Chile

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 […]