{"id":8941,"date":"2019-10-25T21:36:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavozlit.com\/?p=8941"},"modified":"2019-10-25T21:36:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:36:18","slug":"chile-general-strike-until-pinera-falls-military-out-of-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2019\/10\/25\/chile-general-strike-until-pinera-falls-military-out-of-the-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"[Chile] General Strike until Pi\u00f1era Falls! Military Out of the Streets!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The popular uprising that crosses the country is defying the order that has been keeping us in misery for decades. Because the abuse of the bosses\u2019 class and all governments that protect it is extreme. Because the complicity with the bosses by political parties in the Parliament and the manipulation of the media are shameless \u2013 and more than that, violent.<\/em>
\nBy International Workers\u2019 Movement \u2013 MIT \u2013 Chile<\/strong> (www.vozdelostrabajadores.cl<\/a>)
\nThe violence of suspensions, low wages and miserable pensions; the dismantling of public health and education; the sacrifice zones; the persecution to the Mapuche people and murder of activists; the repression; the pillaging of natural resources and robbery of public funds by the high commands of the Armed Forces and the Carabineros<\/em>. Such is the systematic, daily-based, naturalized violence that caused the firing of the Metro, supermarkets and pharmacies, which represent the order and consumption.
\nThe true sackers of the country have name and surname: Matte, Err\u00e1zuriz, Larra\u00edn Vial, Saieh, Pi\u00f1era, Luksic, Paulmann, Angelini, Von Appen\u2026 all businessmen who evade taxes, collude and steal. The parties that represent them also have names: UDI, Evopoli, RN, DC, PS, PR, PPD.1<\/sup> They legislate for the businessmen. Our country is also a paradise for the transnational companies, which pillage our wealth and send it to their head offices in imperialist countries.
\nThis insurrectional uprising is against all of them.
\nWe salute the incorporation of more segments to this historic mobilization: public and municipal servants, teachers, workers of health, copper and ports, and even truck drivers.
\nWe salute and adhere to the call for General Strike made by the Roundtable for Social Unity [Mesa por la Unidad Social], composed by organizations like the CUT, Colegio de Profesores [College of Teachers], Federaci\u00f3n de Trabajadores Mineros [Mine Workers\u2019 Federation], NO + AFP, and several other unions, like Port Workers from Valpara\u00edso, and Santiago\u2019s Metro.
\nThe General Strike should be the next step in our struggle, to take the militaries off the streets and overthrow Pi\u00f1era\u2019s government.
\nMany of those Roundtable for Social Unity\u2019s leaders, with the exception of the Valpara\u00edso Port\u2019s leader, say that a withdrawal of the militaries in the streets is enough to open a dialogue with the government. We say: This government must leave now! No negotiation is possible with a killer of the people. We think the RSU should keep the General Strike until Pi\u00f1era falls.
\nMany of the social and union leaders participating in the RSU think that, if Pi\u00f1era takes the militaries off the streets, we will be able to go back to the Parliament easily, to pass laws in favor of workers. Such thing will not happen. The Parliament is territory of the big businessmen and their representatives. Only with the people in the streets permanently is that we will achieve deep changes.
\nLet\u2019s trust our power and rank-and-file organizations<\/strong>
\nWe know that, in moments like this, the unity of those who struggle is essential. But we also know that, sadly, many of the main Federations\u2019 leaders do not represent their rank-and-file and do not even know it well because they have been apart from their work places for years, with special benefits and privileges, and do not suffer what workers suffer every day. This is why we call to lead this process, which is ours, from the territorial and rank-and-file organizations, through assemblies in which workers are not only consulted but also respected and able to choose their own direct representatives.
\nIt is not about freezing in the Parliament the laws that affect us, because all laws do. It is not about lowering the parliamentarians\u2019 wages, but to end all privileges for a few, as well as the influence bought by businessmen in every institution of this democracy: parliament, ministries, courts, internal revenues, municipalities, etc.
\nEnough of the Armed Forces killing the people! A call to the troops to break hierarchy<\/strong>
\nWe have almost 20 death people already. Our youth, even children. The violence by Carabineros<\/em> and the Armed Forces is savage. They are committing all type of atrocities against the population during the curfew. Hundreds of wounded, thousands of detainees. We cannot accept this.
\nThe militaries have to leave the streets immediately!
\nWe call all workers, people from communities, and youth to ignore the curfew and organize cacerolazos<\/em> in their neighborhoods, as well as demonstrations, assemblies, ollas populares<\/em>2<\/sup>, etc.
\nWe also call the Armed Forces and Carabineros<\/em>\u2019 troops to break the hierarchy. The soldiers and troops are the children of poor families of the city and countryside. We know your parents are workers and peasants; we know you were raised in communities; you earn miserable wages and suffer abuse and discrimination by your superiors. So we say to you: join the people! Disobey the orders of your superiors, part of the privileged ones in the country, turned against their own blood serving the businessmen. We tell you: organize! Participate in the communities\u2019 and workers\u2019 assemblies and pose your demands. Break the military tradition of repressing the people! Organize within your troop to pose your demands and take your superiors down!
\nPi\u00f1era declares: to give the fingers to keep the hands<\/strong>
\nPi\u00f1era announced yesterday, in TV, a series of measures to calm dawn the people in the streets. These measures are a smokescreen. They do not solve any of our class\u2019 problems. Businessmen and rich ones want to give us their fingers so they can keep their hands. We are tired of this. We do not accept the government\u2019s crumbs. Workers, citizens, youth in the streets want to deeply change this system of injustices and social inequality!
\nWe think the only solution is to stay mobilized, to move forward in our organization in neighborhoods, mines, ports, factories, squares. We know that taking Pi\u00f1era down is also not enough. There are also the Parliament, justice, media and companies in hands of the millionaires of the country and transnational companies. We believe that is necessary to make a socialist revolution to corner all big businessmen, recover the natural resources for our people, close the parliament and replace it with working class\u2019, communities\u2019 and youth organizations, as well as unions. The only solution for the country is a popular, workers\u2019 government!
\nOur call<\/strong>
\nFrom the MIT, we call the RSU to rely on the great mobilization that cornered the government, to:
\nDemand the withdrawal of the Armed Forces and of \u201corder\u201d from the streets and mobilized regions, including the Mapuche territory;
\nKeep the call of National General Strike for all productive segments and services until Pi\u00f1era and his administration fall.
\nIf there are leaders in the Roundtable that do not follow our demands, we should change them. Our leaders should be elected at our assemblies. Our organizations are struggle bodies, not for agreements or privileges.
\nNo trust in the negotiation with representatives of the corrupt, pro-business government and its political parties!
\nImmediate raise of the minimum wage to 500,000 CL pesos!
\nEnd the AFPs now! For a solidary, tripartite distribution system!
\nReduction of work shifts without wage reduction!
\nRenationalization of copper and all natural resources under workers\u2019 and popular control! Use the revenues for public health and education!
\nLet\u2019s keep mobilized and organized to achieve a workers\u2019, popular government!
\nWe invite all \u2013 workers, communities, students, Mapuches, immigrants and people of all ethnicity and sexual group to join this struggle and organize in the MIT. The International Workers\u2019 Movement is a party where you will not have privileges but a place to struggle for the recovery of our country from the businessmen and transnationals\u2019 claws. We fight for a socialist revolution, to end capitalism that exploits and oppresses us. We fight to build true socialism in Chile and the world.
\n 
\nTranslation: Sofia Ballack.
\nTranslation Notes:<\/u>
\n1 UDI: Independent Democratic Union \/ Evopoli: Political Evolution \/ RN: National Renewal \/ DC: Christian Democracy \/ PS: Socialist Party \/ PR: Radical Party \/ PPD: Party for Democracy.
\n2 Ollas populares<\/em>, or ollas comunes<\/em>, literally popular pans<\/em>, are common meals made collectively to face a situation of extreme poverty and\/or hunger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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