Chile

Chile’s Communists elect a new leader—Barbara Figueroa

September 26, 2023 By Combined Sources

Leader of Chile’s trade unions, ambassador to Argentina, and now she’s got a new job: General Secretary of the Communist Party.

‘The other September 11th’: Chilean Communist leader on lessons learned from 1973 coup

September 11, 2023 By Guillermo Teillier

50 years after the U.S.-backed coup, a leader of the Communist Party of Chile looks back on lessons learned.

Chile’s ‘1000 Days of Revolution’: A Marxist analysis of the Allende years

September 8, 2023 By Kenny Coyle

A new book features assessments made by Chilean Communists of the Allende years and the CIA-backed coup of Sept. 11, 1973.

Democratic future of Chile at risk, Communists warn

May 11, 2023 By Roger McKenzie

The right wing has seized control of the group writing a new constitution for the nation.

Half-a-century after Chile coup, an eyewitness to Pinochet’s brutality remembers

September 9, 2022 By Graham Holton

“My encounter with life under Pinochet aroused hatred for the regime and love for the country. Witnessing the UP, and what it stood for, made me become a Marxist.”