Chile a 50 years of the military coup: of the resistance to the anti-capitalist and socialist proposal to transform everything
In this section, We propose to compile a series of historical documents, articles from our organization and various contributions. This space is presented as a terrain of confrontation in the battle for historical memory in a red key and contributing to the construction of a political alternative to take the sky by storm., We invite you to become part. A 50 years of the military coup: of the resistance to the anti-capitalist and socialist proposal to transform everything. At the end of these lines, you can find the corresponding links.
The next 11 of September are commemorated 50 years of the civic-military coup orchestrated by imperialism and the Chilean bourgeoisie, who established a regime of terror at the hands of the dictator Pinochet. Son 50 years of that dark chapter in the history of our country, which involved a true counterrevolution to establish the laboratory of capital in Chile and implement an extreme liberalization of the economy for the benefit of the capitalists.. This action was only possible through the use of force, torture, political sexual violence, the exile and extermination of thousands of people. have passed 50 years and the pillars of Pinochetism remain intact, due to the transitional pacts and the “30 years” governments, who have perfected neoliberalism and maintained impunity.
The consequences of the coup are still present due to the will of the political and economic caste that remains entrenched in power. further, The veil of silence of impunity also pursues a greater purpose: prevent the red thread of history from resurfacing. In Chile, We live one of the most significant experiences of the labor movement of the 20th century, during which years of history were accumulated that promoted the emergence of large worker demonstrations, Popular, peasant, organizations and instances of self-organization and worker management such as the Industrial Cordons that emerged in the midst of the revolutionary confrontation before the coup. The Industrial Cordons represented the possibility of radical change at a social level and questioned capitalist stability due to their nature as incipient dual powers..
Those years of struggle were fundamental for the development of demonstrations and organizational structures that challenged the bourgeoisie and demonstrated the potential for profound transformations in society., This was demonstrated by the youth who explored new cultural and artistic fields in the heat of the latent changes that did not recognize borders in a Latin America tinged with uprisings..
These experiences, enter so many, of the decades of 60 Y 70 were the historical context that promoted the arrival of Salvador Allende to power. Nevertheless, The project of Allende and the UP itself acted as a brake on the transformative force of the revolutionary working class.. The utopia of the "peaceful path to socialism" became a dead end when trust was placed in institutions such as Congress and the Armed Forces., who finally staged the coup and who constantly, from the government, it was called to respect bourgeois institutionality.
Industrial Cords, In a letter addressed to President Allende, 5 September 1973, exemplify this situation: "Before, We were afraid that the process towards Socialism was being compromised to reach a center Government, reformist, bourgeois-democratic that tended to demobilize the masses or lead them to insurrectional actions of an anarchic type out of an instinct for self-preservation. but now, analyzing the latest events, our fear is no longer that, “Now we are certain that we are on a slope that will inevitably lead us to fascism.”.
This letter reflects the reality of the situation days before the coup and the need to redirect the course and trust in the forces of the working class to stop the imminent coup d'état, Furthermore, it is a clear manifestation of the limits of the reformist leaderships that acted to the detriment of the revolutionary process., that is to say, the contradiction was expressed between the depth of the process and the limits of reformism, which tragically allowed the articulation of the military coup with the failure of the peaceful path of the Popular Unity.
In the year 2023, when they are fulfilled 50 years of the coup and have passed 4 years since the rebellion that questioned the fundamental pillars of the model inherited from the dictatorship, It is more necessary than ever to carry out an in-depth analysis, promote debate and organization. We must learn the historical lessons of the Chilean revolutionary process and understand the reasons behind the defeat of the Popular Unity (UP). It is also essential to recognize that the image of the years of dictatorship is still present in the current institutions and in the impunity that persists in cases of human rights violations both past and present., a true regime supervised by the pacos, as demonstrated by the systematic violations of human rights during the 2019 and the political prison that remains, while the repressive agents add laws that allow them impunity with the current government of Gabriel Boric.
It is for this reason that we inaugurate this section, titled «A 50 years of the military coup: "of the resistance to the socialist and anti-capitalist proposal to transform everything". We know that from below and to the left, we can reconstitute the red thread that the dictatorship and that the transitional governments tried to erase. We can recover the best of the working class tradition of the seventies and the popular struggles against the dictatorship, and put it at the service of a new generation that questions everything. Howanticapitalist movement and our international organization, theInternational Socialist League (LIS), we are committed to this task, facing the challenges of the present in a context of capitalist crisis that they try to unload on the working class and that increasingly affects the living conditions of the majority worldwide, the limits of the planet are endangered, leading us towards a catastrophe produced by the irrationality of capital accumulation, In addition, they increasingly entrench our already restricted democracy with more repression and the sexual and reproductive rights of women and dissidents are attacked.. We are witnessing a time of crisis of capitalism that announces more war and rebellions, we must prepare.
In the meantime, The government of the Frente Amplio and the Communist Party update the steps of the old Concertación not only governing in the same way, also managing with the same people as always and taking advantage of the State in millionaire thefts. This policy is the quickest route to the extreme right, opening the doors to the worst of the nostalgic right of Pinochetism by making an agreement with them and governing under the program of conservatism with a progressive mantle to add more extractivism, neoliberalism, repression and adjustment.
In this section, our goal is to gather a variety of historical documents, articles produced by our organization and various contributions. This space is configured as a stage for debate in the fight to preserve historical memory from a red-key perspective., at the same time that we contribute to the construction of an anti-capitalist political alternative, socialist and internationalist. We extend an invitation to you to join and be part of this process.
- A 50 years of the military coup: past and present in the fight against Pinochetism (Camilo Parada, 2023).
- Interview with Tomás Pizarro Meniconi, President Cordón Industrial Recoleta in 1973(Program of the Anticapitalist Movement #ConTodoSinoPaQue! Edition nº1, 2020).
- Workers' control and the experience of industrial cordons (Chapter report 13 of the Anticapitalist Movement program #ConTodoSinoPaQue!, Anticapitalist Stop section, 2020).
- Interview with Armando Cruces, President Cordón Industrial Vicuña Mackenna (Socialist Advance, August 1973).
- The end of the peaceful route (America Magazine, 1973).
- «Who were responsible for the coup?» (Luis Vitale, 1999).
- And after the 4, that? Chile's prospects after the presidential elections (Luis Vitale,1970).
- 50 Years of Allende's triumph (Emilio Poly, 2020).
- A 38 years of the Degollados Case. Tribute from Camilo Parada (Tribute act, 2023)
- Young Fighter's Day: his memory and ours (Camilo Parada, 2023).
- 5 October 1988 anniversary of the victory of the NO (International Mail, year V No. 37 November 1988).
- 45 years of the Military Coupr (Joaquín Araneda, 2019).
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March-April 1973 (before Pinochet's coup)
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America Magazine 11
October-November 1973 (after Pinochet's coup)
