The inaugural Latin American Festival in Avalon, Sydney.
Bolivia
Today we are witnessing the realisation of Túpac Katari’s prophecy: ‘I will come ba
Álvaro García Linera at the congress of the European left in Madrid on December 14, 2013.
Mike Treen on the picket line.
Bolivia: Workers to take over closed or abandoned firms; The working class and the political process
By Richard Fidler, La Paz, Bolivia
For more on Chile click HERE.
By Roger Burbach
September 11, 2013 -- Futuresocialism.org -- The coup d’etat by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile on September 11, 1973, transformed the history of socialism. Almost a thousand days before, Salvador Allende and the Popular Unity coalition had taken office promising a “Chilean Road to Socialism” based on democratic principles. The government launched an agrarian reform program, recognised the right of workers to take over factories and run them collectively, took control of most of the country’s banks and expropriated multinational corporations like Kennecott and ITT, all within the framework of the Chilean constitution.
