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Chile: 50 years on, Popular Unity victory still a lesson for the struggles ahead

By Guillermo Teillier del Valle, President of the Communist Party of Chile It was 1952 and Salvador Allende was facing his first presidential campaign with few resources. He had the support of the Socialist Party, many of whose militants [...]

Song: a weapon of the revolution

Normand Raymond A social explosion is shaking Chile – an unceasing wave of massive demonstrations which began October 18, demanding better living conditions and aiming to replace General Pinochet’s fascist 1980 constitution through a people’s [...]

Music Notes: Chilean anthem calls out femicide

A flash mob performance piece written by a feminist collective in the Chilean city of Valparaíso has been taken up by women worldwide as a battle cry for justice. “Un violador en tu camino” (“A rapist in your path”) is an important part of the [...]

Music Notes: Nueva Cancion still nurturing the progressive struggle

Allende era's music inspires Chileans The struggle that culminated in the election of Salvador Allende's socialist Popular Unity government in Chile in 1970 was nurtured by a profound musical revolution. While Latin America's Nueva Canción (“New [...]

Vancouver Labour Council mobilizes solidarity with Chilean people

Actions include call for CLC to implement boycott Beginning October 18, Chile has been rocked by massive protests, strikes and mobilizations against the neoliberal austerity imposed by the right-wing government of Sebastian Piñera. In response to [...]

Music Notes June 2017

Nunca Mas Mujer, Packingtown at Hogtown Mayworks, protesting TSO Israel Tour, and Summer Folk Festivals.