Object
The principal objective of the military offensive Was HOUTCE the Palestine Liberation raamsano• ure naraest blow in its history, and in BL755 Cluster bomb on sale at Britain's Army Equipment Exhibition. Equipment. Representatives the halls full of every military hardware.
James Blyth, the new head of the Ministry's Defence Sales Organisation was keen to disclose who had been invited especially Argentina had been on the invitauol cher found herself at war with them!
Apart this obvious em barrassment. there were other reasons why Mr Blyth wished to re main mute. He claims that Hally ¿corcoc lallve. 'especially ask that their wt cocillc be 1U| published' Hardly surprising when we discover that one of the most brutal military dictatorships Chile had. six Generals present. These were: two staff from the Chilean embassy, Squadron Leader Patino and Wing Commander Aparisio; two from the ofover countries were invited to view and buy from sort of imaginable fice oI Ine ,Military Attache in Madrid, Brigadier Jorge Quiroz and Colonel Renato Barela Correa and LWO the Chilean Marine aCor s, inder ich: Rear Admiral Pablo Tideret and Captain Guillermo Representatives the Chilean arms firm SEP International Ltd, Chilean Military Factories ana Dockyards and the Chilean Ministry Defence were also present. Quite a crew!
On 11 September 1973 Allende's Popular Unity government was OVCL thrown Uric of the bloodiest military ever seen.
Since the organised by the USA to Coub dispel the threat that Allende presented American Lur bul aLUlN and asocis in Chile without the resistance in Beirut 6) To unite the military arms by have nothing to do with resistance.
immediate alongside the forces This is the offensive.
Socialist Challenge 2,500 people have gone (plus 40,000 dur une nue actua couv anc countless brutally murdered. Massive repression and torture is everyday life tor the people of Chile Yet Thatcher and her allies are quite content to Weicol cilicd Generals to Britain and sel them British arms What became of That concern about fascism when she went to Wall will Within a few weeks of the ot the acolis fascism' she is willing to sell arms to another dic tatorial state.
Thatcher's hypocriss must be seen for what it is — she has no objection to fascism. The only time the Tunne cass will tight dic .is when their own imperialist ULCISLS threatened Any other time the! will continue to arm juntas like the Chilean and aid in their vicious repression of the workers and peasants.
5) To set in motion local democratically organised councils so they can organise forces and cen tralise them within the framework of a Na.
Guard. and to revent the use o' certain suspect groups which the national 7) To demand of the anti-imperialist states and forces, notably the USSR and Cuba, military intervention Lebanese and Palestinian resistance until the total and unconditional retreat of the Zionist army from the whole of Lebanese territory has been achieved comrades, the only way to derai 9 July 1982 paga 7
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ON 21 JUNE in Aldershot the Ministry of Defence began its annual Exhibition of Military