Chile: hot March
He 18 March five months meet Revolution burst marking the end of a stage. The debate on the constituent process gains strength and the force in the street does not stop.
He 18 March will mark five months since the outbreak revolution that marked the end of a stage. While the debate on the constituent process gains strength, the dispute in the street does not stop. the government threatens to intensify repression, but still losing support. The challenge of building a revolutionary alternative is more current than ever.
The Viña del Mar festival, internationally famous, In February it was transformed into a showcase of the profound changes that have occurred in recent months. Not only for the enormous performances by the artists who exhibited from the stage human rights violations, They questioned the government harshly terms and massively disseminated some of the demands that millions of us have put in the streets. But also, the streets of Viña and Valparaíso were scene of clashes and massive mobilizations, with thousands of residents descending from the hills to the very doors of Quinta Vergara. It is It is true that the massiveness of the first days of the revolution is not what was demonstrate today in the streets, but it is no less true that there is a state of deep political deliberation throughout the national geography. There is a important vanguard of the masses that continues to be mobilized and that has the majority support of the population, despite the campaigns increasingly government disenfranchisement, the right and its partners on the “center left” who They talk about violentists and criminals to refer to a youth that lost fear and is willing to do anything to conquer their demands. But Vina it was just a sample, just as it was palpable in the environment, March started with a rise in mobilizations and demands. “Super Monday” was crossed by feminist activities, saucepans, barricades and confrontations with the pacos throughout Santiago and in different cities of the country, making it clear that the intention to institutionalize the enormous process of mobilization fails materialize and instability is latent. Saved by the Covenant, questioned by the mobilization
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Saved by the pact questioned by the mobilization
Sebastián Piñera is the President with the worst image in the history of the continent and the one with the highest levels rejection highs in all history. It is only explained that he continues to lead of the Executive for the support that the entire political regime has given it through the “Pact for Peace and the New Constitution” signed by the group of forces with parliamentary representation (with some exceptions) starting with the Frente Amplio that transformed, since that day in the main beam of the government in exchange for a rigged constituent process of results uncertain. On the side of the streets, the PC in command of the Unity table Social dismantled the process of calling for general strikes that had motorized, very much against his will, the first days of the outbreak and that had allowed, on the one hand, end the State of Exception and, for him another, force the government to accept a “social agenda” although insufficient. With this support, the government tries to resume the offensive and threatens with new repressive measures to “guarantee public order”, and to the right of Piñera himself, sectors that managed to bring together their forces behind the position of “Rejection” to constitutional change and are betting on tone up at the polls and also in the streets, even starting to appear with armed groups protected by police. This is the real one result of the pact, on the one hand, dismantle the forces of the working class and the town, and on the other, give him an escape route and regroup on the right that was against the ropes. These “democrats” of the possible do not seem to having learned nothing from the failed experience of the '70s, there are no dialogues or pacts with the right that end well for the people.
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Develop mobilization, fight for unity, build revolutionary organization
Since the anti-capitalist movement, Chilean section of the International Socialist League, We have been developing an important political agitation holding the program of the revolution high and strongly denouncing the Pact. We met and began to promote with other leftist organizations the creation of a unitary command for a true Free Constituent Assembly, Democratic, Soberana and Plurinacinoal that also strongly point out the claim that Piñera has to leave once and for all. We actively participate in mobilizations and unitary actions and take concrete steps in the organization of a force that is capable of transforming into a revolutionary alternative., anticapitalist, feminist and ecosocialista, taking an organic and political leap. for that task, the next 8 of March, within the framework of the enormous feminist mobilizations that will cross our country and the world, we will take our newspaper to the streets for the first time, which represents a considerable advance in our development and is added to our website and different social networks not only as a way to spread our ideas., but also as a tool of political organization that we aim to reach thousands. In its pages we will insist on the need to redouble the mobilization, starting with him 8 Y 9 March where the feminist movement will once again put all its forces into the streets and the need to organize a new and powerful general strike to end the repressive threats and Piñera's own murderous government. We will develop all the elements of the joint campaign with the left and the combative sectors for a true Constituent Assembly, denouncing that, so as not to lose in the April plebiscite, The key is not to abandon the mobilization and advance in the revolutionary organization. We will vigorously resume the demand for the freedom of all political prisoners who number in the thousands., as well as the punishment of those responsible for human rights violations., the dissolution of the police and other basic and urgent democratic measures to end the repression. Finally, developing this program that emerged and is strengthened in the streets, We will advance with our proposal to fight for a true government of those who have never governed, the workers, the residents and the youth as the only guarantee so that all the demands that our people have placed in debate and for which they are mobilized can be carried to the end.. With this new tool and the revolutionary will to change everything, From the Anticapitalist Movement we propose to continue actively participating in the Chilean revolution. You are convinced that it is not only possible but necessary to end the Pinochet regime and move towards a socialist solution.
By Joaquín Araneda, anticapitalist movement
