to try its political prisoners. These Two series of trials are of particulis its massive show-trial of 57 members 'ILLEGAL' REGIME and is now being disbarred.
after a week's heavy fighting in which most Ebewhere in the area, Bien Hoa airbase The NLF activity is must aimed, as yet, at arrested after the coup.
is to lie up vast nambers of Thie's army and which the crials bave bood openly staged Most importantly, however, it emphasises Almost exacdy 10 years after their first open crable period of time.
This leaves the insurgent Pather Lao with Supporters of the Chile Solidarity Campeign picket the Chile copper corporation (CODELCO) office in London last Friday in protest et the European tour of the junta's Minister of Mines, Arturo Yovana. signed as a result of maltreatment by the authorities was promptly banned from further participation in the court, sort.
SHOW OF STRENGTH A minor elemeot in the trials has heen the junta's attempt to demonstrate that it goes through normal" judicial proced unes, This has been necessary hoth beçnuse of the massive world solidarity mownent ей іл нестосу against the junta and also in onder to steal the clothes of the internal Christian Domvad poston, woo Rave boon making much of the need to try the prisoners However it is clear from the way in with complete disregard for the clemen tary "rights" of the defendants that this is not their maio purpose. What the junta mends to show by these crials is that it is in complete control of the country.
It is certam Bral this inessnge will not be ibissed by capitalists all over the work when they are considering where to place their investments. The junta aims to show that Chile can guarantee the soct of social arability and repression that can be retiod on to yield vary high profits for a consid The junta also wants to make sure that this message is not missed by the workers in Cale. In particular - by setting the precedent that the Allende government was illegal and that therefore even the most minor act of support for the Popula Unity during its Linee years in government was also illegal - the junta has gained a powerful weapon of intimidation. Now any the junta. worker can presumably be tried for attendRod Weekly ing Popular Unity demorstrations, publi meetings or any otber minor sction of this CORVALAN TRIAL -The second important series of trials involves many of the prominent leaders of the Popular Unity goveroment. In pantrast to the Air Force trials, these are to be closed, and their opening date is shroud Among thase to be tried are Luis Corvalan, General Secretary of the Communisr Party, and at kust five other ex-ministers of the Popular Unity government It is not clear whether the trials have apened yet, though some reports suggest that they began last Friday, 7 June. The charges have also bot been announced, though it is likely that Corvalan and his ministerial colleagues will be charged It is vital that the world solidarity ts up both these series o political trials and demands the immediастола a parcuany eponn ая то junta is clearly using the events to tighten still furtber its grip on the Chilean workers in Britain the Chile Solidacity Campaign must ouganise a whole series of protest actions to denounce these trials. In aldit son, the blacking actions that have alrendy been taken should he extended to cover obber areas oi trade with Chile, such-as copper. It is by steps such as this that con of the Chilean workers and peasants against GERRY CORBY Pag
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