Chile

On Sunday, December 14, 2025, the second round of presidential elections was held in Chile. The government candidate, Jeannette Jara, suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the far-right candidate, José Antonio Kast. Jara […]

On Sunday, November 16, presidential, congressional, and senatorial elections will take place in Chile. In these elections there is a high probability that a candidate from the extreme right will be elected as president. In […]

On the fifty-second anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet’s coup in Chile socialistwprld.net is reposting a 2013 article by Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary, examining those events. Tony’s 2023 book, Chile – How and Why the Revolution […]

We will take 11 March, 1990, when President Patricio Aylwin took office, as a starting point. He was presented as a great democrat, despite the fact that this character was one of the main promoters […]

On October 26th and 27th elections took place in Chile for regional governors and Cores (Deputies) for the regional governments and mayors and councilors for the municipal governments. The elections were held in the middle […]

On 4 September 1970, the self-proclaimed Marxist Salvador Allende was elected as President of Chile. Allende’s victory came as a shock to the ruling Chilean capitalist class and US imperialism. This was the first time […]

The Independent Socialist Group (ISG) interviewed Hugo Rodríguez, a member of Socialismo Revolucionario (then Workers Democracy), the Chilean section of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI), with which ISG stands in political solidarity. Hugo […]

The elections on 7 May show us, once again, that the people are tired of the corrupt political caste that rules Chile. In the elections there were more than 34% spoiled, blank or ‘none of […]

Friday, October 18, 2019, is marked as the day on which a large-scale revolutionary process began in Chile. A massive mobilization, where millions of young people, workers, women, residents, and social organizations took to the […]

The activists of the movement in Chile have suffered an undeniable defeat in the plebiscite on the new constitution. The result has been seen as a bucket of cold water over all activists, with the […]

Given that the proposal for a new constitution does not mean that we will see substantive changes to the current economic system, and the fundamental problems that the Chilean working class has, this makes adopting […]

A month has passed since the installation of the new government in Chile and the new President, Gabriel Boric. Yet the political, economic and social instability continue to be the main characteristic of the current […]

On Sunday, 19 December, the second round of the presidential election was held in Chile. Gabriel Boric, of the Frente Amplio electoral coalition, obtained an overwhelming victory, winning more than four and a half million […]

José Antonio Kast, the far-right candidate in the Chilean presidential elections who defends the Pinochet dictatorship, is a threat to the freedoms and social conquests of the people of Chile. Kast does not hide that […]

On 27 October 2021, a hunger strike began by the mothers of political prisoners who were imprisoned as a result of the popular revolt in Chile, which began on 18 October 2019. Millions took to […]

A mass mobilization on Monday, October 18, showed us that the fight against the dictatorship of the capitalist and neoliberal right is still more in force than ever. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets […]

This month completes two years since the social rebellion which began on 18 October 2019. This event, the most important in recent Chilean history, signalled a new chapter in the crisis of the entire political […]

On the twentieth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York which took place on 11th September 2001 capitalist commentators are revisiting these historic events. The anniversary comes as US and […]

For three decades, the traditional right and the parties of the ‘Concertación’ co-governed in Chile and were also the main ‘opposition’. Both conglomerates agreed to manage and deepen the economic and social model of neoliberal […]

More than a year after the start of the pandemic, the government and the business political caste in Chile have proven to be completely incapable of offering a response to the immediate needs of the […]

Breaking news: Since the article below was written further protests have erupted in Chile. Congress had approved a proposal allowing workers to withdraw another 10% from their pension contributions. The government tried to block this. […]

While the pro-bosses elite who have traditionally betrayed the social movements are forcing through a new fraud to save a broken system that enriches, every day, a small sector of Chilean society, in the prisons […]

After postponement, a referendum was finally held on the Chilean constitution on 25 October and resulted in a crushing majority in favour of change. After 90.78% of the vote was counted, 78.24% cast to change […]

Mass protests erupted throughout Chile on the evening of 22 July as the Senate was voting on constitutional reforms relating to the pensions system, called AFP. Due to the mass poverty and hunger gripping the […]

The fiftieth anniversary of the election of the Popular Unity government takes place on 4 September 1970 and represents an opportunity for the international working class movement to remember what this victory represented and draw […]

Using the covid-19 pandemic as an excuse, the criminal Chilean government, led by Sebastian Piñera, gave a blank cheque to the police – carabineros – to brutally repress a protest of the working class on […]

Since October 2019, the political and social situation has changed in a very favorable sense for the Chilean working class and other parts of the population. The country saw a mass uprising which was a […]

The following joint declaration was initiated by trade union figures, and left organisations, in Chile, including members of Socialismo Revolucionario (Chilean section of the CWI): Once again, the workers and the peoples of the world […]

Vilma Alvarez is a supporter of Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI Chile) and a leader of a trade union at the Jumbo supermarket company. The leadership of the union confederation Vilma belongs to, Co-ordinadora de Sindicatos del […]

Download the full thesis here. Part 1 The explosive mass movements which have rocked Latin America, Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran and some other countries have opened a new chapter in the struggle against capitalism. These […]

In relation to the plebiscite that has been called for the 26 April 2020, it is necessary to make clear some issues before marking a Yes or No on the ballot paper. The result of […]

All of Chile’s political parties have signed up to the misnamed, “The Pact for social peace and a new constitution,” with the exception of the Communist Party, which has vacillated on the issue. The Chilean […]

We are facing a combined crisis in Chile, in terms of the political regime that uses the Constitution of 1980, and the neo-liberal capitalist model that has exploited that Constitution. The emergence of popular protest […]

Tuesday, 12 November, saw an estimated three million workers, youth and students, take to the streets throughout Chile, in yet another mass protest and strike. After nearly one month of protests and brutal repression, this […]

Freedom for Chilean soldier David Veloso. On October 18, the Chilean people began a generalized social uprising, triggered by a rise in passenger transportation in Santiago de Chile and violent repression of secondary students demonstrating […]

A sea of Chilean workers, youth, students and others flooded onto the streets of central Santiago, on Friday 25 October. It was the largest demonstration in Chilean history. Up to two million demanded the end […]

The repression of the Chilean workers and youth must stop For a general strike and an end to the State of Emergency The Military General Javier Iturriaga, who is in charge of the State of […]

Translation of Declaration by Socialism Revolucionario (CWI Chile) -18/10/2019 The social explosion that has erupted in Chile today was inevitable. It represents the accumulation of too many years of abuse of miserably low salaries which […]

The terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York in 2001 was not the first ‘9/11’. In Chile on 11 September 1973, a bloody coup, led by General Pinochet and backed by the US […]

The television, radio and Chilean press are permanently attacking and accusing the Mapuche people of “violent and terrorist” acts. All of this avalanche of false information is aimed at discrediting the mass mobilisations of the […]

Here we publish an article by Celso Calfullan, from Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Chile) on the development of the Frente Amplio (FA – Broad Front), a new Left formation which saw an explosive growth in […]

Solidarity appeal for messages of protest

General strike threatened for 4 November as protests grow

After student protests, working class returns to streets

Dictatorship methods still reign in “democratic” Chile

Student and youth revolt continues

New chapter opens in country’s political and ‘moral’ crisis

1973 bloody coup against Popular Unity government

First Santiago Socialism event organised by CWI in Chile

Social and political instability to continue into next period

Preparing for a new Bachelet government, Marcel Claude and the building of a new force for workers and youth

In re-building a socialist movement, lessons of coup need to be learnt

None can really claim a victory

New laws to repress social protest

Riot police attack students demonstrating at Presidential Palace, general strike called in response

Relative “social peace” shattered

Workers join students on stage of struggle

Over 500,000 march on 30 June

Largest protest movement for more than 20 years

Follow their example of struggle

But what is hidden behind the festivities?

The government hid information to the families for hours

Joe Higgins MEP denounces the “cynical exploitation of the destruction caused by the earthquake and tsunami by the dock companies”

Facing the social earthquake, with solidarity and unity

The catastrophe reveals the precariousness of the Chilean state and the capitalist model presented as ‘very successful’.

Police action proceeds against victims, instead of helping

Prepare for struggle!

No to repression against Mapuche people!

No difference between main candidates

False representation of the right and the Concertación

"Release Elena Varela!"

Mass struggles erupt

Movement from below opens the way to a crisis from above.

Banks make super profits while students face sub-standard education

Students join local protests

On the 10th December, at 14.15 hours, the greatest killer and thief that Chile has ever known, the former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, died.

Stop the reprisals against the leaders of the student movement, the “penguin revolution”.

Central Santiago streets a ‘battleground’

Scandal of state compensation paid to mass murderer

400,000 on strike and occupying schools

‘Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are’

Sixteen years of neo-liberal policies

More than 200 000 people marched through the streets of Santiago on Tuesday 8 March to say farewell to Gladys Marin, who died of cancer on Sunday night.

Exceeding all estimates, more than 50,000 people protested against the APEC summit and the presence of George Bush in the country on Friday 19 November in the streets of Santiago.

SALVADOR ALLENDE was narrowly elected President of Chile on 4 September 1970, receiving 36.3% of the vote. He defeated the conservative Christian Democrat government which had been discredited in the eyes of workers and peasants […]