Taking a leaf out of the Chilean Junta's book, the colonels regime in fronted with the possibilily of any Greece is now using a major Achens mass opposition. stadium to house the bundreds of people arrested over the last week.
At the same time, a number of sources hare confirmed that the denth foll, officially put at eleven. is more like ten times that number, The severity of the repression, and lts blanket nature, Indicates just how Part of the 3,000 streng demonstration which marched to the Greek Embassy on Wednesday vulnerable the junta feels when conThe most scrucing ding about Inst week's upsurge was precisely rapid mass respouse which it evoked Starting as a mere protest over purely student issues, it turned with incre dible speed into a movement drawing in a wide variety of social layers and demanding nothing less thran intediate overthrow of the regime. Nothing could have beco more caletlated to expose the liberalisation farce recently launched by the junta. The extent to which support mush roomed can be gauged from a report published in the Fresch newspaper Le Nigero: On Friduy morning, 200 students from thie University (of Athens), still simply in solidaricy with their comrades of the Poly ments at their heud."
Support also came from high school students, actors, and even peasants from Megara (about 20 miles from Athens) who drove in on their trac tors. In the occupied Polytechnic workers and peasants" representatives met together with delegates from university and high school struggle No sooner had the prison doors of Chile silenced the scream of the tortured, than the streete of Athons echoed to hoarse shouts of defianes, and the harsh stammer al machine gun fire.
Week by week this paper hes been unmatebed for its coverage of the Chilean events. We will provide the same kind of information about Greece, Wa report not just an an det of revolutionury solidarity, but as part of an International which Is involved Ir resistanpe to bath juntas.
But we need your help if we are to carry on this work, and expand our coverage Our E300 fund drive target for Navamber now stands at E207.70, Tha manns that wa have only had shout £45 in the last week, We need a biuger effort to meet the targe in November. Don't let us down, send a donation right away to: Fed Weekly Fund Drive: 182 Pantonuille Road, London N.T. al solidarity will bave an inportant role to piay in determining the overail balance of forces. Wednesday's demonstration must be only the prelude to further activity around a sit uation which the British left has been reprettably slow to act upon in the past.
John Marston