First Published: Workers’ Advocate, Vol. 8, No. 7, July 24, 1978.
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With profound sadness, the National Executive Committee of the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists received the news of the death of Comrade David Benquis, founding member and leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Chile, who died of cancer in Paris, on May 29, 1978. Comrade Benquis was the beloved leader of the heroic Party of the Chilean proletariat. He was one of the pioneers, in Chile and in Latin America, of the struggle against revisionism. His name is irrevocably associated with the glorious role the Revolutionary Communist Party of Chile has played in the struggle of the international Marxist-Leninist communist movement against revisionism of all types, including the new international opportunist trend based on the “three worlds” theory, and with its persistent struggle under the most difficult of conditions, against the fascist rule of the lackeys of U.S. imperialism and against their revisionist collaborators. This immense loss to the Chilean Party is also a huge loss to the entire international Marxist-Leninist communist movement. We U.S. Marxist-Leninists, who have never ceased to be inspired by the example of the heroic Revolutionary Communist Party of Chile, pledge to carry out our internationalist duty to our Chilean comrades and the Chilean people, the revolutionary overthrow of U.S. imperialism. The National Executive Committee of the COUSML extends the deep condolences of all U.S. Marxist-Leninists to the Chilean Party upon the death of its beloved leader. We stand firmly at its side in the struggle against imperialism, revisionism and all reaction and for the victory of the revolution and socialism.
National Executive Committee
Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists