MIGUEL, NOW IS YOUR TURN!

Mario Garcés, in the preface to the book "Miguel Enriquez and the revolutionary project in Chile", related that Allende, in the middle of defending the currency on September 11th, told his daughter Beatriz to communicate Miguel Enriquez -MIR’s General Secretary- the following message: Miguel, now is your turn!

It was late... The tragedy excreted from the rotten guts from cowards and traitors, already covered Chile. There was only the resistance of dignity, the heroic attitude of revolutionaries...

Here are a few paragraphs –perhaps- the last interview to Miguel Enriquez, October 8th, 1973. There are many teachings: Miguel is elevated as a Master, that reformism has wanted to silence. Let's see.

To the question: why the Government of Chile fell? He responds:

"The crisis of the domination system that had been developing for years in Chile, was crystallized in the rise to the government of “Unidad Popular”, deepening the anti-bourgeois crisis and multiplying the rise of mass movement. This generated conditions that allowed -if government had been used as an instrument of workers' struggles- to finish in the conquest of power by workers and a proletarian revolution. But the reformist project that tested the UP was imprisoned in the bourgeois order, it did not hit the group of the dominant classes, along with the hope of an alliance with a bourgeois sector, it did not support on the revolutionary organization of workers, with its own organs of power, it rejected the alliance with soldiers and NCOs and preferred strengthened within the capitalist State apparatus and officer corps of FFAA seeking to seal an alliance with a fraction of the bourgeoisie. The reformist illusion allowed the dominant classes strengthen in the State’s superstructure and from there begin its reactionary counter-offensive, first relying on business unions, then on the petit-bourgeoisie, and finally on the officer corps of FFAA, and then overthrow bloodily the government and suppress workers. The reformist illusion was paid and today the workers pay it viciously, its leaders and parties who tragically and heroically defended it until the last minute, confirming dramatically today the phrase of the century French revolutionary Saint-Just from the XVII century: Who makes revolutions halfway, he is only digging his own grave”.

Last question: Would you like to add anything else? asks Miguel:

Yes, today, Day of the Heroic Guerrilla, first of all to pay tribute to Salvador Allende, who gave his life defending his beliefs and thousands of heroes and martyrs in the streets, plazas, factories, villages and fields of Chile, of all the leftist organizations and workers who shed their blood, fighting against fascism, and those who still are falling or tortured today. In particular paying tribute to the member of the Central Committee and founder of the “Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria” (MIR), head of the Regional Committee of Valdivia, and 24 years of Fernando Krauss...”

With Chavez, San Pedro Alejandrino will not be repeated; the Currency will not be repeated!