[In Argentina, a new decree ¡nas vuuaweu uver…]
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In Argentina, a new decree ¡nas vuuaweu uver qu uvie attorned mira organisations, most of them already on the 'suspended' They include the "Trotskyist' Socialist Workers' Party (PST) as well as Peronist, Maoist and other left organisations.
Notwithstanding its political criticisms of these organisations, Socialist Press gives unconditional support to the protests being made throughout the international labour movement against these gross violations of democratic rights.
We call for a united struggle of workers' organisations to overthrow General Jorge Videla's vicious dictatorship.
PERONIST
An attempt to strangle such a struggle is being made by the ¡former Peronist trade union leadership.
At the time of the coup Casildo ¡Herreras, the secretary general of (the Argentinian General Confederiation of Labour (CGT), was ("accidentally" in Uruguay.
Two weeks ago Videla had him (brought back to Buenos Aires.
The Us ambassador, however, having more foresight than the Argentinian junta persuaded Videla ¡to permit Harreras to leave for Mexico.
From there he went, with US encouragement, to the assembly of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva to use his influence (he is on the ILO administrative council) in discreet support of the Argentinian junta's delegation to the ILO assembly.
The ultra-right death squads continue to have free rein and are responsible for a sharply rising bumber of murders and kidnappings, especially of refugees from other Latin American countries. CHIL Banzer's representative was in congenial company when he attended the conference of the Organisation of American States in Chile. There he was able to rub shoulders with the representatives of Videla, Geisel and others and hear Chilean dictator Pinochet boast of the "new democracy" devoted to defending human rights.
Apparently it was too new even for US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger - not noted for his dedication to human rights - who arrived post-haste from a friendly visit to Banzer in La Paz.
Kissinger told this assembly of murderers that the Us was anxious, even desperate, to hand out vast