[General Jorge Videla's military anta has launched massive…]
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General Jorge Videla's military anta has launched massive iepression against the working class and its organisations. : The right to strike and negotiate pollective terms and conditions are raspended. Hundreds of workers ave already been convicted of Parimes' against these restrictions ad imprisoned for up to ten years * summary court martials. The amber of arrests since the coup is ow put by observers at over 3,000.
Government measures are backed up by the vicious activities of the ultra-right triple-A and Liberators of America commando groups • (the latter organised by Goacral Benjamin Menendez). Since organisations.
This. fierce repression is necessary to back up the economic policy of finance minister Martinez de Hoz. This is based on restoring capitalist profitability through wage control, the continuation of inflation, tax changes which assist profits, the sacking of about 500,000 public employees and selling off state enterprises to private capitalists. Such measures add up to huge real wage cuts and unemployment.
Leaders of the workers movement have continued the treacherous conciliation which belped the coup to take place. A group of leaders of the peronist CGT (the main trade won - 81
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In this attitude they represent the interests of the native Turkish capitalists against the world impersupport from workers and la MPs in Parliament. But the 1 coup saw the ILP closed dow