Infoshop: Youth and student uprisings across Chile

Greetings international comrades. This past March 29th marked the anniversary when militant youth of the Leftist Revolutionary Movement (MIR), Eduardo and Rafael Vergara, were assassinated by police during the Pinochet dictatorship in 1985. The date is known as the Day of the Youth Combatant. The day marks the memory of not only youth combatants of the former military dictatorship, but also the combatants of today. We awoke after protests and militant street battles from this past March 29th to find the city in an odd state of tranquility. The capitalist press claims that Thursday’s conflicts are already over, but we believe that the discontent is everywhere. From militant youth and survivors of the dictatorship, to students and debtors, we are everywhere. The Chilean government recently further privatized the transportation system in a plan known as Transantiago. Working class areas of the city are not left with insufficient numbers of buses, and even worse, many areas do not even have access to buses.

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