pound. Hundreds of millions of pounds of Hong Kong's money has been lost to the colony in this way.
Who is standing up for the increasingly exploited sections of the population? The pro-Peking trade unions have carefully been keeping a rather low and dignified profile since the 1967-8 disturbances that rocked the colony. And in accord with the general foreign policy of the People's Republic, the leftist press in Hong Kong has since 1971 considerably toned down its criticism of the colonial authorities. The newspapers have advised their pro-Chinese readers to "cool it during the present hard times. Committee to mark this event.
The elaboration of a political line capable of effectively advancing the revolutionary struggle means that it is necessary from time to time to go through an intensive process of democratic discussion, assuring the possibility of an exchange of experi ences accumulated in the course of day-to-day intervention. Only in this way can the political line be clarified, filling out those aspects of it that are not very developed, and changing and correcting those orientations that have been shown in practice to be wrong It was for this reason that the Liga Comunista de Chile organised its second national congress only a year after holding its first congress. The dangers were great. Nevertheless, the results are extremely positive, and the Liga Comunista emerges from its second congress in a stronger position to confront the difficult task of the resistance.
Among the points which were noted at the congress were a growth of the organisation to incorporate a number of militants from the traditional parties of the working class (CP, SP); the active participation of our militants in certain embryonic forms of working class reorganisation; and the regular appearance each month from June 1974 of our paper, Popular and Working The congress of the Liga Comunista was held in a situation of intense social and economic crisis. The failure of the project pursued by the counter revolutionary dictatorship in the interests of national and international big business is evident. The Liga Comunista de Chile, sympathising organisation of the Fourth International, recently held its second conference underground in Chile. Below we reprint sections of the communique published by the LC's Exterior Poncy DECuts organised.
tors, such as the resistance committees base of the bourgeoisie: petty-bourgeois businessmen, indus trialists and farmers who have been driven to bankruptcy by the accelerated process of concentration of capital; together with sectors of the state apparatus affected by the junta's because or unis the dictatorship is naving to rely more anc more on tactics of open repression, which is a confession of it: strategic weakness. The key to resolving this situation is held by the working class and popular movement The first steps forward in reconstructing the workers organ salons Have now been made, wien tesanes cleany to the possibilities of advance by the working class even under the extremely difficult conditions imposed by mass terror. But fundamental changes in the political situation can only be expected once us reorgamsduon develops turner to corpo For the Liga Comunista this means advancing the develop ment and centralisation of the defensive struggles which are already being undertaken by the workers, peasants and students and of the clandestine organisations led by the vanguard secHowever, we do not limit ourselves simply to agitating and working for struggies which are possible today, we are also working to prepare the way for a Revolutionary General Strike. This too will help in the process of centralising forces against the dictatorship, allowing militancy to develop around