70 SOCIAL SCIENTIST that the measure constituted a "democratic opening". In fact, it was a step further in the reconstitudon of bourgeois political power as six of the seven were clearly right-wing and only Unidad the organ of the Communist Paity of Peru (PCP). was a left organ. Marka and other militant publications remained banned. The "democratic opening" was followed six days later, January 8, by the deportation of four leaders ofthePSR: Leonidas Rodriguez, Armando Valdes, Jorge Dellepiane and Manuel Benza. Simultaneously, intense contacts began among the leading right-wing parties (APRA, Accion Popular and Partide Popular Cristiane) with a view to obtaining the most favourable conditions in an expected electoral solution to the political crisis. The Right-Wing Offensive On February 6, Morales Bermudez makes public the "Plan Tupac Amaru" the long-expected government plan for the second phase of the revolution and which would replace the more radical (and embarassing) "Plan Inca". The stated purpose of the "Plan Tupac Amaru" is to "consolidate the Revolutionary Process, hindering the possibility of it moving towards communist statism or, as a reaction, haik to surpassed forms of pre-reuolutionary capitalism." It also abandoned the goal of the Velasco government of creating a dominant "social sector" in the economy and undermined the small amount of power acquired by the working class in the capitalist sector by stating the need to reform the Law of Workers Communities (Communidades Laborales) in order to "promote investment" and to "guarantee the direction of the enterprises by the entrepreneurs." The month of February ended with the police occupation of the National University of Education (la Gantuta) and the massive arrest of 650 students. The government claimed it had become a ^centre for Marxist-Leninist indoctrination9". During the month of March, the reactionary forces both within and without the government continue to escalate their offensive. The traditional parties, unsatisfied with the promise of a new constitution contained in the "Plan Tupac Amaru", continued to press the regime for a clear statement regarding the timing and conditions of a general election. This political offensive was supplemented by continuing massive dismissals of militant trade-unionists under Decree No II-76-TR. This decree had enabled the capitalists to dismiss 32,000 workers in the Lima area during 1976 severely weakening the working-class movement. At an international level the move to the right found expression in closer relationships with Argentina and Brazil, and a friendlier attitude towards Chile. On March 3, Morales Bermudez decorated Argentinian President Videla with the "Sol del Peru", the highest distinction granted by the-Peruvian state. This was followed on March 14 by the decoration of Gen Pinochet with the "Cruz Peruana al Merito