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