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Workers Press no. 309, 23 November 1970 · scan page 4

Topics: Latin America, Communist Party and Stalinism

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(It is important to remember that the Cuban Castro regime was the first openly to praise the Peruvian junta, even while it holds in jail peasant leaders such as Hugo Blanco.)

Deal The Stalinist strategy in this explosive situation is as clear as it is deadly. The masses of Peru - and other countries where similar regimes are in power-are to be tied to the policies of the new-style officer caste, which, the Kremlin hopes, can be used as a bargaining counter in its dealings with US imperialism.

This we can deduce from Shugolvsky's article, where he writes:

"To my mind the situation in Peru is favourable to a gradual rapprochement between the military and the working masses. In Peru the civil mission of the military has spread outside the narrow propaganda aims set forth by the Pentagon . ..

Intermediary

This intermediary role of the military between the masses and imperialism thus becomes all important for both the Stalinists-and the imperialists.

The Torres regime in Bolivia, which recently came to power on the basis of a movement similar to Peru, is marked