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5 October 2011
Chilean students in fifth month of protests
The last five months have witnessed the biggest social movement in Chile since the fall of former dictator General Pinochet, writes Iain Dalton, Youth Fight for Jobs Yorkshire organiser.
10 March 2010
Chile earthquake: Natural disaster, state catastrophe
ON 27 February a powerful earthquake and the tsunami which followed, devastated the Chilean city of Concepcion and the surrounding area...
13 January 2010
Chile - Freedom for Elena Varela
THE WELL known left-wing Chilean documentary maker and journalist, Elena Varela, has been accused of "terrorism" by the Chilean authorities and risks 15 years in prison having stood up for the rights of indigenous Mapuche people...
15 December 2006
Good riddance to the 'butcher of Chile'
ON SUNDAY 10 December the biggest killer and robber Chile has ever seen, ex dictator Augusto Pinochet, died. Hundreds of thousands of Chileans went out onto the streets to celebrate.
26 October 2006
Chilean students fight Pinochet's legacy
ON 18 October, around 2,000 angry Chilean school students took to the streets in Santiago and around the country... By Ben Robinson
12 October 2006
More than 600,000 school students and students have been involved in a protest movement. Led by secondary school students (the "penguins" as they have become known for their school uniforms) they occupied more than...
6 July 2006
Chile: Who killed Victor Jara?
Scandal of state compensation paid to mass murderer: AMONGST THE first to be slaughtered by the military dictatorship which seized power in Chile in September 1973 was the very popular folk singer and Communist Party member, Victor Jara, writes Tony Saunois, CWI, Santiago.
8 June 2006
Chile: Youth take to the streets demanding action
A WEEK-long mass movement of secondary school students in Chile, demanding education reforms, culminated in a one million strong strike last Monday...
26 January 2006
Chile: First woman president elected
THE ELECTION of Michel Bachelet as the first woman to be elected President of Chile has aroused big interest around the world...
16 October 2004
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IN THE second of our articles celebrating 40 years of the Militant newspaper (now the socialist), Roger Shrives looks at how we reported and commented on the tumultuous events of Salvador Allende's government in Chile from 1970 until the vicious coup by the reactionary general Pinochet in 1973...
12 June 2004
Chile's Workers Battle Against Neo-Liberalism
THE CHILEAN capitalists claim that unlike the other Latin American countries they have managed a successful economy...
13 September 2003
30 years after the 11 September military coup: The Lessons Of Chile
ON 11 September 1973 the left wing Popular Unity government of Chile was overthrown by general Augusto Pinochet in a bloody military coup in which president Salvador Allende and thousands of Chilean workers were killed...
23 August 2003
THE FIRST general strike in Chile for 17 years took place on 13 August. Called by the Central Workers' Union (CUT), the main trade union federation, the strike was for better benefits and working conditions...
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