In recent months, common people in Chile have taken to the streets not to pursue an ideological project or concrete cause — but as the result of the fragility and insecurity of everyday life, and the ...

Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal “center-right” and “center-left” governments that benefit the wealthy and multinational corporations at the expense of working ...

The turmoil in Chile satisfies old Marxists who, always looking for the next revolution, have set their hopes on Santiago. The leftist media, in turn, fuel the revolutionary mood by framing the story ...

Over the past decade, the neo-fascist right has made it clear that in their quest for political, ideological, and cultural hegemony, they aim to reshape common knowledge and re-educate society through ...

For the past several weeks, Chile has been rocked by massive protests, mainly in the capital city of Santiago. Traditionally, protests of this scale are the result of major political, social or ...

Why do some societies try to turn education into a commodity, while others recognize it as a necessary social good? In this interview, Bob Kuttner speaks with Cathie Martin, professor of political ...

In a historic milestone, Chile has finalized a draft of its first-ever democratically written constitution to replace the one created under the U.S.-backed neoliberal dictator Augusto Pinochet. The ...

The May 15 th and 16 th elections in Chile, which encompassed concurrently the vote for the 155 delegates to the Constituent Assembly as well as the vote for municipal officials and regional governors ...

Like a lot of people who like to know what’s going on in the world I spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks trying to understand what was going on in the UK, where finally, on Thursday, the ...

The coup against the government of Chile’s constitutionally elected president Salvador Allende, which marks its fiftieth anniversary this year, brought to a brutal and violent stop the course of ...

In Chile, a new set of mass protests took place Monday as President Sebastián Piñera fulfilled the promise to appoint new members to his Cabinet. As Piñera addressed the nation Monday, hundreds of ...

Chile embraced neoliberalism more than almost any other nation, with its 1980 privatization of pensions a hallmark of its paradigm shift. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund were quick to ...