government of 9 August marks the cod of three years of government by a coalition of parties of the working class, and a major advance for the counter-revolution.
The army has participated in the government once before, after the iorry-owners" boycott of October 1972, But this time their inclusion comes atter months in which open civil war has threarened to engulf the country, with a fascist invisian pint, rebellions by sections of the army, attempts to distribate arms to the workers; and the Christian Democrats" successful intervenlion in the copper miners strike, and massive delensive mobursations or the wursing CEss Since the abortive military revolt at the end of June, the Christian Democrats, who bold the congressional majority, have been pressing for the inclusion of the military on the conditions to which Allende has now agreed, These include the removal of 'left ministers from key For only the second time since the Colonels' posts: the enforcement of the constitution — that is, aguinse the armed left-wing groups and the fixing of limits to the nationalised sectors of the economy, with gilarantees to private HE HILTER Allende and his allies in the Communist Party have sacrificed all the recent pains of the working class — including the wave of factory occupations in response to the attempted coup in June - to collaboration with the military. The Popular Unity leaders have unised respect for law and order and avoided any mobilisation of the workers. Troops have been sent into the occupied faclocies under the law passed last year by the Christian Democrats, authorisang the army to invade homes and wark-places on the pretext of searching for arms. The revolutionaries who attempted to carty our a naval mutiny against reactionary officers connected with the fascist 'Patria y Libertad movement, now face a court-martial after the discovery of their plans on 7 August. Allende threatened on Monday to suppress the extreme left by force.
Threatened by the reactionary transport strike"
the Popular Unity leaders have again given the streets over, not to the working class, but to the army. They have therefore been forced to retreat on their positions of a month earlier, and accept the conditions of the opposition for the inclusion of the military-