Successful hunger-strike for Chilean

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leadership, but also with the opportunist wheeler dealing of the so-called Communist Party of India (CPD) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)). In these conditions, defent was not surprising From the very heginning the Congress Party Government had made it clear that there would be Do concessions tu the railworkers. The Indian capitalists face a growing economic crisis which has increasingly forced the Government rhetoric. Even the half-hearted attompt to resolve the food shortage. by requisitioning grain trom the big tarmers and grain merchants has been called off. The black marketeers thrive while the working masses starve.

In this situation the Government is A. hunger strike organised by the Latia American students federation outside the Chilean Embasy in Bonn, West Germany, has succeeded in extracting new information about some of the political prisoners in Chuile.

The hunger strike was called to ment on the state of hecalch of Bautista Van Schouwen, Alessandro Romero, Luis Vitale, and Manuel Cabieses, all prisoners under the junta.

More than 4,000 German citizens, includine sonse Mle, went to show their solidarity with the hunger-strikers. Under this pressure, the Embassy press-atruche was forood to receive the langer-strikers, were alive and would be committed for trial in the near tuture.

This is the furt time that an official that Bautista Van Schouwen, a member amested on 13 Decembrer 1973 and was thought to have died in February after the military hoapital in Santiago, tried and condensed to 30 yeurs in Toll like Van Schouwen his life is in great danger.

agaiost citber of these rwo comrades, for them. This makes it all the mare urgent that the internstional campaien tor meg beleise is sepped up, 1s cas recently been requested by comrades inside Chrile.

prisoners of the political bureau of the MIR who was Romero and Cabieses bave now been under control Luis Vitale, well-known histotian and militant of the Fourth International, has been subjected to brutal lochice and No official charpes have heen cade and no official trial has been announeed

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