30 SOCIAL SCIENTIST International developed the policy of the Communist Parties towards parliament under conditions of a general democratic struggle. Georgi Dimitrov discussed this question in detail in his report to the Seventh Congress of the Communist International and said : If we Communists are asked whether we advocate the united front only in the struggle for partial demands, or whether we are prepared to share the responsibility even when it will be a question of forming a government on the basis of the united front, then we say with a full sense of our responsibility : Yes, we recognize that a situation may arise in which the formation of a government of the proletarian united front, or the anti-fascist people's front,will become not only possible but necessary in the interests of the proletariat. Dimitrov also analysed the character of the reformist as well as left-sectarian mistakes on this question. The above-mentioned historical experience of the world Communist movement was assimilated and brought up-to-date in the Declaration of the 81 Communist Paities in 1961. Chile was the first country where, within a decade after the 1961 Declaration, the popular forces came to power in a perfectly constitutional way, by scoring an electoral victory. The government of the Popular Unity Bloc headed by President Allende has been overthrown by a fascist coup three years after it came to power. The experience of Chile should be studied dispassionately and objectively without any preconceived and foregone conclusion. It is undeniable that the victory of the Popular Unity Bloc in Chile in the presidential election of 1970 and the formation of a government headed by President Allende ushered in a new and qualitatively higher stage in the struggle of the people of Chile. The government energetically began a programme of anti-imperialist and anti-oligarchic transformations. This, the government of the Popular Unity Bloc did in the face of acute and ceaseless confrontation with the forces of internal reaction aided by US imperialism from the very beginning of its existence. The 1970 election victory did not give the Popular Unity Bloc absolute political and economic power. The majority in the Chilean parliament, the National Congress, was commanded by the rightists who continued to flout the will of the people. The positions of the oligarchy were undermined but not destroyed. It p3ssessed considerable material resources and many enterprises, controlled most of the newspapers, journals, radio stations, and mass media for ideological subversion. These are some examples of the difficulties that confronted the government of President Allende. Despite obstacles, the government of the Popular Unity Bloc has to its credit considerable achievement in anti-imperialist and anti-oligarchic transformation: government control of monopoly enterprises, abolition of the latifundia and solution of the agrarian problem, nationalization of the copper, sulphur and iron mines, reduction of unemployment and rise in