JohnJun 30, 2025

Neoliberals aimed to “make Chile a country of owners and not of proletarians,” in the words of dictator #AugustoPinochet. Rates of #unionization among Chilean women surpassed those among men.

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Women are Renewing Chile’s Labor Movement

Antonia López* takes public transportation to pick up her six-year-old son, Camilo, from school in a suburb of Santiago. At 6 p.m. on a Friday, her bus is full of workers who are trying to get home as quickly as possible. Camilo hugs his mother when she gets to the school gate. He gives her...

Asian Labour Review
Show threadMark BurtonSep 12, 2023
So when you hear about children going hungry in the UK, the pouring of sewage into rivers and beaches, school, hospital and other public buildings collapsing due to lack of government spending, a collapsing NHS...
Remember the milestone of the US fomented coup in #Chile50, the #ChicagoBoys, Thatcher's admiration of Pinochet and Blair's admiration of Thatcher.
And then imagine if #Allende's #PopularUnity government had prevailed and we'd had the alternative model of how to run an economy.