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Women perform during a march marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, November 25, 2021
THOUSANDS of women marched in the Chilean capital Santiago on Thursday night in protest against the threat posed to their rights by far-right presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast.
“Today, I am very eager to come because of what happened in Chile — just on Sunday a fascist won who wants to violate all our rights and what we have achieved,” protester Maria Jesus said.
She was one of many women and girls who gathered in Plaza Italia in the city centre to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Communist Party presidential candidate JEANNETTE JARA challenges the Chilean left to stop talking only among comrades and reach out to angry voters abandoned by politics in the race against the far right this November
For the first time in years, the dominant voice within Chile’s official left comes not from neoliberal centrists but from the world of labour, writes LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI