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MEXICO ASSAULT ON LABOR MEXICO CITY - 12,000 police, armed with high-powered rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers, occupied the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the early dawn of...
...To explore the possibilities the West German government held a lowprofile meeting in Costa Rica with representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Venezuela...
...The future of the country will be mortgaged, since most of the German financing will come in the form of loans which must be repaid...
...It's a slow, painstaking, patient campaign designed to wear down the system rather than to topple it in a single master stroke...
...The second rule is, "Don't overreact...
...How is your work organized...
...Here are a few suggestions: Don't take them on in their own territory...
...This is twothirds of Mexico's total investment program for that period...
...I guess this sounds like another standard public relations bromide, but we're not going to win the public's support and confidence simply by "responding" to criticism...
...What's 30 next...
...Before the triumph, that was not life...
...By James Goff, an editor of Latinamerica Press (Lima, Peru), from whose April 14, 1977, edition this article is reprinted...
...exports will double from 105,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 1976 to 200,000 bpd in 1977...
...A white immigration of the size being planned by the government will significantly alter Bolivia's racial composition...
...At 2 or 3 in the morning when La Bodeguita closed, those of us left inside would begin to sing the "International" and our own songs of struggle...
...But it can also move you to become a revolutionary...
...Why do you think it is so popular...
...And I would tell them, well, the other kind is political too...
...Confirming the news of Mexico's huge oil discoveries - first leaked to the press in October of 1974 and later documented by a special CIA study - then President Luis Echeverria insisted that the oil would be exploited "in a 26 MEXICO PETROPOLIT I CSDATELINE * DATELINE "profoundly nationalist and anti- imperialist manner...
...When I sing I want everyone to understand me...
...PUEBLA: We are seeing changes in every area of life, how everything is continuously transformed...
...So, the tactical retreat in order to return to the offensive, organized and conscious...
...Bolivia Libre claims that the future immigrants are to be settled in San Borja and Secure (Beni Department) and in the Abapo-Isozog Reservation (Santa Cruz), all three being primr agricultural zones...
...Strauss justified the plan on the grounds that immigrants would "colonize extensive underpopulated areas of the Beni and other Departments" and help Bolivia "reach self-sufficiency in basic agricultural production with supplies sufficient for export as well...
...This is absolutely false...
...What recollections do you have of the period when Fidel and the companeros of the July 26th Movement were fighting in the mountains, supported by the movement in the cities and provinces...
...There is art which serves the needs of people, and art which goes against their interests...
...And the first rule of our business is "Do your homework...
...It is also a clear indication that Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo intends to keep his promises to international capital to keep labor under control...
...PUEBLA: I always tell people that my success around the world is because people everywhere are in love with the Cuban revolution...
...anti-corporate movement...
...According to the Wall Street Journal, Mexican officials are offering up the oil as "collateral" for loans, based on estimates of the reserves that range from 11 to 100 billion barrels...
...Consequently, the government has moved fiercely against the growing independent trade union movement, using police and army troops to break numerous strikes, most important of which have been the national strike of electrical workers in July 1976, and now the STUNAM strike...
...Screen your press releases, speeches, house organs, and annual reports for provocative material - anything that can be used against you...
...Unionization of the nation's universities' employees has proceeded quickly over the past several years, with strong influence from the Mexican Communist Party (PCM) and other left forces...
...that was the day of our birth...
...The strike followed three months of unsuccessful attempts to force the university to the negotiating table...
...The first public acknowledgment of the immigration occurred in January this year when the Bolivian UnderSecretary for Migration, Dr...
...By granting good lands such as those of San Borja, Secure and Abapo-Izozog to the new colonists, the Government will be handing over all the facilities and advantages of a large infrastructure investment of the Bolivian people - in the order of $10 to $15 million - thus denying to the Bolivian campesino the benefits of public works which have been made possible by the sacrifice of the working class, the campesinos and the Bolivian people in general...
...It can rob your time, distract and confuse you like it often does in the capitalist countries...
...PUEBLA: Well, chico, during those years we listened every night as the bombs went off all over Havana, all over Cuba because it wasn't just Havana...
...You see, here in Cuba we are changing the concept of what an artist is...
...The first: "Anyone who disagrees with our views of the free enterprise system is an economic illiterate who simply needs to be educated through a meaningful dialog...
...Once you blow your cool, you've blown it all...
...Take the offensive...
...Work must cease to be a means of 'making a living' and become a part of one's living [sounds pretty good so far -- but to continue] and the irrationality of production for profit must be replaced by rational production of goods and services to meet people's needs...
...I use the rhythms of my country - the bolero, the guaracha, the son, everything that is Cuban music...
...MEXICO ASSAULT ON LABOR MEXICO CITY - 12,000 police, armed with high-powered rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers, occupied the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the early dawn of July 7, arresting more than 530 striking workers and professors...
...PUEBLA: I am an active member of the National Union of Art and Presentations one of the twenty-three national unions that form the Cuban Workers Confederation (CTC...
...It was like being reborn...
...Although Mexico has OPEC prices and expects to earn around $20 billion in foreign exchange from its oil exports over the next six years...
...29 The Radicals Are Coming A public forum on Del Monte will be held in San Francisco September 24...
...This should be obvious to anyone in our business...
...These concerns used to be part of official government rhetoric...
...capital like the International Monetary Fund to keep wages down and the workers' movement in line...
...If my comments seem to acquire a slightly purplish cast from time to time, you'll have to blame it on the radicals - I'm essentially borrowing their words...
...But 1976 brought severe economic difficulties - a high trade deficit, inflation, huge foreign debt payments - and finally, in August, the devaluation of the long-stable peso...
...By comparison, Saudi Arabia's reserves are estimated at around 170 billion barrels and Iran's at 64 billion...
...12, 1977, issue of its bulletin Bolivia Libre, claims that negotiations began in April 1975 when the Minister of Planning and Coordinatidn, General Juan Lechin Suarez, held conversations with the Inter-Governmental Committee for European Migration (CIME) and the Inter-American Development Bank looking toward white immigration to Bolivia from southern Africa...
...1976, $1.25...
...Herbert Castillo, of the PMT (Mexican Worker's Party), and other left leaders charge that this is open collaboration with international capital and a short-sighted bartering of a crucial national resource for dubious short-term advantages...
...For information call (415) 397-0833...
...Yet, here I am, a veteran of three years of intermittent clashes with various radical organizations and I'll frankly admit I didn't know the first thing about the background and aims of the radical movement until I began researching this article...
...oil executives and government energy planners are openly pleased with the prospect of importing more oil from Mexico and less from the Middle East, because, as an EXXON vice-president for international operations recently told a Senate Committee, "the U.S...
...In order to escalate their attack, they must depend on you to bluster, to make arrogant gestures that turn the public against you, or, worst of all, to engage in personal retaliation (Segretti versus Ellsberg...
...Nor that their children had no schools, nor doctors nor anything...
...ON REVOLUTIONARY MUSIC Politics, art and revolution come together in Cuba's popular culture...
...Only Bolivia accepted the proposition as presented...
...I don't care how good you are, they'll murder you...
...PUEBLA RECORD The only Carlos Puebla record available in the United States has recently been released by Paredon Records, Cuba: Songs for Our America, available for $5.00 plus 50 cents postage from PO...
...This amount will cut the trade deficit and reduce the foreign debt, but at the cost of an even greater dependence upon U.S...
...What was it like to be a musician in the old C('uba before the Revolution, and what kind of songs did you sing them ? PUEBLA: I always sang protest music...
...U.S...
...When Fidel speaks no one has to ask, "Hey, what did Fidel mean by that...
...THEBLACKSCHOLAR THE BLACK SCHOLAR P.O...
...Most people say it began with the Civil Rights movement of the early 1960s...
...The immediate and natural response of any company facing its first radical confrontation is, "Maybe if we ignore them they'll go away...
...By 1982, Pemex expects to be exporting 1 million bpd out of the 2 million produced...
...Your music is known today all over the world as the voice of the Cuban revolution...
...The project is "a new evidence of the pro-imperialist servility" of the regime headed by General Hugo Banzer which, at the cost of Bolivian national interests, is helping European governments "solve the problems arising from the liberation of the African peoples...
...and European banks...
...The addition of 150,000 whites of German and Dutch extraction will mean a 17 percent increase in the European sector of the population...
...For more background in the export of apartheid see: "Documents on Colonialist Export from South Africa to Latin America," a 61-page dossier compiled by the Group for Dependency Research and the Southern Africa Research Group, and published by the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Box 278, 751 05 Uppsala, Sweden...
...Following a bomb threat, nearly 100 uniformed police forced their way in and carried off over 70 file drawers full of documents, as well as valuable office equipment - none of which have been returned...
...And then let's tell them why we need more profits - to do a better job and to build an even better standard of living for all Americans...
...While most of the prisoners were released in the days following the occupation, a member of the striking union called the event a "profound defeat" and "a clear indication of what the government's action will be vis-a-vis the working class...
...General Motors versus Nader...
...demand and geographical proximity...
...So they are anxious to hear how we are doing, how we triumph and fail, of our fights with Imperialism, all these things...
...We should not destine our reserves for the progress of other countries, sacrificing the progress of Mexico...
...In recent months, however, the Mexican government has been under strong pressure from the local bourgeoisie and from representatives of U.S...
...Most of this oil will go to the United States (Israel is the only other market of any significance...
...And my work tool is my guitar...
...While a Foreign Office spokesman claims the immigration is aimed at increasing agricultural output, a leftist nationalist group labels the project an "importation of apartheid" and calls on Bolivia's overwhelming majority of Indians and mestizos to oppose it...
...During that visit Lopez Portillo declared his intention to "help out" the U.S...
...ENTREGUISMO" Critics of Lopez Portillo's oil policies accuse him of "entreguismo...
...The corollary to this rule, obviously, is, "Don't UNDER-react...
...Box 889, Brooklyn, NY 11202...
...That was misery...
...DEL MO NTI4E THE RADICALS ARE COMING Business circles are becoming increasingly alarmed over the growth of the U.S...
...By the end of 1976, according to Bolivia Libre, the growing armed struggle in Rhodesia and Namibia and the hardening sentiment of blacks in South Africa made European governments look seriously at the problem of absorbing white colonists whose departure from southern Africa was a growing possibility...
...These investments were originally destined to favor internal resettlement of thousands of campesinos who were to have been brought from the poorest and most populated areas of Bolivia's valleys and altiplano...
...To develop the oil reserves, and to meet other current obligations, for example, Mexico needs large amounts of capital - which the government is now seeking from private U.S...
...has already begun to tap that source, as Mexico increases production and channels ever larger flows of crude and refined oil and natural gas to the United States...
...His strategy is to gradually build a broad constituency of dissidents and malcontents and unify them into a formidable political and economic force...
...Their explicit purpose is to destroy the "system" and build a better one...
...The following interview 'a o -k 0 'a with Carlos Puebla was conducted earlier this year in Havana by Peter Baird...
...Dealing with the typical range of radical confrontation tactics is very much the business of the public relations professional...
...The U.S...
...But the new radical ideologist wouldn't do anything as crass as holding up the Sheriff of Nottingham with a bow and arrow...
...For information on the demonstration scheduled for the company's annual meeting in San Francisco September 27, call 835-2511.DATE LINE DATELINE DEL MONTE DOCUMENT There are two fallacious beliefs widely held by public relations professionals...
...The resettlement project will mean a windfall to intermediaries and middlemen through large "commissions...
...There were songs against the [Batista] tyranny, against the whole system...
...Their demands were recognition of their leftist union, a single contract for all administrative, maintenance and academic personnel, the reinstallation of workers fired for strike activities, and a wage hike of 20 percent...
...For example, at a time when the food industry is under constant attack for "obscene profits...
...But I sang about what others didn't dare to, about the true life of our campesinos...
...medical interns at ANAMERE - removed from coverage by the labor laws, etc...
...border, financed by a consortium of 6 UI.S...
...They didn't say that the campesinos lived on land that didn't belong to them...
...The "logic" of the new administration's oil policy is a far cry from the nationalistic rhetoric of the previous president, and a worrisome indication of what is to come for Mexico's working poor and unemployed...
...This was particularly evident in the recent STUNAM strike in which all attacks were directed at the University rector rather than at the government's complicity...
...It was the same thing, but we did it anyway...
...Above all, avoid a confrontation in front of a hostile crowd when the television crews are on hand...
...The Bonn representatives proposed a settlement of 30,000 white families (some 150,000 people) from the three African countries and offered a credit through CIME of $150 million to finance the operation...
...Twenty years before the Revolution he was singing "subversive music" and today he continues to document the advances of the Revolution in his singing and compositions...
...Let's say you decide you simply can't ignore the challenge...
...When people ask me how old I am, I tell them, 'the same age as the Revolution.' Because, I don't know, I think you should only count the good part of life...
...could break the back of OPEC" by tapping new oil sources like Mexico's...
...Use your "third-party experts...
...He uses this propaganda weapon to spread dissension, to probe and attack the weaknesses of the system, and to proselytize...
...In order to deliver all these goodies, we need a little spare cash...
...I say that we are cultural workers, or art workers...
...Robin Hood rides again...
...Guido Strauss, casually mentioned that the National Immigration Council and the National Institute of Colonization "would promote the immigration of large and important contingents of white colonists of German and Dutch extraction from Namibia, Rhodesia and South Africa...
...in its energy crisis, and last month in Mexico City told reporters that the U.S...
...CENCOS gathered documentation on Mexican social issues and served as a media outlet for popular struggles by issuing news bulletins and organizing press conferences...
...Approximately 15 percent of the country's 5,900,000 inhabitants (i.e., 885,000 people) are of European origin and largely control the country's government and economy...
...The STUNAM, along with the militant Democratic Tendency of the Electrical Workers Union, has become a key force in organizing a mass movement for union democracy, wage increases and general political reforms over the past years...
...Excerpted below are portions of his article, "The Radicals Are Coming, Are You Ready...
...In San Francisco, where Del Monte is based, a number of church, community, worker, research, and solidarity organizations have formed the Del Monte Working Group to challenge the company and to analyze the role agribusiness plays in world food production...
...Uruguay and Argentina rejected the proposal at the time in view of the critical political situations through which they were passing...
...After the occupation of the University and the jailing of the union leaders, University officials approached the union with an offer: recognition of the STUNAM as the sole bargaining agent for both academic and administrative personnel but separately negotiated agreements with different legal statutes governing the academic and administrative employees...
...is finally getting its hands on Mexico's coveted oil reserves, as the result of mounting economic and diplomatic pressures on that country...
...Our job is simply this: to prove the system works...
...Box 908 Sausalito, CA 94965 BIOLIVIA TRANSPLANTING APARTHEID If present government plans carry through, Bolivia will soon start receiving the first of some 30,000 white families fleeing the prospect of black majority rule in southern Africa...
...Art has a function, good or bad, but it has one...
...Some months later General Lechin met with CIME officials in Geneva and agreed to receive a limited number of Portuguese colonists who were fleeing Angola...
...Wherever you went you heard the bombs explod27DATELINE * DATELINE ing, you saw people painting revolutionary slogans on the walls, attempting attacks on the secret police of the regime, and gathering money, medicine, clothing, food and whatever could be found to send to the Sierra...
...It is not a hoe or hammer, but it is a tool of the Revolution...
...Now one can create, create without economic worries...
...I've always sung in Cuban...
...University officials refused to consider negotiation of a single contract, hoping to keep the administrative and maintenance workers divided from professors and researchers...
...He also claimed the country would "benefit from the technological knowhow, experience and capital which the immigrants will bring with them...
...the League of Welders - two strikes broken by the army in Chiapas...
...By the NACLA-West Mexico Project The U.S...
...Focusing originally on institutionalized injustices toward black people, it branched out into a wide range of protests, picking up converts and gathering momentum through the anti-war demonstrations of the mid1960s, and eventually blooming in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a full-fledged revolutionary movement dedicated to the overthrow of capitalist imperialism...
...The raid took place at the time CENCOS had scheduled a press conference for STUNAM strike leaders...
...Life began for the Cuban people on the Ist of January, 1959...
...West Germany, and to a lesser degree, Holland and Great Britain, in an effort to avoid the social and economic problems which the reintegration of the colonists to their countries would produce, turned toward Latin America...
...That's what the radicals want you to do...
...Critics also point out that Pemex plans to borrow between $8 and $9 billion in the next 6 years to develop the newly found reserves in the Tabasco-Chiapas region...
...The Government has already made a considerable infrastructure investment in the selected areas for highways, irrigation facilities and other services...
...When you read Marti you don't have to be looking in a dictionary to figure out what he is saying...
...For example, I was singing for 10 years in a little Havana restaurant called la Bodeguita del Medio...
...Since a true artist in the capitalist countries has to suffer hunger for his art, some people think it should always be this way...
...One company I know organized a "truth squad" of eminent scientists to travel around the country, appearing on talk shows and seminars opposite an author publicizing a book critical of the company's products...
...is the "logical client" for Mexico's oil, given U.S...
...Third-party endorsement" is an old public relations technique, and it works...
...The Mexican government has made the controversial decision to promote massive oil and gas exports as a way out of the country's current economic difficulties, and especially to offset continuing trade and budget deficits and help meet payments on the $28 billion foreign debt...
...gas producers and distributors, who have signed a "letter of intent" with the Mexican government in exchange for purchase rights to the gas...
...The most important lesson of the strike is the clear warning: there cannot be one policy of economic austerity and another policy of reform vis a o 'C 0 25DATELINE * DATELINE vis the exploited classes...
...By Elizabeth Farnsworth, an editorial staff member of INTERNEWS, with the cooperation of the NACLA-West Mexico Project...
...equality rather than hierarchy in making social decisions...
...This group's activities have aggravated Del Monte executives and helped motivate the company's public relations manager, William Braznell, Jr., to develop a strategy for dealing with corporate critics...
...And for countless people, not only in Cuba but throughout the Americas and Europe, the man who best represents this revolutionary culture today is Carlos Puebla...
...While repressing the trade union movement, the new Lopez Portillo government has made simultaneous overtures towards the left by offering to legalize the PCM and other left parties...
...The Bolivian MIR condemns the immigration on the following grounds: * "The entrance of German and Dutch colonists, with colonial and racist attitudes, who have supported the white supremacy regimes of southern Africa is a new and dangerous threat to Bolivia's national sovereignty and territorial integrity...
...What artists need is economic security based on their contribution to the Revolution...
...You had to see who you were with before you sang, because to sing those kind of songs was running a risk, the same risk as those who passed out anti-Batista leaflets, or placed a bomb...
...At the beginning of the Revolution there were artists who said, 'I don't want to involve myself politically...
...We have gathered the debris left by police who were set loose to sack the UNAM, and have begun the task of explaining what happened and proceeding to reorganize and strengthen the union - this time with a less spectacular, more profound style of work...
...One is Jose Marti...
...More nationalistic Pemex executives - like former )ireetor General Antonio J. Bermudez also argue that Mexico should not become a big oil exporter but should conserve the oil for future generations...
...Do you belong to a union...
...The cancion campesina is very beautiful musically, but it talked only of the beauty of the landscapes, the greenness of the countryside, the rustle of the palm trees...
...But there is no such thing as art for art's sake...
...The following quote from page 83, the Corporate Action Guide...
...Let them speak for themselves...
...which appeared in the December 1976 issue of a business publication called the Public Relations Journal...
...Don't make it easy for them...
...And in reality, that is my function, to tell this story...
...Echeverria also said that whatever oil was exported from the new fields should go to diversified markets to reduce dependency on the United States, which already accounted for 62 percent of Mexico's trade...
...italics added] There's the clinker...
...I've always tried to sing as the people talk, because I have two great teachers...
...The principal strike leaders were kidnapped the previous day by plainclothes police agents, during a militant march of more than 100,000 strike supporters in downtown Mexico City...
...Mexico's Minister of National Resources affirmed this and said, "Mexico will never be the Trojan Horse of the multinational corporations...
...But unfortunately, the record doesn't justify this confidence...
...What are some of the changes you have seen in the cultural life of Cuba since the Revolution...
...If "obscene profits" are the issue, let's not try to justify our God given right to obscene profits...
...The plan is a give-away program against the national interest...
...Although representatives of Angola's white population visited Bo28DATELINE * DATELINE livia for talks, nothing came of the proposal...
...I am an artist.' But for me everything is political...
...The radical - whether terrorist or revolutionary or reformist - is constantly probing for weaknesses in our business system that he can turn to his own advantage or exploit for the benefit of his cause...
...Until recently, Pemex made a point of limiting the exploitation of crude oil in order to have more funds available for refineries and pelrochemical plants...
...Let's tell the American people why we need profits, what they do for the people, how profits relate to.jobs, better living conditions, and so on...
...In well over a hundred songs he has blended forceful but poetic lyrics with traditional Cuban folkmusic to immortalize the heroes of the Cuban Revolution, of Vietnam, and Angola, as well as the daily struggle of the Cuban people to improve their lives and defend theil Revolution...
...The STUNAM - Workers' Union of the UNAM, which represents the ma- jority of the University's tens of thousands of workers and professors - called the strike on June 20...
...and equality in the ability of individuals to develop their full potential as human beings...
...The distributors are among the largest in the U.S.: Florida Gas, Southern Natural Resources, Tenneco, Texas Eastern, El Paso, and Transcontinental...
...And we all know where it's stashed...
...So that is the secret -- another success of the Revolution...
...In relation to art, there are new avenues, new mediums...
...Back then it wasn't exactly known as protest music, but as subversive music...
...financing for Mexico's development...
...monopoly concentration and vertical integration, I recently picked up a food company's annual report which, you guessed it, highlighted its record earnings, enormous share of market, and the efficiency of its vertical integration...
...In fact, tomorrow morning sections of my union are meet ing with the new Minister of Culture, Armando Hart...
...The main thing to remember about these hard core revolutionary groups is their total lack of interest in reform - or working for government and business reform "through the system...
...The rest of the important union struggles have also been "resolved," in a way which has left a great silence over the country: Fundidora Monterrey [steel mill] - workers signed an agreement which was proposed by the bosses at the start of the 49-day strike...
...In addition, Pemex recently announced that it is going ahead with plans to build a $1.5 billion 750-mile natural gas pipeline to the U.S...
...By NACLA-West Agribusiness Project For an analysis of Del Monte's global operations, see the NACLA Report "Del Monte: Bitter Fruits," Sept...
...Of course for the old Batista bourgeoisie, the only kind of Cuban folkmusic was the over-romanticized songs of the Cuban peasants...
...A recent letter to NACLA from a STUNAM striker starkly summarizes the lessons of STUNAM's defeat as well as of recent setbacks for workers across the nation: Little by little life returns to normal...
...surrendering too easily a resource which has formed the basis of Mexico's economic development program ever since President Lazaro Cardenas nationalized the oil industry in 1938...
...INFONAVIT [government low-cost housing agency - police broke the strike within three minutes after it began...
...Del Monte, which has been exposed for its political payoffs abroad and criticized for its exploitation of cannery and field workers in South Africa, the Philippines, and California, feels especially vulnerable...
...And that is the line I want to follow...
...The construction project will be headed by Bechtel Corporation of San Francisco...
...The development of Mexico in the near future demands that oil be used to satisfy Mexico's demands," he has said...
...Panorama rather bleak - but the working class can lose all of the battles except the last one, which it has already won...
...Already, Pemex's massive needs have led to sharp cutbacks in other investment areas, including steel, leading to rising unemployment (estimated at 40 percent...
...The decision to become a major exporter runs counter to policies followed for nearly 40 years, and it has generated intense controversity within Mexico...
...Brazil and Venezuela, the MIR says, agreed to receive only professionals and highly specialized technicians who would be rigorously selected...
...And then afterwards, when our movement triumphed, then it was a different story...
...And the other is Fidel...
...In fear of undermining that process of legalization, however, the PCM has been cautious to avoid open criticism of the government...
...His basic weapon is propaganda, backed by research, organization, and a thorough understanding of mass psychology and the mass communications media...
...Everyone involved in art belongs to this union...
...We have discipline and direction like other workers, and if I arrive late for an appointment, I have to explain why...
...Finally, a word about long-term strategy...
...It remains to be seen whether the government's occupation of the UNAM will now force the PCM and other left parties to reconsider the political reforms they can expect from a government hemmed in by the needs of international capital...
...As public relations professionals, we have to anticipate this probing action and counsel our management and clients to do the same...
...To cover its immediate needs and to raise money for longer-term projects, Mexico needed loans...
...In February 1977, when newly inaugurated President Lopez Portillo visited Washington, oil - and loans - were the main topic of discussion...
...The second: "My company needn't worry about being attacked by radicals because we're doing such a great public relations job...
...The underground Bolivian Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), in the Feb...
...Then, of course, the bourgeoisie said that this wasn't folklore, this was political...
...What could be more obvious than the need to know our antagonists - their personal backgrounds, philosophies, tactics, and objectives...
...Mexico's oil CENCOS RAID On June 7, in the wake of the crackdown on STUNAM, the Mexican authorities also raided the offices of CENCOS (National Center for Social Communications) and four other church-funded organizations...
...all very beautiful things, but none of these songs talked of the hunger of the campesino...
...Actually, the radical movement with its recent revelations of corporate "hit" lists and sabotage plans, is a fairly recent development...
...This strategy, also known as "keeping a low profile," may very well be successful, particularly if the confrontation is poorly organized and under-capitalized, as initial organizing efforts frequently are...
...The struggle with corporate power will itself produce the forces and movement which will create alternatives to the present system . . Significant alternatives must be characterized by equality: equality in sharing the material benefits of society...
...But we are workers because we work...
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