anarchistwnveehty ■y V Volume 34 No* 34 * v |H 25 Augist, 1973 On November 11th last the present Allende hag survived the elect­ raent; it is too soon to know vriter wrote in FREEDOM of the ion, an abortive military coup, whether he can be identified prospects of Allende's Marxist a naval mutiny and the assassina­ with Calvo SoletO whose murder programme in Chile being carried tion of his naval aide-de-camp. precipitated the Spanish Civil out democratically. It was He is weathering inflation, a War or with Kirov, who gave pointed out that Allende had only lorry-drivers' strike, a copper- Stalin the excuso ( i f any were made half a revolution and was miners' strike, workers' occupa­ needed) for his terror. thereby digging his own grave. tion of factories and a series of Events since then have confirmed The grievance of the lorry cabinet crises with military per­ owner-drivers (6,500 drivers this thesis, but Allende has suc­ sonnel flittin g in and out. ceeded in winning an election, with 5,000 vehicles, according staying in power by virtue of One can resist anything except to The Times) is that the State easing the m ilitary in and out of temptation (as Oscar Vilde said) monopoly, Mopare, which is only his cabinet. Nothing very revo­ and there is the temptation for 5°/o of the lorries in Chile, has a lutionary seems to have happened. a student of modern political monopoly of spare parts and new In fact, Allende, and whoever history to discern sinister paral­ vehicles imported into the seems to be his a lly at the mo­ le l events recurring. The current country. The lorry drivers (who ment, are united in suppressing history of Chile's so-called seem by no means to be large anything really revolutionary. 'Democratic Marxist revolution' firms but simply one-lorry own­ discloses sinister parallels with ers, that is to say small capit­ Allende won his election but the so-called Russian Bolshevik alists) want renewal of equip­ got in on a minority vote with Revolution. The lorry drivers' ment, a reasonable supply of the aid of an uneasy electoral strike has some affinity with the tyres, batteries and spare parts. alliance with the Christian Demo­ peasants' resistance to forcible They are also requesting a real­ crats. It has been claimed (by collectivization. The most sub­ istic tariff structure and social professors from the law faculty stantial left-wing mutiny (so far) security. of the Catholic University of occurred in the navy and 300 Such is the geography and r a il­ Santiago) that there were irregu­ sailors are reported under arrest way deficiency in Chile that this larities in the congressional (some it is alleged have been comparatively small strike seems election (which returned Allende tortured), providing a parallel to be paralysing Allende's sys­ to power) last March. The pro­ with Kronstadt. The assassina­ tem. I f one believes that the fessors claim that possibly tion of Captain Arturo Araya, worker is entitled to the use- 200,000 votes were duplicated in Allende's naval aide-de-camp was ownership of the tools of his the election but i t is not known accredited to the right-wing for whom they were cast. 'Fatherland and Liberty' move- Continued on Page 7 ... u p TICKS NEW GOVERNMENT plans for re­ they moved out essential machinery structuring the Lip watch-making and computer parts. These have factory at Besancon in France been hidden away along with sev­ have been rejected by the trade eral tons of documents and plans, unions following the police' with 60,000 watches which workers dawn raid and eviction of workers are continuing to sell at reduced from the factory. M. Jean prices. In fact they even man­ Charbonnel, the Minister for aged to sell them in the restaur­ Industrial Development has plans ant of the Ministry of Industrial to split Lip into four loosely- Development in Paris just six HAVE YOU NOTICED H0V YOUNG linked companies. These include hours after the police raid. THE DEMONSTRATORS ARE GETTING? the different divisions, such as The French authorities obviously watch-making, machine tools, thought that a massive show of C.G.T. and the. Socialist C.F.D.T. armaments and mechanical engin­ strength against the work-in was trade unions, with both the eering. Yet another company w ill the best means of ending what was Communist and Socialist parties, be set up to absorb any redundant fast becoming a very large thorn have been careful not to incite too much action and especially workers but so far no clearly in their flesh. From the first condemned any violence on the worked out plans have been put reaction to the raid there has part of trade unionists. But forward and negotiations are been considerable display of soli­ still in progress between the darity and support from other violent clashes have taken place outside Lip, although from re­ Government, the French Industrial sections of workers and the popu­ Development Institute and lation. This, unfortunately, ports it seems none of them in­ Ebauches, S.A., the Swiss com­ might only be for brief periods volved workers from the factory. pany which has the controlling and not long enough to force the Several thousands gathered out­ interest in Lip. government to change its plans. side the factory when they heard the news of the eviction. They However, despite all the solu­ One-hour sympathy strikes by r a il­ wayman and stoppages of Social came from Besancon and the sur­ tions being put forward those in rounding area and the police authority are worried because, Security services have taken before the workers were evicted, place, but the Communist-led Continued on Page 7 ... Morning Cloud as he spins a 3 N halibut or splices a marline- spike or whatever they do on Christmas present yachts. For what it means little com­ rade is that the transport wor­ kers have gained nothing and A HUNDRED TIMES or more in the throat and the other in our pocket, and there is but one London Transport has won a mag­ course of the year an industrial nificent recruiting press. No­ dispute will make the front page answer and that is to spit in thing did I say little comrade. of the national press if for no their face and to take as much other reason than the implied as we can force them to sur­ Nay, we have finally had Clause stupidity of the striking wor­ render. This is an hour of 17 removed from our throats and kers. A window would not open, 'full employment' when labour Clause 17 stated that if one in­ canteen pies were lukewarm or is finding its true values and dulged in a one-day strike then the charge hand swore at a wor­ the job of bank clerk and super­ one was only paid the actual ker and the national press market manager is no longer the hours worked in that week. In states that because of trivial ultimate reward for years of the long age past there were incidents such as I have dreamed study but merely another job to six-hour duties such as night up thousands of workers walk out be pasted up in a window, fcr in work, and for a one-day strike onto the stones. Yet those tri­ the frantic search for labour one was only paid six hours for vial incidents are always the that artificial working class each of the days worked in that culmination of a whole pattern hierarchy has gone for a burton week, and on a twelve-hour of managerial bullying. and one can now call the fore­ daily duty a one-day strike man 'mate' and walk our of one could cost a worker as much as As the pattern of our society 'secure' job into another 'se­ 20 hours' pay plus the loss of changes fresh generations move cure'f job for the slaves have the one day's strike money. into an industrial world of full learned to rattle their chains, But over the years the schedules employment and by the very nat­ but remember little comrade department have forced almost ure of things they can have they are still chains. all duties to and over the full little understanding of the day's working so Clause 17 is meaning and feeling of the wor­ The overpaid Executive of now a broken weapon in the king class between the wars London Transport have, by common, hands of the London Transport when with two million or more concensus, made a glorious fuck- Executive - so out of all the unemployed, men and women were up of London's public transport shouting and the flag waving of robbed of all human dignity by and the situation is so bad that a new deal for the London bus the employer and the State as they are frightened men. Whole workers, and note Women's Lib I the price for allowing the wor­ bus routes are without buses, say workers, we have gained king class, in all countries, ten-minute services have two- nothing. to survive on artifical poverty. hour gaps and frustrated travel­ To have to see a skilled man lers are daily walking into Over the long years one be­ forced to stand outside a garages to scream their abuse at comes a little tired of spelling foundry gate for a whole week the official staff. After years out the answers on how to run a before being employed, to see of official indifference bus public transport system and hov grown men in a crowded factory services are now being taken to retain staff.