[CP General Videla's murderous national Stalinism. The small…]
Socialist Press1977 1977-01-19Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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CP General Videla's murderous national Stalinism.
The small Argentine Communist Party, despite the murder of some of its own militants by the police, continues to give tacit support to the regime.
The same applies to the official press agencies of Cuba and the Soviet Union.
Both countries give material support to the Videla regime by being two of its most important trading partners.
They support a regime which, through terror and repression, has wi working class living standards in half is the last year.
According to the government's OWn figures, the cost of living in 1976 rose 350% while wages only went up 150%.
Despite Videla's efforts to crush the trade unions, workers have continually fought back.
The recent strike at Chrysier during which three executives of the. company were shot dead, produced a 100% wage increase.
PANAMA
The 'left talking dictator of PANAMA, General Torrijos, another of Fidel Castro's friends is learning fast from Videla and has unleashed a new wave of anti-working class measures.
It is, his Labour Minister said, 'the hour of free enterprise'. In power for eight years through the support of trade union leaders, the Cuban and soviet governments and the local Communist Party.
The regime is now changing its tone from its earlier "anti-imperialism" towards an explicitly extreme right wing line.
It is restoring good relations with the United States; and some of the more 'left'-talking military officers have now been forced to follow workers' and peasants' leaders into exile..
"CONSTRUCTIVE'
The regime has "relaxed" some of its recent répressive measures by allowing seven banned magazines to re-appear, providing they restrict themselves to 'constructive' journalism.
Six of the magazines are explicitly right wing. The seventh is Unidad (Unity), the weekly of the Communist Party, which thus gets its reward for collaborating with the forces of repression.
Throughout Latin America, a continent dominated by military dictatorships, Stalinism is nothing but an open apologist for the most glaring forms of reaction.
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right-wing dictatorship in Argentina continues to be helped by local and inter-