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Chile on strike: worker anger spills over
El Siglo’s Ursula Fuentes Rivera speaks to ERIC CAMPOS, the CUT (Chile’s TUC) general secretary, on the eve of the general strike
Workers of the Chilean Huachipato steel company hold portraits of Chilean President Gabriel Boric, center, Finance Minister Mario Marcel, left, and Economy Minister Nicolas Grau outside La Moneda presidential palace to protest the steel company's upcoming closure, in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, April 9, 2024
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
UF: What are the reasons for the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT) national strike today?
EC: The diagnosis that emerged at the congress of the CUT, held in January, is that in Chile there is a political alliance between a right wing and a business sector that does not allow the reforms that Chile needs to move forward and a government that, in the face of this blackmail, gives in, because it has been, in political terms, far more centrist or even right wing than anybody expected.
During our congress, we elaborated a strategy designed to break this political stalemate and the “national active strike” today is part of this mould-breaking in which the CUT has an important role to play.
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