In September 1970, Salvador Allende was elected President of Chile, initiating the so-called “Chilean road to socialism.” Three years later, Augusto Pinochet launched a military coup against Allende and made himself Chile’s bloody capitalist dictator.
Monday, September 11, marks the 50th anniversary of the 1973 coup that overthrew president Salvador Allende in Chile and installed the brutal Pinochet dictatorship.
The most committed Chilean workers are beginning to awaken from the democratic illusions fostered by the ruling class, and in the heat of this frustrated experience, they will return to their fighting spirit.
In this transcript of a lead off from the recent Latin American IMT school, Jorge Martin analyzes the explosive situation in Latin America, where the masses are erupting in response to the pandemic and the capitalist crisis.
The results of the elections to the Constituent Convention in Chile over the weekend represent a political earthquake, showing a strong rejection of all established parties. This is a political expression (albeit distorted) of the 2019 insurrection.
Los resultados de las elecciones a la Convención Constituyente en Chile representan un terremoto político, con un fuerte rechazo de todos los partidos establecidos. Puede entenderse como una expresión política (distorsionada) de la insurrección de 2019.