Nae Pasaran tells the tale of a time when a group of Glaswegians defied Pinochet
On only one occasion did I feel moved to apply a censor’s red pen through a line of copy by another writer for political reasons. It happened around 20 years ago when I held an executive position at a national (...)
Demonstrators suspect anti-abortion activists after three women attacked by masked assailants
Human rights activists in Chile have expressed shock and concern after masked attackers stabbed three women at a protest in favour of free and legal abortion.
One of the women was wounded in the (...)
Chile’s Mapuche people are resorting to increasingly extreme tactics to reclaim their ancestral land from exploitive industries
It is late autumn in southern Chile, and in the region of Araucanía, the leaves have turned copper and gold. But on the road to the mist-shrouded town of Lumaco, the (...)
Power Resources in the Workers’ Union at Starbucks Chile
A Case Study by Felipe Labra
Over the course of the last decade, Chile—a country with high levels of youth unemployment and precarious work—has witnessed the birth of a new trade union within Starbucks, a company whose founding principles (...)
Sergio Grez, professor of history at the University of Chile (Santiago) and Franck Gaudichaud, lecturer in Latin American Civilization at the University of Grenoble (and currently visiting researcher at the University of Chile), were interviewed on the political and social situation in Chile (...)
Last year Socialist Michelle Bachelet reclaimed the presidency after four years of center-right rule and restored power to the Concertación coalition that had governed Chile since redemocratization. For progressives, and even some radicals, this election opens a period of heretofore elusive (...)
Interview with Sebastián Farfán Salinas, a former member of the executive of Confech, the Confederation of Chilean Students, and Carla Amtmann Fecci, former president of the student federation at the Catholic University of Valparaiso. Both participated in the presidential campaign of the “Todos a (...)
Interview with Roxana Miranda, presidential candidate at the 2013 elections and president of the Igualdad party, and Christian Cepeda, an activist in the party. The interview was conducted by Franck Gaudichaud. Franck Gaudichaud – Can you say a few words on the Igualdad (Equality) party and its (...)
The French political scientist Franck Gaudichaud is in Chile in his research semester for University of Grenoble 3, in which he is professor of Latin American studies. A Doctorate in political science, he is a contributor to the prestigious electronic daily, Rebelion.org. Gaudichaud, with links (...)
Interview with Marco Alvarez, an activist with Libres del Sur. The interview was conducted by Franck Gaudichaud. Franck Gaudichaud – Can you tell us something about Libres del Sur and its history?
Marco Alvarez – Libres del Sur is a revolutionary organisation which appeared publicly in the first (...)
Sunday, December 15, Santiago de Chile, at three o’clock in the afternoon. The sun is at its zenith, the sky looks clear and temporarily free from the halo of pollution that clings every day to the slopes of the Andes which overlook the city. The heat of the southern summer is already here, (...)
An interview with Chilean Marxist economist Rafael Agacino. Interview conducted by Franck Gaudichaud. Franck Gaudichaud – How would you characterise Bachelet’s economic programme, its main axes and her relations with the employers?
Rafael Agacino – So far as content is concerned, the centre of (...)
This article is the introduction to a series of articles covering different aspects of the situation in Chile today. The other articles and interviews will be published as they become available.
International Viewpoint For months, the business seemed settled : Michèle Bachelet would be the next (...)
The repression perpetrated by Sebastian Piñera’s administration in Chile against several Mapuche communities in the region of Araucania has resulted in multiple solidarity actions and expressions at international level. One of them is the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations, CLOC – (...)
SANTIAGO, Jan 8 2013 (IPS) - A string of attacks in the southern Chilean region of Araucanía, where native Mapuche people are struggling for their land rights, puts the spotlight squarely on what analysts call the “supine ignorance” displayed by authorities about the country’s history.
Two persons (...)
CHILEANS WENT TO the polls on October 28, 2012 to elect mayors and city councils from Arica, bordering Peru in the North, to Punta Arenas in southern Tierra del Fuego. Considering the student movement that unleashed what seemed like unstoppable waves of mass militancy over the past year and a (...)
An interview with Marco Alvarez Vergara, an activist in Chile’s “Libres del Sur” movement , conducted by Franck Gaudichaud of France’s Nouveau Parti Anti-capitaliste. Franck Gaudichaud – First of all we would like you to present the current situation of social struggles in Chile. Latin America has (...)
Two boys sit on the second floor balcony of their occupied public high school, José Victorino Lastarria in Santiago, Chile. They peer down through the railing, dangling a cup on a string two meters below to request donations from pedestrians. A few strides away, their classmates hold signs that (...)
THE PINGÜINOS CAME back, and their march turned into an all out anti-neoliberal stampede.
The powerful movement of Chilean students (nicknamed “the penguins” after their dark-blue and white uniforms), which first rocked the presidency of Socialist Michelle Bachelet in 2006, returned with a (...)
This interview for the Swiss fortnightly SolidaritéS was conducted on October 13 by Jean Batou and Juan Tortosa . Sebastian Farfán Salinas, 23 years old, is president of the Student Federation at the University of Valparaiso and a member of the national executive of the student movement. He (...)
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