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May 09, 2025

Chile

The main struggles of the labor movement in Chile in 2024

By Movimiento Internacional de los TrabajadoresIn 2024, important struggles of the working class and the people took place in Chile and around the world. We want to review the...

The State, the Chilean Communist Party, and their cooperation

Usually the political currents of reformist parties affirm that it is fundamental to win...

Why doesn’t Chile change? Big business and state control

By Otávio Calegari A few weeks ago, Codelco (National Copper Corporation of Chile) signed an...

Fires in the Valparaíso Region in Chile: A Predictable and Avoidable Tragedy

Anger, pain, fear, numbness, once again the flames are out of control, threatening our...

Chile: Another Failed Constitutional Process, What Now?

With more than ten points of difference, "Against” has  defeated "For" in the new...

Chile | Clarifying the most recent Constitutional Convention vote on copper and mining

The plenary of the Constitutional Convention on Friday 5/07/22 voted on a series of norms related to copper mining and other minerals. Since that...

Interview with Edward Gallardo, mining leader: "It is essential that we organize, within the working class, to nationalize mining industries."

Edward Gallardo Basay (Edu) is a mine worker, subcontracted at the Chuquicamata mines, president of the National Intercompany Mining Union (SIM). He is also...

Interview with María Rivera: "It is not just the nationalization of minerals, but the nationalization of the large mining companies of copper, lithium, gold...

María Rivera, constituent assembly representative of D8 and leader of the Internationalist Workers Movement (MIT), is one of the constituents, alongside Ivanna Olivares, sponsoring...

Chilean Constitutional Convention: Popular Demands May Be Defeated by the 2/3rds Rule

The Chilean Constitutional Convention has been working at full speed. We are months away from the deadline for the constituents to draft a New...

Chile | María Rivera: a spokesperson for the Chilean revolution at the Constituent Convention

On February 9, one of the norms submitted to the Political System Commission of the Chilean Constituent Convention caused such an outrage and unleashed...

Chile | We Defeated Kast at the Ballot Box! What Should We Expect from Boric’s Government?

December 23, 2021 Many workers, youth, and fighters are breathing a sigh of relief at the results of the second round of voting in Chile....

Chile | Defeat Kast in the Streets and at the Ballot Box! Zero Trust in Boric!

Authored by MIT, the Chilean section of the IWL-FI Translated by: Dolores Underwood The electoral results last Sunday were a surprise within Chile and across the...

Chile | The New Constitution Must Recognize Chileans’ Rights to Copper, Lithium, and Water

Let’s mobilize around this campaign! The social mobilizations that began on October 18th, 2019, demonstrated Chilean peoples’ anger with the lack of social rights, the...

Chile | Two Years After October 18: Lessons and Perspectives

October 19, 2021 Two years ago, millions of us took the streets to say “enough.” Young people took the lead with students hopping the subway...

Chile| The Crisis of the List of the People and MIT’s Exit

August 18, 2021 by the Executive Committee of the MIT and constitutional constituent María Rivera, translated to English by Rita Brown Last week we were surprised...

Chile | In Defense of the Manifesto: For the sovereignty of the Constitutional Convention!

As the Constitutional Convention begins early in July, we all need to pay attention to those who support and decline to support the manifesto,...

Chile | A political earthquake: Victory for the working class and youth, María Rivera to the Constituent Assembly!

May 17, 2021 The counting of today's electoral results has not yet finished . However, everything indicates that there has been a real political earthquake...

Chile | María Rivera, an Independent and Revolutionary Constituent Assembly Candidate

Statement by the International Workers' Movement (MIT) Chile, translated to English by Tara Although more than a year has passed since the start of the...

Chile | The Pandemic is Killing Detainees: Free Political Prisoners and Expand Sanitation Regulations to Jails Now!

To counter the open revolution that has broken out in Chile over the past year, President Sebastián Piñera, like many other politicians in that...