PARIS: The last fortnight has seen a notable upsurge in activity around Chile. Forty thousand people 10ok part in the igternational demonstration on Sunday 9 December, including contingents from Belgium, 5witzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Britain, Austria, and Holland, while twa days before, 50 Young Communists occupied the Chilean Embeesy to demand the relase of Chilean CP leader Luis Corvalan and all political prisoners.
On Saturniay 15 December, 60 militants of the Socialist Party occupied the offices of the LANChile airline to proteet at the collsboration of the French government with the junta, However, the most dramatic action took place the following morning at 8 an when supporters of the Paris-based Committee for the Support of the Revolutiorary Struggle of the Chilean People, which includes our comrades of Rouge, occupied the hotel where Chilean lorry-owners" leader Lean Villarin www staying. Villarin is on a European A section of the Paris demonstration tour to promote the junta, and openty declanes that way for the coup. He was barricaded in his room for mant than three hours before police dispersed the damonstrators, Mearwhile, the attempt by the French fascists of Pawe Front to nold a meeting in support or tre Chilan junta on Wednesday had to be celled off after the tirest of a massive resconse from the eh. Learning from the events of June, when the Communist Langue was banned after a counter-demonstration against a fascist masting, even the Communist Party took part this time in preparations for a united left mobilisation, As a result, the fascists were denied a hall for their meeting, and when they announced a demonstration instead the police preferred to avoid a confrontation with the left by promptly benning it.
MARSEILLES: The borreing of the Algerian consulte lost triday, in yamien rour peope dino has met with a mussive response from immigrant workers, Over eight thousand of them took part in the tuneral march on sunday, sroudog menant slogans against racism; and a number of protest strikes took place on Monday, largely on the initiotive of the unofficial Movement of Arab Workers. This deturn ined respong? follows on from the eari jer
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