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Struggle for Memory Continues 50 Years After Chile Coup
This Monday marks 50 years since the civil-military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Fifty years since the bombing of the seat of government at “La Moneda,” fifty years since air force...
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Chile, AFL-CIO & The 50th Anniversary of The US Backed Coup
On the 50th anniversary of the US AFL-CIO backed coup in Chile, an educational meeting sponsored by Labor Education Project On International Operations Of The AFL-CIO was held on September 10, 2023 in...
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Duck!
This year marks the anniversaries of two drastically different events that loomed all too large in my life. The first occurred a century ago in Hollywood: on October 16, 1923, Walt Disney signed into...
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Mapuche Hunger Strike Reaches Crisis Point: Political Prisoners Fight for...
The renewed hunger strike of fifteen political prisoners of the Mapuche resistance movement in Chile has reached a highly critical stage. The prisoners are members of the Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco...
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Feminist and Mutual Aid in the Wake of Chilean Wildfires
“The most important thing is to take care of the place where you’re from. If you don’t, who else will?” asks Ana Paula Fuentes. She’s sitting in a deck chair surrounded by the ashes of what was her...
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Learning from Chile
In his 2021 book Time for Socialism French economist Thomas Piketty urgently made the call for “participatory socialism.” He envisioned it as a system that would preside over a fairer distribution of...
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Workers Can Halt the War Machine
History is often understood through the stories of “great men,” reflecting capitalism’s encouragement of the individual and suspicion of the collective. Socialists, understandably, have traditionally...
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8M in Santiago de Chile Blooms Again
It is no exaggeration to say that this year’s International Women’s Day march, called by Santiago’s Coordinadora Feminista 8M, began with an underground rumble. Line 1 of the metro, which crosses the...
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Chile “The working classes have dropped out”
As head of state since March 2022, elected with the hope of reorienting his country on the path of progressivism, Chile’s young president Gabriel Boric (38) seems rather to have refocused his politics,...
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“The Working Classes Have Dropped Out”
As head of state since March 2022, elected with the hope of reorienting his country on the path of progressivism, Chile’s young president Gabriel Boric (38) seems rather to have refocused his politics,...
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Why Chile Has a Palestinian Football Team – the Bigger History
Club Deportivo Palestino, a football team, play in a uniform of white, green and red. Their stadium flies Palestinian flags and their social sports club boasts an open-air pool in the shape of pre-1948...
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From Privatization To Communal Water Management in Chile
One of the key demands of the movement to de-privatize water in Chile is that water should be recognized as a human right, which requires infrastructure that ensures clean water and access to it. In...
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