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20 November 2019
Chile revolt continues: read eyewitness report
Mass social protests against inequality, injustice and state repression, continue to erupt in Chile weeks after an uprising was sparked by a hike in Metro fares in Santiago
6 November 2019
End repression in Chile - freedom for soldier David Veloso
The following statement was issued on 4 November by members of Socialismo Revolucionario, CWI in Chile, and the Committee against repression in Chile
30 October 2019
A human sea of Chilean workers, youth, students and others flooded onto the streets of central Santiago on 25 October. It was the largest demonstration in Chilean history.
23 October 2019
Chile: An outpouring of rage against the capitalist system
Thousands took to the streets against government repression in the face of the social explosion which has rocked the country
11 September 2019
Socialism 2019: the Saturday rally, 2nd November 2019. Reports of the event will be posted soon.
30 January 2019
Venezuela: resist the pro-imperialist coup!
The social, political and economic crisis which is currently rocking Venezuela poses crucial questions and lessons for socialists and the international working class.
7 November 2018
Nae Pasaran: a film about working-class solidarity
This is an inspiring film and I don't doubt that if you see it you will shed a tear. It is a story of international solidarity of the working class and the power of those acts of solidarity having a ripple effect.
13 December 2017
110 years ago: massacre at Santa Maria school in Chile - commemorate 21 December 1907
This year marks the centenary of the Russian revolution when the working class took power in October. It is also the 110-year anniversary of a historical and bloody struggle of workers that is less well-known.
4 October 2017
Che Guevara 50 years on - revolutionary socialist and fighter
Many people identify with the legacy left by Che as a symbol of struggle, defiance, internationalism and a socialist world.
8 March 2017
Thirty years ago, 193 passengers and crew drowned off the coast of Belgium after P&O's Herald of Free Enterprise car ferry capsized. One of the dead was seafarer and Militant (forerunner of the Socialist) supporter Geoff Haney.
31 August 2016
Chile: general strike threat as pensions protests grow
Sunday 21 August was another enormous day of protest marches in opposition to the AFP (the compulsory private pension system). Over 400,000 marched in the capital, Santiago, with up to two million in total demonstrating around the country. This represents a huge increase on the one million who participated in the historic 24 July protests.
13 January 2016
Victor Jara's revolutionary life, poetry and politics
Book review - Victor: An Unfinished Song: Before he died, in captivity, already injured, Victor Jara wrote a last poem, his unfinished song. When the workers of Chile and the world put an end to poverty, hunger and inequality, they will finish that song.
25 November 2015
Dictatorship's methods still reign in 'democratic' Chile
Police torture 15-year-old socialist: The legacy of that brutal dictatorship continues. While formally extinct, the "transition" to so-called democracy left intact the dictatorship's state machine - and even constitution!
8 July 2015
TV review: Picasso - Portillo's peculiar perspective
Ian Pattison reviews Portillo on Picasso, an episode from the ITV series Perspectives.
3 June 2015
Chile: 200,000 protest in Santiago
The revolt of students and young people demanding free education in Chile is continuing, with an estimated 200,000 marching on the latest demonstration in Santiago
27 May 2015
A new chapter in Chile's political crisis
Chile: mass demonstrations: Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of major Chilean cities this month. Demonstrators - mostly youth, but also workers and older people - insisted the government meet students' demands for free
30 April 2015
125 years of May Day: Learn lessons of past struggles
This year marks the 125th International Workers' Day, or 'May Day'. The original call for workers' demonstrations around the world on 1 May was made in July 1889 at the International Socialist Workers Congress in Paris
11 September 2013
The bloody coup against the Popular Unity government - lessons for workers' struggles today: In Chile on 11 September 1973 a bloody coup, led by general Pinochet and backed by the US administration, overthrew Allende's government
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