The U.S. left has much to learn from the successes and failures of Chile's 2019 uprisings.
Demonstrators wave Chilean and Indigenous flags at Plaza Italia during a protest against President Sebastian Piñera on November 27, 2019, in Santiago, Chile.Twenty years of grassroots organizing by Black and Latinx community organizations, the Chicago Teachers Union , and the broad Left propelled CTU organizer Brandon Johnson to victory in the April 2023 Chicago mayoral race.
The questions that sent us back to Chile were: What can we learn from Chile’s intense experiences—though different from ours—to inform our movements here? What can we learn about transforming popular uprisings into a force towards developing real power? How does the Left use governing power when it does not control capital and confronts a powerful Right and inherited crises and ideologies of neoliberal racial capitalism? For us, these are key challenges in the US.
Strategically, these lessons and relationships are gains for the Left. They further develop the basis and create conditions to align social movements and organize around a strategy and program. But as some activists told us, summing up dialectically is key.estimated its power in relation to popular movements. For us, this points to the Left using governing power differently from traditional politicians.
For us, this is a sharp example of the importance of political clarity on challenging patriarchy, racism, and settler colonialism as class issues and fundamental to forge a political project for the vast majority. “We need to go together” a feministChile’s twists and turns exemplify the political volatility of the present conjuncture. The demand for “a dignified life” was objectively revolutionary—unable to be met by Chile’s existing order.
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