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Red Weekly No. 132, 8 January 1976 · p. 12 of the scan · 333 words

The scan: rw-no132-jan-8-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 12 of the scan

Photo: CHRIS DAVIES (Report) "Thanks for everything, Harold' WEEKLY ed by the junta; nothing about the 95,000 people arrested since the coup in September 1973, many of nothing about the ruthless crushing of the Chilean workers' organisaGOnS hands of a foreign government.' had been tortured while being held by the junta's police.

The Foreign Secretary said nothing about the 15,000 people murderwhom were also tortured and thousands of whom are still held. He said Callaghan was and is concerned imperialist dignity - which explains The Cassidy affair has neverthethe solidarity campaign in this conacross the front page of almost every daily newspaper. Now is the perfect opportunity to press home the demDRSHE LA CASS DY Obfuscation from President Pinochet of Chile speaking in Madrid: 'We have no political One of the junta's torture camps at Chacabuco These were the carefully chosen words James Callaghan used to announce the recall of the British Ambassador from Chile after the revelation that Dr Sheila Cassidy The effect that such action would have in Chile cannot be doubted. Despite the scabbing of the Labour leaders and their colleagues elsewhere, the solidarity campaign mounted by the labour movement internationally over the last two years has isolated Chile to such an extent that serious splits are now reported inside the regime. The third-ranking army officer General Stark resigned last weekend, and this is believed to reflect an internal power struggle in which opposition to Pinochet is being masterminded by air force commander General Leigh.

Reactionary Leigh is every bit as reactionary as Pinochet, but the very fact of a split can only strengthen the determination of the resistance to finish with the whole regime. Labour can further aid this process by hitting the junta where it hurts most.

Despite the Government's refusal to renegotiate the repayment of Chile's debts, nothing has been done to enforce this. But the means are For a start, the two submarines under construction for the Chilean navy must not be delivered. Chilean

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