history of their organisation.
amids a crisb, an accclerated deterioraTION OI TOE TIMME NHOENECS CHUIE working class, the bankrupicy of the nopalst policics. COTEM and the incapacicy of the traditonal lelt to generate a clear allernative for power, The MIR sought to form the nucleus of a revolutionary altermative for Chile, Ir was influenced by the bew developments of the socialist camp, the intensifi erian of deolozical cirtipple In the international socialise movement and the example of the vioTOCOES CENT KEVO UEUT Inspired by the advance of the strugele in other TESWULIUUAE continents, the MIR soughs crea lively to reintroduce a revol which has been SUUE TUEA progressively TOFOICDSATOUEO urcaucratic and retormisl prec Invalved al ibe beginning in internnl rasks organisation and claboration of lts political line, the mik was soon lorccu 10 go into clandestinity because of eneasures adopted COOTLHYL by STUTe S OseTICd in 1968/69. Frem clandestinity it STATEDA to lake ib firs lowands inseriion in the mass movement, simultaneously initlaLEe an intensIVe and prodUcIVE idealogical strugale ocher sectors of the Chilean left LI Was CUriDe the pre-revolutionary period of the Popula: Unity, after regaining its legality. that the MER comolidated position, which already was subthe Chuilean workautside IAR. CHIL Popular Unity the MIR sought co strengthen und develop Popular Power as nc alternacive to the weakness of the RUJOTOUSL TUIS It ponsrantly argued the Decessity of an offensive agaiosr those WAD UU BIEEC SUuR SI On 15 August 1977 the MIR (Movement of the Kevolutionary Left) of Chile celebrated its 12th anniversary. Some members of the MIR in Britain explain the denounced those who blindly out of this situation was to place confidenoe in the poople and not confusing come was to have united the left and the people, strengthen their Since II Seplember 1973, the Chilean workina class and neonle have herolcally resisted Pinochet's military dictaborship; hundreds and thoisands have beet massacred, tortured and imprisoned. Despite the savage defeat, doside of srusele hawe lauoh the workers of Chile the capacity for prolonged resistance CETTE TES ELI sary under the posed by the counter revolution the MIR renews commilment to support and organise the popular Dusng lorwarO ING EUsIsLAne and calling for the unity of all the DO BUIE farces in the Poltical Front of the Resistance.
Only in chis way Chileun favourable spe CTCL!
achieverent of tbeir final objec the = n ire ind socalist Chile On the lourth anniversary of the the military coup. ПЛО СПОСТ ПОВРЕ ГО TOIC TRE have riven thei lives crugaie ngainst the dictatorshig LD COTSC WOS Si U EOe KdOEE centres, consentracion camps and to the disappeared prisoners.
which have seen the intensitication of serugale, cuiminating in coday's conditions imposed counter-revalutios, of the Wik has heen are of permanent maturation, and untiring commitment to the cause of the Chilean people and the Continental Revolution.
Juan-les Pins fraci a casino Cannes at Aam when her Rolb Royce was forced off the road and attacked by thiree OWI AARCE WORE IE TC Car was killed and Aslrars gigolo, VIENECE and hetraying •MUL EL SMIYET conditions immovement.
anti-dictatorial CaD the DHOCU conditions for the we remember Rio the molcical tife continual class trowth
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