Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Monday, August 1, 2011

Struggles erupt across Chile

WORKER AND student and struggles have broken out across Chile in recent months in a series of challenges to the new right-wing government and its polices.

The recent eruption of Chile's Puyehue volcano, dormant for decades, has been seen by many commentators as a metaphor for the sudden emergence of resistance in a multitude of sectors, from copper miners to indigenous groups to high school and university students.

http://socialistworker.org/2011/08/01/struggles-erupt-across-chile