COMMUNIST PARTY ORIENTATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400410003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 4, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Chile
SUBJECT Communist Party Or tsrtlc
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DATE DISTR. 4 "er. 1949
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focent_ diecussi a ai-tthip the t+y mis Parttr OW6ftle (PCCh) have centered
on questions raised in corusectien with n6w*d' " ivee, probably furnished by
Viotorio Codovilla,rt Argentine 0bmamrnist ,cad The following ans'mrs to
various points of discussion< reflect the cat6ftt orientation of the Party,
1? Flow can the strong influence of ?lrnerion od ercial activities be countered?
a. The general party line of the Co=nxtdt Party indicates that at the
moment the whole Party must cancent S exclusively on the struggle
against irr-periali and in t _nreat, ant in favor of peace,
b. This fight includes the following cents: (1) Strikes and voluminous
petitions; (2) Campaign for agitati_ Ot the masses, demonstrating that
the economic situation is dam excl _ vely to the present condition of
being a semi-colonial country domined by American capital; (3) Demon
titration that if them were commercial exchange with the USSR, Chile
could easily realize a poliev of nationalisation of industries without
depending- on the it ernati aa1 monapelies d
co The struggle in Chile is summed up in these three fundamental points.
On the other hand, In other:f-ountriee such as Argentina, according to
news received in Fatty handqua tens, it deals with seeking a formula for
supporting the government economically, but not politically, so that Peron's
policy will be favorable to Lthe t1SSI,
d With respect to strikess, the Coca mist Party of Chile has a criterion.
It does not accept "general triheaI since such a course is considered
to be the supreme appeal of the" proletariat, but,:-on the contrary uses a
new policy of revolving strikes Mich results in almost complete paralysis
of the industries, without a1 the government. This system of revolving
strikes has the following fub tale: In each industry there is a
division of labdro in the eamer adustry there are the miners, the carriers,
the railroad wor rI , the a asp -yicrkml's and finally tlti@ e
these are dim various ndbann; thus the policy is to paralyze one
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