IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Thatcher arms Chile torturers

Socialist Challenge No. 163, 11 September 1980 · pp. 1-2 of the scan · 305 words

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MARGARET Thatcher never been fussy about the friends she keeps. On 16 July, Claire Wilson, a British student at the Catholic University of Santiago, met some of them. They were torturing her friend José Benado.

Six days after Clair met Pinochet's thugs, the Thatcher restored diplomatic relations with the Chear junta. They presently negotiating the sale of arms and military supplies Cecil Parkinson from Britain's Trade Department recently led a delegation arms manufacturers to meet the generals. has The last Labour government cut off all supplies to Chile, and withdrew diplomatic links, when it was revealed that Sheila Cassidy, a British doctor, had been extenLOTLUTCO detention in 1975. haven't changed much.

Claire told Amnesty International what happened: In a basement we were tole una we would be shot....Six of them are were beating up José; they applied electricity body; he had burns and several as sos were brokena This is the same fate that thousands of socialists trade unionists have suffered at the hands of these thugs.

The Tory all Chile is Nicholas Ridley.

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Things Thatcher and Ridley unlikely bloody friends without a fight. Trade union action is needed to enforce an arms boycott.

Rolls Royce engineers and Yarrow shipbuilders on the Clyde all over refused gåods to Chile. ! The and ference should commit the next Labour government to break all links with Chile.

Minister responsibility for dealings with Earlier this year he tried to that, perhaps Shiela Cassidy hadn't been tortured at are abandon their This isn't something new.

deliver military Labour Party conSeventh anniversary of coup End Repression in Chile Vigil at Chilean Embassy 12 Devonshire St., London W1 Rally in Friends House, Euston Road, 8pm.

Speakers from Chile Democratico, labour movement, and music from Pueblo

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