Peru is an economic crisis in which a local cyclical downturn has been strongly reinforced since mid-1974 by the effects of the world recession. Betray Hugo Blanco in La Convencion, late 1975 ion publications), but less than a yea later things are back to square one - with one important difference. This time the repression is falling exclusively on the workers movement. Not one of the bourgeois oppositionists who came back under the September 1975 amnesty has been touched. BEHEAD Blanco is not the first figure in the workers movement to be deported. On 15 June the regime also deported the legal adviser of the Vitarte nylon workers' union, Ricardo Diaz Chavez, accusing him of responsibility for the battle on the Central Highway. The regime obviousty preters wis tacul to its earlier one of imprisonment without trial, which backfired in April when i was forced to rerease twi miners" leaders and four of their legal advisers after an international campaign OL STOLES!
The aim is to behead the mass movement in Peru of its leadership as it moves to resist the vicious attacks on its living standards. That is why it is important to mount an international campaign for the repatriation of Diaz Chavez and Blanco, who have been victimised for pointing out a simple wum. mat me new reruvir capitalism, with its state-run mines, agricultural cooperatives and Toyota car plants, is just as incapable as the old Peruvian capitalism of providing for the vital needs of the majority of the people.