At the beginning of the 20th century, Chilean workers had no social or labor legislation that favored or protected them. It was they themselves, through mutual benefit societies, resistance societies and mancomunales, who organized themselves to protect their associates and promote proletarian solidarity.
The Federación Obrera de Chile (FOCH) began as a grouping of railroad workers with a mutualist orientation linked to the Democratic Party. In the mid-1910s, saltpeter workers began to join and it acquired a national character. Likewise, the Democratic Party lost influence when the revolutionary ideas of the Socialist Workers Party led by Luis Emilio Recabarren, who later became the Communist Party, were imposed on the organization, and the Federation assumed an anti-capitalist and revolutionary attitude that was strongly manifested in the social mobilizations that characterized the 1920s.
However, the enactment of the social laws and the Labor Code, between 1925 and 1931, radically changed the conformation of the labor movement and workers’ organizations. From then on, the unions and their federations debated whether to accept the new legislation and submit to its rules, as was the case of workers and employees in the state sector and large companies, or to continue with the classist and revolutionary discourse. The leadership of the workers’ movement, which adhered to the latter line, was divided between three large organizations: the FOCH, linked to the Communist Party, the CGT (National Confederation of Workers), of anarchist inspiration, and the CNS (National Confederation of Trade Unions), of socialist origin.
In 1934, the violent repression by Arturo Alessandri’s government of a national railroad strike was reacted by the unity of the different workers’ organizations. Thus, the Unified Command that emerged from the strike was transformed into a Trade Union Unity Front, which organized a Trade Union Unity Congress in December 1936, giving rise to the Confederation of Chilean Workers (CTCH).
The strength acquired by the new workers’ organization allowed them to form part of the political alliance that supported the candidacy of the radical Pedro Aguirre Cerda in the 1938 presidential election. The triumph of the Popular Front gave the CTCH a direct link with the new government, which, although it allowed it to grow as an organization, would later be the cause of its division and loss of prominence.
Indeed, at the end of the 1940s, the workers’ movement, which was strongly linked to the Communist Party through the Confederation of Workers of Chile, was strongly repressed and weakened by the government of Gabriel Gonzalez Videla when he enacted the Law for the Defense of Democracy or “Damned Law”. Consequently, the leadership of the workers’ movement was taken over by employee organizations, especially in the public sector, which through the leadership of Clotario Blest managed to organize a new workers’ confederation in 1953: the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT).
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HIT THAT MFER UPBEAR BUTTON TO TRIGGER SOME LIBERALS
One of the worst parts about growing up in small rural conservative town as a LGBTQ+ person is that I just don’t have any identity. Since there weren’t enough non-straight people in my town, I never got the chance to experience a non-straight community.
Ironically, I’m more accepted in conservative spaces than I am in LGBTQ+ spaces. Multiple gay friends have clocked me as a Republican, a Cop, or just intimidating before getting to know me. Sure Aunt Martha is racist and tells me I’m going to hell, but she’ll still invite me to the potluck because I’m polite. In non-straight spaces, I get cold stares and straight up ignored because I don’t have “gay socialization.”
It just sucks not to have any form of connection to a larger social group. Outsiders still form groups and have a culture, I fit nowhere.
Anyone else kind of just checked out on the election this time?
it’s so goddamn boring this time around. no wacky characters. where’s admiral sestak? where’s ben carson? where’s bloomberg? the best part of this election was that dude winning the race in american samoa by running ads there claiming to be very popular on the mainland even though no one here had ever heard of him, that was a good bit but everything else sucks. most boring election of my lifetime, so far anyways
I mean, yeah, that’s definitely part of it. But there’s just no hope for anything good happening. In 2016, it was like, holy shit, we really might do this thing and improve life for literally anyone. In 2020 we thought we really might win it, especially on the night of the Nevada Caucuses. Now, it’s between Genocide Joe and Trump and I just do not care. Nothing will get better regardless of who wins. The best we can hope for is that Nothing Will Fundamentally Change™️
Yeah
Just kinda grillpilled in general lately
Completely. I just don’t give a shit anymore
It’s like everyone else has, the media isn’t making it as big a circus.
I post two things today in /c/art
A beautiful pop art landscape painting - 13 updoots
Naked lady with boobs out - 20 updoots
many such cases in hexbear
Of all the things to get mad about singing, dancing, and drumming at the student protests is so funny. Conservatives are so terminally uncool they’ve become the mayor from footloose.
Nothing says “I just care about anti-semitism” like fantasizing about setting pro-Palestine Jewish students on fire.
assertions that cats don’t really know when to drink and need to eat wet food to properly hydrate seem like lies pushed by Big Wet Food to me, I’m pretty sure my cat knows when she’s thirsty
I think part of the issue is that left to their own devices they get a lot of moisture from blood and organs and drinking water supplements that, but isn’t usually their main water intake. Plus, I imagine they need more water than they otherwise would to process dry food. like how you need water if you’re going to just demolish a whole sleeve of crackers by yourself.
“Surely this will be what goes too far and causes the US to stop supporting Israel”
Its super funny that we are 1-2 months away from lemmy libs calling the admin of midwestsocial a tankie simply for not backing genocide
Classic tankie ratchet effect lol
If “supports genocide” is the single issue for you, then you live an immensely privileged life
lol, lmao
edit: also this guy shower arguing with himself is pretty funny:
One of us! One of us!
dumbfucks speeding in their overweight trucks when theres 30 meters of visibility in a snowstorm you need MORE space to stop asshole
yes, this group gets the wall come the revolution
theyre doing their best to put themselves in ditches lol
What ever happened to working class solidarity? You think truckers want to sacrifice safety for fun? You think Truckers are doing so well that they have a choice to just take it easy? Truckers bear a significant amount of the pressure caused by the irrational demands of capital. They are a highly valuable group of people that are on the edge of radicalization.
I think it was meant to be Ford trucks, not semi trucks.
“Kill the boers”?! That’s appalling, I’m speaking to this anti-apartheid protest’s manager.
The crimes of this guilty nation can only be cleansed with what? Think of the optics before you speak there John
Its not even the optics. Its just a bad metaphor. Imagine trying to clean a shirt in a bucket of blood? It just isn’t gonna work. I don’t care how dirty something is, blood will not and can not make it any cleaner. Sorry John.
KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL THE BOERS! KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL THE BOERS! IT’S A HOLIDAY IN SOUTH AFRICA, WHERE WHITE PEOPLE ARE DUTCH FOR NO GOOD REASON
- The Dead Rhodes
brandon looking terrible in this thumbnail
seems I’ve finally let my 𝕏 account expire after being deactivated for long enough. same account I had since 2009. feels bittersweet but alas, I am finally free