The International Marxist Tendency has warned from day one that the government of Gabriel Boric has been marching to the drumbeat of the right. As early as the second round of the presidential elections in 2021, we denounced his populist use of immigration and public security issues in the campaign. With this repressive agenda, he aims to win the support of moderate or depoliticised layers of society and draw them away from the right. Ultimately, this merely adds grist to the mill of the far right. Last mon
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FILE PHOTO: A demonstrator prepares to throw a molotov bomb toward riot police vehicles during a protest commemorating "El dia del joven combatiente" (Day of the Young Combatant) in Santiago, Chile Ma
Santiago, Mar 29 (EFE).- Chilean police arrested 36 people Wednesday during protests on the Day of the Young Combatant, which commemorates the 1985 murder of two militants by agents of the Pinochet dictatorship. The largest demonstration took place here in the capital, where a crowd comprising mainly high school students marched down La Alameda, the …
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Statue covered in paint and flags during a protest at Santiagio’s Plaza Italia square. Santiago, Chile – December 6, 2019. Roberto Baeza / Shutterstock.com
Over the past year and a half, Chile has been making global headlines. Beginning in October, 2019, a wave of historic insurrections swept the country. Kicked off by high school students protesting against a transportation fare hike in Santiago, the cycle of struggle reached a new milestone one year later with an overwhelming vote to replace the old, Pinochet-era constitution.
The significance of this revolt stretches far beyond the confines of Chile itself. The country was, in many ways, a laboratory of neoliberalism. Introduced following Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 coup, many of the mechanisms of privatization and inequality which citizens across the world live with on a daily basis had their start in the country, transforming it into a key Latin American ally of the United States. Today’s rebellion against that