THE LESSONS OF CHILE - YouTube A WIN meeting, October 2023. It is half a century since the military coup in Chile – a landmark defeat which shocked the labour movement worldwide. A popular socialist government was overthrown; a democratically elected president murdered; tens of thousands of workers and left activists rounded up, incarcerated, tortured, summarily executed. The new dictatorship … [Read more...]
Counter Revolution in Chile
By Roger Silverman Image - Library of the Chilean National Congress - Attribution 3.0 Chile (CC BY 3.0 CL) Fifty years ago this month, on September 11, 1973, a military coup took place in Chile, putting a committee (‘junta’) of generals in power, led by General Pinochet. The coup resulted in the bombing of the presidential palace and the subsequent murder of the president, Salvador … [Read more...]