vins admirers strike in Chile — OCLACEU standarus in Argentina.
policy. have women's 1977 HAS been a year of rising working class struggle in Lacin America, and, significantly, this has spread right into the heartlands of the continent's military dictators. The dictatorship. end of the year saw a copper miners"
the fiest openly since 1973 and mass strikes in defence of living Wape increases of around 40 per cent made a large dent in the junta's wages general In Brazil there were the largest mobilisations for nearly ten years over the summer, Despite mass arrests there have been repeated student demonstrations, stoking a crisis which has even led to division among the political supporters of the But the most explosive confront ations have again been in the semi-democracies ofrhe northere hall of the continent. In Colombia more Han 50 people were killed as the Government tried to put down a strike MCULEMACT Nevertheless, workers continued to demonstrate against the Cavern ment's pay policy and its attack; on democratic rights. 300 union leaders were jailed in Peru after a nationwide Peneral stoke desist brice resis July, but there too major strikes continued in the copper mines and elsewhere. In December there were lunther strikes against the austerity plan, imposed by the demands of che International Monetary Fund, In both Colombia and Mexico the demands of the mass struggle have prowed a powertul stimulus towards the reunification of the revolutionars organisations have come rogetber to SCLEONA International, each of about 1,000