Chile Minis
Socialist Press1979 1979-09-19Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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The sixth anniversary of the military coup which overthrew the Chilean Popuity Committee march and rally in London last Sunday.
A large number of exiled Chilean families joined with delegations from trade unions and political parties in a demonstration nearing 3,000 strong, which included national banners of a few of CSC's affiliated trade unions.
As with similar protests in the past five years, the organisers' dominant slogan was "the people united will never be defeated" , roared most enthusiastically by the numerous contingents from the Communist It was an ironic and poignant reminder of how little the catastrophic end to President Allende's "people's peaceful road to socialism" has changed the disastrous Popular Front strategy of the reformists and Workers Socialist League members and supporters, …in sharp contrast, shouted calls for an end to Popular Frontism and for labour movement blacking of all Chilean trade.
Predictably, neither political point was even referred to in the Trafalgar Square rally..:
TGWU leader Moss Evans employed similar rhetoric, and referred to the support from his union for the previous week's token Chile boycott organised by the ICFTU.
He made no comment on the recently announced deal between the junta and BL for 2,000 Minis which will involve TGWU labour from the Longbridge factory and on the docks and is a ready made candidate for the necessary blacking action which the TGWU has consistentiy refused to implement.
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