NATIONAL | Socialist Action 1983

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Sundar Socialist Action 1 July 1983 I September in London IT IS the morning of 29 June 1973 in Chile. The economic crisis is getting deeper. Inflation is rampant. Queues get longer and longer. acts have been on the increase for some months. month old violent strike by the copper miners for better wages government whole scene.

ment Popular Unity parties, in particular-the Communist Party, have been talking for some months threat of civil war that must be stopped 'by not creating problems for the government by being calm, more signatures against civil war'!

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against the dominates the Gunfire The leaders of the governtre of town, about the Allende producing by collecting come to To be sure, a revolutionary process cannot be expected to unfold smoothly. Yet when that morning tanks from the Second Armoured surrounded the Presidential palace and started indiscriminate shooting in an attempted coup against the Popular Unity Government of Salvador Allende, the country's atmosphere became The cracking of gunfire could be heard throughout the entire cenwhile the civilian population fled the area. 23 people were murdered and several more wounded by the nervous rebels. At first there is panic. Is this the army in coup we have been expecting?

was at his private residence of Tomas Moro. Some minutes later we would hear him on the radio say to the people: 'Come, defend your government with everything you can get hold of ... I call on the people to take ove the factories... to be alert... if the time comes, the people will have alls..

There was no sign of support from either the navy, the air force or the rest of the army for the attempted coup. The Christian Democrats through their spokesperson Claudio Huepe in the Chamber of Deputies broadcast a call for support to the constitutional government' and urged his party's followers 'Stay in your homes'. After a few hours, radio reports told us that the attempted coup was being put down.

General Prats, the commander Chief of the Armed Forces holding a sub-machine gun in his hand, accompanied by the Defence Minister Jose Toha - and backed by some army units demands and obtains the unconditional sull render of the rebels.