The revolutionary upsurge of the workers’ movement has seen a significant increase in political class consciousness since the victory obtained over the attempted coup d'état of 29 June this year. This increase has been expressed not only in the occupation of more than 500 factories in Santiago and an equivalent number in the rest of the country, but fundamentally in the arming of the proletariat which has already become general in the vanguard sectors of the working class.
The embryos of workers’ and popular power, generated above all in the cordones industriales, have been strengthened to such an extent that in numerous enterprises there exists a duality of power between the bourgeoisie and [illegible].
The armed struggle must be initiated not when the proletariat enters a period of retreat, as can happen in the face of massive repression by the Armed Forces, but precisely in a period of revolutionary upsurge of the masses like the present. The dangers of foguista or ‘militarist’ deviations will be overcome, not simply through the organizations of the revolutionary left understanding the errors committed by the guerilla groups of Latin America, but as a result of the massive character which the armed struggle will acquire in Chile, with the incorporation of thousands of proletarian men and women in the Revolutionary People’s Army. The determined attitude of the proletariat will be a catalyzing factor in accelerating the present crisis within the Armed Forces, impelling the soldiers and sailors to pass over to the cause of socialism. ‘Proletarians. Forward! To the Attack!’