{"id":9121,"date":"2019-12-03T01:35:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T01:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavozlit.com\/?p=9121"},"modified":"2019-12-03T01:35:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T01:35:18","slug":"chile-why-doesnt-pinera-fall-after-over-a-month-of-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2019\/12\/03\/chile-why-doesnt-pinera-fall-after-over-a-month-of-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"[Chile] Why Doesn\u2019t Pi\u00f1era Fall After Over a Month of Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>November 29, 2019<br \/>\nWe have been in the streets for over a month now, in this beautiful Chilean awakening process. Popular movement, youth and workers gave a nice example on how to fight back. We passed along our strength in struggle to our brothers and sisters in other countries, like Colombia, where banners in protests state \u201cNow Chile is an example to follow.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>By MIT-Chile<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nBusinessmen, their political parties and their government were terrorized and erratic: first, they took the militaries to the streets and declared war; then, they said they were sorry; later, they made a peace agreement and a new Constitution while they keep repressing, torturing, and even killing us; and in this frame, they try to give a series of concessions that they always refused to give (lowering the wages of parliamentarians, increasing pensions, etc.). Today we know that these are not enough, and we demand for much more.<br \/>\nIn this frame, the revolution continues. Neither the yellow bests [France] nor Kast\u2019s criminalization speeches; neither the criminal repression nor the attempt to deviate the process by the leaders of the Broad Front, were enough to take us off the streets. The mobilization continues thanks to the thousands of brave ones in the front line. We are closer than ever, and what unites us is the weariness by a neoliberal system that cannot hold itself. What unites us is the hope of defeating decades of abuse, and over all the necessity of taking Pi\u00f1era down \u2013 who has only 12% of approval.<br \/>\nHowever, despite the different movements among authorities and their institutions, Pi\u00f1era remains in power. Why? We think it is because of multiple elements combined to avoid this killer to fall. Among them:<br \/>\nThe parties of the regime, whether they are left or right-wing, held him there in one or another way. His main defenders, the right-wing, do it with a clearer speech, yet the former\u00a0<em>Concertaci\u00f3n<\/em>\u00a0parties, and at some point the Broad Front (FA) and the Communist Party (PC) do it as well. This becomes evident with statements like the one of Isabel Allende, from the Socialist Party (PS): \u201cpresidents are elected democratically and, as so, they must finish their terms.\u201d But not only: even if it is true that some opposition parties made a Constitutional Accusation against Pi\u00f1era, it was because of the pressure they were suffering from the people in the streets. And such Accusation cannot go far, because it is among the frames of the same pro-business, corrupt, repudiated institutions, like the parliament and the traditional parties. For example: the committee to review the Accusation has 5 members, 2 of them right-wing, 1 PC, 1 PS and the President of the committee, which is the DC (Christian Democracy) \u2013 the same party that just endorsed Pi\u00f1era in taking the militaries to the streets again, and this time without State of Emergency! Do we believe that the same parties, responsible for decades of pillaging, will take Pi\u00f1era off the presidency? Well\u2026 no.<br \/>\nPi\u00f1era is a direct representative of the Chilean businessmen. He is not like any other president; he is a businessman himself. He is one of the 10 richest families in Chile (the sixth), with 2800 million dollars of wealth, accomplished (like all businessmen do) through the exploitation of workers. Even if Pi\u00f1era is a \u201cnew businessman\u201d \u2013post-dictatorship,\u2013 it is evident that he reflects [represents], somehow, the ten families than pillaged the country. And so, if he falls, \u201cone of them\u201d falls, affecting the power they had during this whole time.<br \/>\nThe armed and repressive forces were united. The repressive forces were overwhelmed by the revolution, so Pi\u00f1era is proposing to take the militaries out to the streets again because he is not being able to hold the process with the Special Forces only. However, for them to be at their limit is not enough. We still need to achieve for the rank and file of the repressive forces, who come from working families, to stop defending this government and change sides to stand next to their people. We need \u201cmore David Velosos.\u201d [Soldier who refused to repress the people in the streets and was detained \u2013 T.N] This government does not care for the wellbeing of the low officers in the repressive forces. They just want to defend their own privileges. This is why soldiers should turn their guns around, defend their class and target their true enemies, instead: Pi\u00f1era, all the ones above, and their institutions.<br \/>\nThe working movement is part of the process but does not enter the scene organized and as one force. Among the industrial working class, the organized Port workers have been the vanguard of the process, adhering to every strike. Nevertheless, we still need to move forward in the entrance in this revolution of the proletariat as a whole, with its capacity of stopping the production and its methods of defense and protest.<br \/>\nThere is no space of organization of the struggle nationally, to embrace the fight of taking Pi\u00f1era down. In the streets, spontaneously, we all demand his fall. The walls speak through graffitis and words of order, making it explicit: \u201cOut with Pi\u00f1era\u201d. The majority of the Chilean people want this. However, we still need to advance from this spontaneous struggle to the aware organization, with the goal of preparing a plan of struggle to take Pi\u00f1era down as the key task ahead, and to debate how to continue the mobilization to achieve this. Popular Assemblies, committees, and other instances, where the ones below can organize \u2013 in those spaces, we must debate how to organize our struggle to take Pi\u00f1era down, and how to increase the coordination at a national level.<br \/>\n<strong>Let\u2019s continue this revolution in the streets, with a General Strike, until Pi\u00f1era falls<\/strong><br \/>\nWe must stay firm in the streets until Pi\u00f1era falls, until all of them fall, and until we actually achieve real changes in our lives. To encourage this revolution and give it strong support, we need an indefinite General Strike. It is an advance to carry out 48-h strikes, but it is not enough to achieve our goal. This struggle to take Pi\u00f1era down and for all of our demands must be planned from every organization body \u201cof the ones below\u201d: popular assemblies, committees, town halls, etc., with a national expression to articulate the process.<br \/>\nAlso, the rank and files from the repressive forces must adhere to this struggle. They must turn their riffles and shotguns around, and defend their class from the real violent ones: the government, the pillaging businessmen, and all the ones above.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s continue in the streets until Pi\u00f1era falls! Out with all of them! Let\u2019s end the AFPs and recover everything the richest families stole from us! For a free, sovereign Constituent Assembly! For a government of the ones below, a popular and workers\u2019 government achieved by a Socialist revolution!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nTranslation: Sofia Ballack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 29, 2019 We have been in the streets for over a month now, in this beautiful Chilean awakening process. Popular movement, youth and workers gave a nice example on how to fight back. We passed along our strength in struggle to our brothers and sisters in other countries, like Colombia, where banners in protests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13882120,"featured_media":9122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27806],"tags":[28292,29980],"class_list":["post-9121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internacionalinternational","tag-chile","tag-chilean-uprising"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdQxqk-2n7","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13882120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}