the initiation of a national workers! plan of independent development, to be financed by applying a single tax on the employers of twenty per cent of their real capital, basing this on the following measures:
(1) Repudiation of the concessions and economic debts contracted by the various fraudulent governments with imperialism.
(2) Expropriation without pay of the meat-packing plants, the oil conpanies and the big oligarchical and imperialist companies, the properties to be placed under workers control.
(3) Nationalization of foreign trade and the banking systen. Funds and credits must be placed at the service of the nation.
(4) An agrarian reform based on the expropriation of all property above 100 hectares [1 hectare = 2.47 acres], to be paid with 20-year government bonds; on agrarian resettlement of the country into farms of 50 to 100 hectares; and on credits for tools and lodgings.
(5) Urban Reform. Credit for every worker who wants to build his own home, to be paid back at the rate of ten per cent of his monthly wages.
(6) Reduction of the government bureaucracy by half, moving it toward the agrarian resettlement and toward the new nationalized industries that will be developed. Special credit and temporary aid for the displaced office employees.
IIl.
Complete modification of our international policies. New political and juridical bases:
(1) Dissolution of all the pacts (OAS [Organization of American States], Rfo de Janeiro, Cono Sur, etc.) tying us to imperialism,
(2) Support and unconditional defense of all the noncapitalist countries in face of imperialist attack.
(3) Solidarity with all the anticolonial and anti-imperialist revolutions of the world, and in the immediate and concrete form of Latin-American revolutionary processes,
(4) Unconditional support for and a Federative Union with Socialist Cuba,
(5) For the federative unity of the Latin-American workers and people's states,
IV.
In order to popularize, develop and ultimately put into effect this program:
(1) Create a Single Party of the Argentine Revolution with the unification of all the tendencies that accept this program as have the FRIP and Palabra Obrera.
-(2) Replace the bureaucratic leaderships of the workers movement. Demand the resignation of the leadership of the CGT [General Confederation of Workers]. Put into office new leadershtps and adopt a program in a Rank and File Congress of the' CGT, with delegates elected in the factories, that will reorganize the whole workers movement on antimanagement and antibureaucratic’ bases.
(3) National and regional .congresses of the CGT, with the participation of tendencies that represent the working class and the people, in order to discuss and apply a program embracing the necessities of the region or the country as a whole.
(4) Demand the calling of a completely free and sovereign Constituent Assembly, with the participation of all tendencies, sectors and personalities of the country, particularly General Perén, to institutionalize the program of the CGT and the workers and people's parties,
THE NEW