Chile: approve and go for the Constituent Assembly that is necessary
ByJoaquin Araneda, anticapitalist movement
Mañana se llevará a cabo el plebiscito por una nueva constitución, una semana después de las multitudinarias manifestaciones a lo largo del país que conmemoraron el inicio de la rebelión. Aprobar y retomar el camino de octubre para ir por una verdadera Asamblea Constituyente.
Octubre como GPS
Se cumplió un año del 18 October, fecha inaugural del asalto a las calles del pueblo chileno que cuestionó la arquitectura del modelo, desmantelando el discurso de “oasis” que vociferaba Piñera como luz de estabilidad capitalista y, Besides, se derribaba la ideología del “no se puede”.
Las claves del proceso apuntan a un cambio brusco de nuestra historia, la consigna“no son 30 pesos, son 30 years”expressed the accumulation of contradictions of a model constituted in dictatorship and prolonged to date, thus identifying on the one hand the constitution as a central pillar of decadent neoliberal capitalism and the government as politically responsible for the repressive and precarious drift.. A new constitution and Piñera out summarized the demands of October as the driving force behind the desire for change.
That journey of self-organization, mobilization and confrontation against repressive forces germinated the ideas of a new institutionality far from the accumulation of a few, Popular creativity in territorial assemblies discussed what type of country should be built and programs were voted on to recover common goods.; for the right to health, free housing and education; throughout the agenda of the feminist movement; for the end of the AFPs and a social security system; for another democracy without political castes. A nice, The fight gave birth to a roadmap to reorganize everything without Piñera and for those of us who had never done so to participate., the working people.
Conventions tailored to the Pact
The calendar of the constitutional change was moved due to the quarantine to next Sunday 25 October, We are days away from this iconic date that will demonstrate once again what the people already voted for in the streets: We no longer want Pinochet's constitution.
Although this journey, with their defined dates, nation from thePact for peace and the new constitution, agreement that involved the Frente Amplio, the former Concertación and the Pinochetist right, while the Communist Party guaranteed the immobility of the CUT. Thus they closed ranks in response to the transformative perspectives of the streets and which had as its high point the 12 November with the general strike that left the government reeling, Three days later they sealed their purposes, he 15 of November.
On the one hand, They saved Piñera from falling and thus prevented the entire political regime from being weakened and, on the other hand,, They established the dams to contain the constitutional change. The law 21.200 that will regulate the process prevents touching international treaties, incorporates the 2/3 as a formula for resolving debates in the constituent assembly and, In addition, it will be governed by the current law on political parties., that is, they will be the same responsible for what30 years, while minors and self-organized bodies are left out.
These tricky measures will work for both the Mixed Convention (CM) as for the Constitutional Convention (CC), That is why it is not surprising that after the Approval / CC we can find the group of the former Concertación and crosses borders to the right, expression of its limits.
The Pact is more than a formality, since it works as a protection of governability and this has been demonstrated to this day, where the repressive and adjustment agenda involves the participation of all parties in the kitchen, including PC and FA, scheme that in the midst of the health crisis has been deepened and put to the test. An example of that is the employment protection law that the PC voted for., leaving thousands of families without remuneration in times of crisis and prior to the commemoration of the 18th everyone called to mobilize to avoid a new demonstration of social force that does not let go of the streets.
He 25 we approve, we mark AC – Piñera Out and we promote alternatives
Without a doubt, We are part of the millions who were in the streets for months against the legacy of the dictatorship, Thus, We will not hesitate and we will go to vote and we will approve, although we do not conform to the boundaries of the Pact, That is why on the second ballot we will mark AC – Fuera Piñera.
This formula is a synthesis of a journey that must continue to be expressed beyond the vote, We have already shaped the Command for a free and sovereign CA that brought together more than three hundred people in an open assembly to discuss these ideas a few days ago and we have recovered the country's squares against impunity. There are plenty of forces and we cannot delegate this transformative impulse to the usual parties, That is why we have an urgent task that cannot be limited to the 25 October. From now on, we invite you to promote an anti-capitalist alternative so that in decisive moments you do not agree and go for everything, our purpose as an Anticapitalist Movement and that we promote together the unity that is necessary for the radical left, social movements, feminists and the working class can be in the constituent and in turn, recover the streets with force so that once and for all we who have never governed can govern.
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