grants and British-born alike _ whose work is the real basis of this country's prosperity. What is worth detending ana social rachities!
1969. if not people's right to decent education That is why we think the defence of this one course is important, not just for us and the students who may come after us, but as part of the defence against all cuts everywhere in education and social 254 8040. expenditure. Foreign students are among College. are given heavy jail sentences under the junta's new laws for possessing weapons for self-defence.
If repression has not reached the scale of 1955 (when Peron was first driven from power) or the Chile of 1973, this is only because of the level of organisation, experience and militancy which the workers movement has developed since the famous semi-insurrection in Cordoba in A key issue now is the economic policy that will be followed by the junta. This is bound to dissolve middle class support (and a certain working class passivity) as the illusion disappears that the military can restore order, clean up corruption.
LETTERS opposed now. The loss of one course in one college is the thin end of the wedge We ask the ILEA to reverse its decision, and we ask tor vour support For further information, messages of support, leaflets/petitions, please contact the Student Union Representative, Hackney College, Dove Road Annexe, Islington, London N1, or phone 01OVERSEAS STUDENTS at Hackney and bring economic prosperity There is no chance of an economic miracle' on the Brazilian model, precisely because the workers movement Is strong enough to resist sucn attack on its living standards.
The new economy minister, Martinez de Hoz, has already indicated that he will pursue a policy of 'austerity" - similar to that of the Peronist minister, Mondelli, which led to a massive wave of strikes up and down the country last July. The deepening economic recession and the incredible 600 per cent yearly inflation rate point to an inevitable confrontation with the working class and the popular masses as a whole.
Just to take one example - the last wage increase conceded by the Peronist Government was 20 per cent. That was more than swallowed up, however, by a rise in the cost of living of 54 per cent between February and March.
General Videla has proclaimed that the junta will stay in power for three years in order to 'eradicate subversion and promote economic development'. But the workers movement will fight desperately to prevent another defeat like Chile, and to drive the military and capitalism with it from power.
The vulnerability of the junta was symbolised with the execution of Pavon, a top police chief, by resistance forces on the very day that Videla was sworn in. Videla cannot be allowed to bleed the Argentine working class as he plans.
In Britain that means launching a campaign against the regime which can draw on the momentum gained by the movements on Chile and Brazil to demand that the Labour Government break all links with these military oppressors. To this end, Red Weekly urges trade union branches, Labour Party wards and all other working class organisations to affiliate to the Argentina Support Movement (further information from 1 Cambridge Terrace, London N.W.1.).
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