Tribute to Ernesto Leal, a founder of the London migrant cleaners' movement
Tribute written by members of the Latin American Workers' Association (LAWAS) in 2009 after the death of Ernesto Leal (11 January 1938 - 22 October 2009), Chilean communist exile who eventually moved to London, working as a cleaner and founding LAWAS. In the same days of Leal's death, Unite the union purged LAWAS, leading cleaners to join the IWW and eventually founding IWGB and UVW, which continue to organise cleaners and other low-wage migrant workers in London's service sector. We republish it here from The Commune (now defunct) in light of the recent historic victories of migrant cleaners at LSE and SOAS.
The Chicago Boys in Chile: Economic Freedom's Awful Toll
An economic appraisal of the early years of the Junta in Chile and the failures of the Chicago School economists in charge of the nation.
Killers of IWW member Frank Teruggi sentenced in Chile
In February 2015, two former Chilean military intelligence officers were convicted of the murder of IWW member Teruggi and another American, Charles Horman. Teruggi and Horman were kidnapped, tortured and murdered during the military coup in Chile in 1973.
Empire's workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the rise of the new imperialism - Greg Grandin
The British and Roman empires are often invoked as precedents to the Bush administration’s aggressive foreign policy.
Strange defeat: The Chilean revolution, 1973 - Pointblank!
Submitted by Mike Harman on Jul 22 2007 22:11
An article by Situationist group Pointblank! written in October 1973 about the coup in Chile which deposed elected left-wing leader Salvador Allende.
Chile: Anatomy of an economic miracle, 1970-1986
Submitted by martinh on Oct 1 2006 15:46
Article debunking myths about Chilean dictator General Pinochet's supposed "economic miracle."
