However radical that may sound the fact of the matter was that in all te decisive events In the nuean class struggle the Socialist Party ended up aligning itself with the right wing Popular Unity. rhetoric of the Socialist Party leaders had three effects on the proletarian vanguard.
It misled them into believing that if they put enough pressure on lne Government it would lead to them implementing the right policies. tied the une strategy of Popular Unity. Secondly by giving its verbal support to the most politically advanced actions of the workers but at the refusing to centralise and generalise these actions on a national scale it became an objectivé obstacle to the development of working class power, via a workers' and peasants' governHelle As most of the leaders on the ground these struggles members of the Socialst sympathisers of the party the Socialist Party appeared to be leading the most advanced struggles and this enhanced its prestige enormously.
currents inside the Socialist Party stay within the party and prevented them from taking on the urgent task of creating an alternative revolutionary In March 1973 background of worsening economic always The 'he irony of this miners union which This legalistic bourgeoisie counter-revolutionary same time Coup were Party or Thus thanks to the policy Popular Unity, This had the were revolutionary On 29 June Regiment the against It denied the right of the miners to strike by insisting that in nationalised enterprises there was no contradiction