Chile
International Worker / Issue 03 Tuesday 2 Aug 2005
CHILEThe political situation and Podemos
T he binomial electoral system in Chile, which allows candidates with a minority of votes to be elected from a list, has established two majority blocks (Agreement for Democracy and Alliance for Chile) which administer the “model” politically, socially and economically, ironing out any creases and modifying it to make the capital dictatorship of labor more efficient. A “political consensus” has been developed due to the relative t… Read more
International Worker / Issue 03 Tuesday 2 Aug 2005
The politics of the Chilean Communist PartyT o any outside observer, the politics of the Chilean Communist Party seem to run against the grain of those followed by the other CP's in Latin America and around the world, since instead of forming fronts with the center-left it has formed a left front, the Juntos Podemos (Poder Democrático y Social) (Together We Can — Democratic and Social Power), which in the municipal elections of 2003 obtained 10% of the votes. This, which seems to be the excep… Read more