{"id":9851,"date":"2020-06-26T00:14:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavozlit.com\/?p=9851"},"modified":"2020-06-26T00:14:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:14:43","slug":"the-iwl-fi-website-launches-a-special-section-on-chilean-political-prisoners-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2020\/06\/26\/the-iwl-fi-website-launches-a-special-section-on-chilean-political-prisoners-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The IWL-FI website launches a special section on Chilean Political Prisoners Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the Pi\u00f1era administration keeps around 2,500 political prisoners in jail, detained during the mobilizations that began on October 18, 2019. It aims to physically eliminate some of the best fighters for the revolution through leaving prisons in dire situation, without the possibility of visits, several prisoners tested positive for COVID-19.<\/em> <\/span>
\nThe IWL-FI and its national sections have been following the campaign carried out by our comrades from MIT and from numerous political, social and human rights organizations demanding the release of political prisoners and sanitary conditions in all prisons. As a result of this action, several comrades have been released.
\nIn order to spread this campaign, we launched this special section in our Site.<\/strong> We invite you to follow the news on the situation of political prisoners and to join the campaign.<\/a>
\nOn October 18, 2019 a true revolution began in Chile. The world was witnessing the gigantic protests that challenged the repressive forces\u2019 backlash that tried to silence the people\u2019s demands. The mobilization, initiated against fares increase, turned into an uprising produced by years of injustice, exploitation and repression carried out by the capitalists against the workers and the people. The \u201cChilean model\u201d presented as the ideal of imperialism and the bourgeois governments of the world, exposed its true face.
\nThe images of thousands of young people on the \u201cfront line\u201d facing the brutal repression of the Pi\u00f1era government grabbed the spotlight of the news. The flag of our Chilean party, MIT, was flying proudly at Plaza de la Dignidad. Despite the policy of the world\u2019s bosses\u2019 media to hide the development of the revolution, it is still undeniable. This was verified on March 8 of this year, when, despite the divisive policy of some feminist organizations, more than a million invaded the streets of Santiago on International Women\u2019s Day.
\nFrom the beginning both government and capitalist\u2019s parties resorted to brutal repression, arrests, torture and killing dozens of fighters. The bullets of the carabinieri police force left hundreds of people with irreparable consequences. As singer Mon Laferte denounced at the Grammy Awards, the forces of repression in Chile \u201ctorture, rape and kill\u201d as a systematic policy. That is why fighting back repression and the struggle to set political prisoners free are central tasks of the revolution.
\nThe revolution has not yet said its last word<\/strong>
\nToday the situation of the pandemic has placed a pause in the revolution. Yet the struggle continues, and the protagonists continue to take action. Thus, while Pi\u00f1era administration, like its partners in other countries, places the defense of capitalists\u2019 profits above all else while the poorest suffer the consequences of abandonment now aggravated by the virus, many of those young people who were at the forefront of the protests are located in the \u201cfront line\u201d of confronting the pandemic today, organizing themselves in the Territorial Assemblies and other organizations, many of which emerged during the revolution, to help to organize the most neglected sectors where the bourgeois state is absent. In the fight for healthcare and survival, the same actors once again face each other.
\nThus, for example, in the center of Valpara\u00edso, the Plaza el Descanso y la Resistencia Assembly uses its communications and healthcare network created in the midst of the revolutionary process to put them at the service of fighting back the pandemic; The Marimonjas Assembly denounces the abandonment of the State and the precarious health system and creates a Sanitation Brigade; At Puente Alto commune, in Santiago, healthcare workers created a healthcare brigade, etc.
\nAs MIT comrades say \u201cthe organized people continue to accumulate experience for the coming struggles, creating organizations and deliberating on the future of society\u201d.
\nAt these times when we suffer the onslaught of capitalist barbarism and when the illegitimate business government of Pi\u00f1era and the corrupt parliament stumble without knowing what to do, it becomes imperative for us to resolve the most pressing aspects of this crisis through our own self-organization. We call to multiply popular organizations: territorial assemblies, collective pots, purchase groups, factory committees, healthcare and unemployed collectives to bring together our flags in a powerful organization, when the decisive hour strikes. \u201cThe Chilean revolution still has much to say\u201d.
\nFreedom for political prisoners now! Sanitary conditions in all prisons!<\/strong>
\nThe current chapter of the Chilean revolution demands from the fighters and defenders of Human Rights around the world a central task: the defense of the life of the Chilean political prisoners who are being tortured and pushed to death by the murderous Pi\u00f1era administration.
\nThis task is not only fundamental to save the lives of these heroic fighters, the vast majority of them young from working class and people\u2019s background, but it is also essential for the future of the revolution. We must develop a strong and massive international campaign to prevent the physical liquidation of an important part of the Chilean revolutionary vanguard. That is what is at stake now.
\nHuman rights and political prisoners\u2019 relatives\u2019 organizations, militant collectives and activists must feel the widest possible international support in this situation. At the same time, the Pi\u00f1era government must feel the entire world rejecting its criminal policy. We must demand that governments that fill their mouths talking about democracy and respect for human rights break relations with the Chilean government if it does not stop this genocide.
\nOnce again, we call everyone to send motions\/videos\/pictures in solidarity with political prisoners to the authorities and to help to fund the families, human rights defense organizations and lawyers who defend the prisoners which are under attack as Mar\u00eda Rivera from the \u201cPeople\u2019s Defender\u201d organization and MIT member. We place this special section on our Site at the service of this task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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