Chile: The Government’s New Law and Order Agenda Deepens its Rightward Turn

The growing demonstration of students and professors, who are now facing a turning point, have forced the government to close ranks with parliament, the mayors, the right wing, and the so-called New Majority, to put an end to the demonstrations.

Chile: 200 thousand people take to the streets in a new nationwide march for Education

Photo: La Izquierda Diario Chile Spanish version from La Izquierda Diario Chile Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Santiago and a number of regions throughout the country in opposition to the Government proposed education reforms. The professors took the lead, firmly stating that the current Carrera Profesional Docente (a regulation governing the career path […]

May 1st Across Chile

May 1st Across Chile Important Combative Unionist March at the CUT in Santiago de Chile. While the leaders of the CUT reaffirmed their support of Bachelet’s reforms, along with government officials of the New Majority (Nueva Mayoría), more than 350 workers, headed by rank and file combative unionists, marched together denouncing the government’s cosmetic reforms, […]

“The anti-road blocking bill seems to have been copied from one of Pinochet’s presidential decrees in Chile in 1983”

“The anti-road blocking bill seems to have been copied from one of Pinochet’s presidential decrees in Chile in 1983” Christian Castillo, national leader of the PTS (Partido de los Trabajadores Socialistas) and a provincial deputy for Buenos Aires province for the Left and Workers’ Front (FIT), declared today in a radio broadcast that “the so-called […]

Chile: The Bosses break off talks

Thirty days ago workers at the port of Angamos, in Mejillones, in the north of the country, began a heroic strike for the recognition rights of temporary workers (“eventuales”), who are excluded by law from agreements between the employer and the union. Fifteen days ago, workers at the port of San Antonio, on Chile’s central […]

Chile: Dockworkers are once again on strike. Victory to the dockworkers!

From Mejillones to the country’s ports. From repression to the National Dockworkers’ Strike 12-23-2013 The strike of around 400 dockworkers belonging to the Union No. 2 of the Sindicato de Trabajadores Contratados y Eventuales Unidos (United Permanent and Temporary Workers’ Union), the local sector of the Unión Portuario (Portworkers’ Union) begins. The strike hits the […]

Great students and workers’ demonstration in Chile

PTR-CcC (Revolutionary Workers’ Party – Class against Class), from Chile June 27, 2013 On June 26, the students’ struggle against the marketization of the education – a legacy of Pinochet’s regime which has been maintained and deepened by the Concertación coalition, which has governed since the return of democracy in 1990 – took a big […]

Let’s Make a Historic May Day for This Historic Moment

As encampments for Palestine are being organized all over the country, it is essential for us to heed the call of Palestinian labor unions and mobilize on May Day. We must unite workers and students in a movement against the genocide, against repression, and for a free Palestine.

Nancy Fraser, Jacques Rancière, Silvia Federicci and many others say: Stop the Criminalization of Palestine Solidarity in France!

Anasse Kazib, a union activist and former presidential candidate, was recently interrogated by French anti-terrorist police. In this open letter, more than 800 prominent intellectuals and activists call to stand united against the criminalization of Palestine solidarity.

Beyond Reform: The Limits of the New Labor Bureaucracy

Rank and file reform caucuses are pushing the union bureaucracies into struggle, but building real working class power requires more than reform.