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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).

1872-1995: Anarchism in Chile

Chile: anarchism, the IWW and the workers movement

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

HELL YEAH explosion HIT THAT MFER UPBEAR BUTTON TO TRIGGER SOME LIBERALS skeleton-motorcycle

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Anyone else kind of just checked out on the election this time?

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I post two things today in /c/art

A beautiful pop art landscape painting - 13 updoots

Naked lady with boobs out - 20 updoots

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

There is a reason they keep painting tits

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Nothing says "I just care about anti-semitism" like fantasizing about setting pro-Palestine Jewish students on fire.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

"Surely this will be what goes too far and causes the US to stop supporting Israel"

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

"Kill the boers"?! That's appalling, I'm speaking to this anti-apartheid protest's manager.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

The crimes of this guilty nation can only be cleansed with what? Think of the optics before you speak there John

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dumbfucks speeding in their overweight trucks when theres 30 meters of visibility in a snowstorm you need MORE space to stop asshole

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

yes, this group gets the wall come the revolution

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

theyre doing their best to put themselves in ditches lol

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

on one hand, my hand is cold. on the other hand, my hand is cold. my hands are cold

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Just went to a talk by three doctors who went to Gaza to help, and it was exactly as depressing and horrifying as you’d expect

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Wine mom's burden

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Leftists are ableist to havana syndrome havers who don't tip their doordash drivers was such a good post omg

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I don't understand physics very well but from what I do understand, sci-fi space travel is kinda impossible because of the speed of light, which is problematic. So if someone could solve that and move faster than light that'd be handy. Get on that scientists

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

it is april 27 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hung out with some good people IRL, and it made me understand how shitty of a friend I've always been and how shitty of friends and family I've always had. While that's a really depressing realization, it's made me want to be a better friend to them.

Shoutout to all the queer communists out there: you all fucking rule.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Last words by communists when facing execution back then:

"Long live the Communist Party, and partisans! Fight, people, for your freedom! Do not surrender to the evildoers! I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me!"

and now:

LMAO cope and seethe wehracells you're going to picking those fat Ls for this later

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I moved a ton of rocks today, like literally. I out on my Japanese funk music and just trucked those suckers with a wheelbarrow and a bucket. It rocked.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I write the interprovincial exam for mechanical insulation on Friday. If I pass I'm a red seal journeyperson no longer an apprentice.

I've done really well so far but I'm worried this is when I'll fuck everything up

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

people have been saying neoliberalism is bringing back feudalism, but it sure seems like a medieval king was a hell of a lot more likely to seize the rich's wealth to fund the state than a modern neolib government

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Time to read some theory. Picked up Milton Friedman's "Capitalism and Freedom"

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Fuck it, I'm not trying to live forever. I'm gonna take two ibuprofen instead of one.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

only attracted to women out of jealousy

only attracted to men because I think it would be gender affirming to date one

whywhywhywhywhy

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just made cinnamon toast, a process that took much longer than it should have because the following occurred:

  • Couldn't find the sugar
  • Found the sugar but it was all dried out and had basically merged into one giant clump, requiring me to break it apart with a spoon
  • Poked a hole in the sugar bag while doing this, which I had to tape shut
  • The vegan butter I used, a new brand I switched to because my store stopped carrying the old one, exploded in the microwave, something the old brand did not do. I tried another brand, which also exploded in the microwave, but at least melted enough to be usable before doing so.
  • The lid fell off of the cinnamon bottle when I was making the cinnamon sugar, and a good half of the cinnamon poured out.

I find myself wondering if I've unknowingly offended a witch.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

when are citations needed going to come back i need them to angry but researched-and-correct yell about the coverage of the campus protests

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I hope all the university protests in American campuses right now ruin the country's reputation for being a magnet for international students. I consider it a win if a parent decides that the US is too dangerous to let their child attend and instead sends their children to global south universities.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Every penny the yen drops makes it harder for me to not make poor financial decisions involving imported weeb junk

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I dont have "hobbies", I have enrichment activities monke-return

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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'In 2004 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) found there was sufficient evidence to link indoor exposure to mold with upper respiratory tract symptoms, cough, and wheeze in otherwise healthy people; with asthma symptoms in people with asthma; and with hypersensitivity pneumonitis in individuals susceptible to that immune-mediated condition.' - the CDC website

It also does go on to explain that unless there is an allergic reaction or pre existing conditions it's hard for doctors to be certain how detrimental mold exposure is because the respiratory issues that it contributes to can come from so much other stuff its hard to say exactly how bad mold is, but it ain't good.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

You know you made something good when it causes a pretentious person to say "mmmYes, quite" capybara-fancy

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I’m a 9/10, I have the best pussy, I touch grass daily

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