Chilean coup of 1973

Strange Defeat: The Chilean Revolution, 1973 - Pointblank!

An article by Situationist group Pointblank! written in October 1973 about the coup in Chile which deposed elected left-wing leader Salvador Allende.

Instead of blaming the right and the CIA for the coup like most commentators on the left, Pointblank! point out the role that Allende and the parties of the left played in demobilising the powerful working class, undermining their strength and eventually signing their own death warrants by refusing to arm them

Chile: Anatomy of an economic miracle, 1970-1986

Human cost: Political prisoner executed after the coup and left in the street, 1973

Article debunking myths about Chilean dictator General Pinochet's supposed "economic miracle."

From Black Flag 216, published in 1999.

Anatomy of an Economic Miracle

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