independent organization of the workers. More than ever, any opportunist policy toward the trade-union bureaucracy, any policy that places confidence in the bureaucracy's so-called plans of struggle, in its "proposals for getting out of the crisis" put forward in the . trade-union structures it controls, is a brake on the mobilizations of the workers and on their development of consciousness. In our last issue (No.33, September 11) we announced that five militants of the Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores (PST - Socialist Workers party) in Argentina had been murdered. Since then, we have learned that three more militants of this organization have been killed by foscist gangs. Our comrades of the PST are thus added to the long list of victims of political assassinations in Argenfina, nearly 300 since the beginning of the year. Acting under the cover of the Peronist government, the fascist gangs are striking with impunity at the workers movement and its militant vanguard. The murdered comrades had been engaged in supporting the struggles at the Propulsora steel factory in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, During the funeral for the victims a delegate from this factory explained: "In face of the events of La Balandra (where the murThe PST's weekly newspaper, Avanzada Socialista, published biographical sketches of the murdered comrades. Below are excerpts. ROBERTO LOSCERTALES Thirty-one years old, Roberto Loscertales, known as "Laucha, " was a member of the PST leadership in La Plata. He joined our organization in 1967 when he was a student; he founded our university groups in Lo Plato. In 1972 he left the university to join the groups of comrades who were travelling around the country to win legalization of the party. Later he worked at Astillera Rio Santiago, where he was a leading militant of the Marron list until being fired for having helped organize solidarity with the Propulsora struggles. Since then he had been active in struggles at Propulsora, Astillero, the meat trust, and South American Petrochemicals.
More than ever, (and the possibilities are much greater than they were only a few months ago), Argentine revolutionary Marxists must press for the constitution of independent bodies to direct the struggle, as was done during the mobilization of June-July: coordinating bodies, interfactory mobilization committees, local and regional coordinating bodies.
September 16, 1975 SOLIDARITY WITH THE PST ders took place-INPRECOR), we have the moral duty to repudiate them. The mercenary bands that have made victims of these eight comrades won't stop here."
He called on the workers to respond to the attacks. In face of the intensification of violence against the workers movement on the part of fascist gangs in the service of the exploiters, it is becoming ever more clear to the Argentine workers that self-defense has to be organized on all levels, in the factories and in the neighborhoods. SOLIDARITY WITH THE PST AND THE ARGENTINE WORKERS! AGAINST FASCIST VIOLENCE, WORKERS SELFDEFENSE! HUGO FRIGERIO He was 30 years old and leaves a one-and-a-half-yearold son. This comrode joined the PST in 1973 when the big demonstrations of state employees were going on; he was a leader of those demonstrations. He entered the Internal Commission (rank-and-file workers organizations) of the Ministry of Public Works in La Plato and quickly became a member of the leadership commission of the Association of Public Works Personnel. In 1973 he was a candidate of our party in the municipal elections. He was also a member of the Partisan Front of the State Employees in La Plato. He had escaped two assassination attempts in the past. LIDIA AGOSTINI In 1975, having finished her studies, she joined our organization as one of the first militants of the Front of Liberal Professions. At the age of 27 she was work-