LEFTISTS DEBATE’ ‘HOW. 10 DEFEND VIETNAMESE
By José Valdés
Santiago de Chile
Recent actions carried. out in Chile’ in support. of the Vietnamese guerrillas have.served to test the policies of the Chilean leftist parties. While the Communist party has slowed down the. struggles, the revolutionary Marxist militants have engaged. in. fighting demonstrations in the street in support of the Vietnamese guerrillas.
_The paralyzing policies of the CP blocked massive demonstra-~ tions during the International Days of Protest. against the war in | Vietnam. No general mass rally was held August 6-9 due.to the . sabotage. of a united front by the CP; and the various. jeft.. parties conducted separate activities. cop gn
-The Communist party.limited itself to a passive campaign appealing. for blood donations to be sent to Vietnan,. which ended... in a scandal. Some rank-and-file Communist cells painted slogans
on walls demanding the withdrawal of the Yankee’ troops fron Vietnan.
In-a working-class : area (Aninal' Pinto) ,' left-wing militants. of the Socialist party organized an interesting exposition. Workers,’ students and school teachers, with only their own resources, worked up twenty panels depicting Vietnam in all its aspects, not only the imperialist massacres but the revolutionary way in which the Vietnam~ — ese masses are struggling against the aggressor and their: own oa national bourgeoisie. Throughout the exposition, they compared Vietnam and Chile in their relationship to imperialism.
-The Revolutionary Left Movement [MIR -- Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria] held several meetings in Santiago and Pay Concepcidn in support of the guerrillas of the Vietnamese National ..- Liberation Front. In Concepcién, the University Brigade of the MIR organized an exposition and a mass meeting in which the speakers backed the guerrillas in their Struggle for victory. ,