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Is This the Year of Structural Change in Chile?
Is This the Year of Structural Change in Chile?
The Left is racking up victory after victory in Chile. Now, Chileans have the chance to clear away the last remnants of Pinochet's authoritarian, neoliberal rule by writing a new, democratic constitution.
·jacobinmag.com·
Is This the Year of Structural Change in Chile?
Revolt in Chile: Life Against Capital
Revolt in Chile: Life Against Capital
The October uprising in Chile is an example of what we would call a generalized passage from private malaise to collective revolt, a moment in which those sufferings that had been lived in domestic confinement, with guilt and loneliness, are brought out into public space, and understood as socially and politically produced, awakening a will to struggle as well as a mutual recognition between those who share experiences, feelings, fears, and common hopes.
·viewpointmag.com·
Revolt in Chile: Life Against Capital
Chile’s Struggle to Democratize the State
Chile’s Struggle to Democratize the State
Will the people of Chile be able to shape their own destiny via a plebiscite? Two months before the scheduled vote, the answer remains uncertain.
·nacla.org·
Chile’s Struggle to Democratize the State
The Dramatic Fall of Chile as Latin America’s Neoliberal Role Model
The Dramatic Fall of Chile as Latin America’s Neoliberal Role Model
After the outbreak of the most intense and massive social protests ever recorded in the history of Chile, on November 16 the government and most political parties signed an agreement to restore peace and public order and initiate a process to draft a new constitution. The protests, triggered by the rise in subway fares on More
·counterpunch.org·
The Dramatic Fall of Chile as Latin America’s Neoliberal Role Model
What Has Just Happened in Chile?
What Has Just Happened in Chile?
Note from LeftEast editors: This text, composed cooperatively by four Chilean academics, was read during the opening ceremony of the Sixth International Days of Latin American Problems (VI Jornadas…
·criticatac.ro·
What Has Just Happened in Chile?
CHILE: ‘There Has Been a Citizen Awakening of Historical Proportions’
CHILE: ‘There Has Been a Citizen Awakening of Historical Proportions’
Protests broke out in Chile in October 2019, initially led by students rejecting an increase in the price of transport and quickly escalating into mass demonstrations urging structural change. Protests were repressed with savagery by security forces. How did something that started with a small increase in the price of the metro ticket become a mobilisation of unprecedented dimensions?
·portside.org·
CHILE: ‘There Has Been a Citizen Awakening of Historical Proportions’
Chileans Are Hungry for an Alternative to Neoliberalism
Chileans Are Hungry for an Alternative to Neoliberalism
After continuous mass protests in Chile, left forces in the country may be able to build a governing majority. But whether they can or not, it’s clear that huge swaths of the country are desperate for an alternative to the neoliberal order that has reigned in the country for decades.
·jacobinmag.com·
Chileans Are Hungry for an Alternative to Neoliberalism
Two Reports from Chile - The Bullet
Two Reports from Chile - The Bullet
The Neoliberal Miracle Under Fire Unexpected turmoil erupted in Chile on October 18th, when high school students mobilized against a subway fare increase.
·socialistproject.ca·
Two Reports from Chile - The Bullet
Chile awakens: Some thoughts on the Chilean uprising
Chile awakens: Some thoughts on the Chilean uprising
Everywhere you walk in the streets of Santiago, there is political graffiti spray painted on the buildings. A popular slogan among the graffiti is “Chile despertó” – Chile woke up. And truly,…
·oaklandsocialist.com·
Chile awakens: Some thoughts on the Chilean uprising
Some conversations in Chile
Some conversations in Chile
A few conversations today: The young woman working at the front desk at the hotel where I’m staying: When she showed me out, I commented on the sign on the front door which said that they support t…
·oaklandsocialist.com·
Some conversations in Chile