Greetings international comrades.
This past September marked another anniversary of military coup in Chile. The coup, led by Augusto Pinochet, took place on September 11th, 1973. The military coup overthrew the elected socialist president, Salvador Allende. Pinochet was assisted by the CIA and Nixon administration. He also received his share of support from his friends such as Thatcher. Pinochet's regime was responsible for the disappearance and execution of thousands and the torture of tens of thousands during his rule up until 1990. The current "democratic" government has only furthered and continued Pinochet's neoliberal economy. This includes members of Allende's Socialist Party. The dictatorship continues.
Political repression continues. Militant demonstrators continue to be murdered by police, such as Claudia Lopez and Alex Lemún. Just this year, a forestry worker, Rodrigo Cisterna, was brutally shot and murdered by Chilean police. He was striking and setting up barricades with construction machinery. He headed towards one of the jeeps used by militarized Chilean police, and GOPE (Chilean SWAT) shot and killed him. The press later claimed that this was a “suicide act.”
Black September
The weeks leading up to September 11th included protests of masked demonstrators throughout public university campuses. Demonstrators barricaded streets outside of their campuses, and they combated police with molotov cocktails. Masked demonstrators read militant declarations during their protests to the applause of students. Police responded with their usual repression: tear gassing campuses, utilizing water cannons, and occasionally entering university campuses to arrest students at random.
In the weeks leading up to the anniversary of the coup, one of the capitalist news stations was bombed. No one was injured. A comunique was left, which stated:
“We denounce the communications media for their complicity with the rich and powerful. Their work transforms them into one more instrument of capitalist domination.
They want to sell us objectivity and neutrality but we’re not buying it. Their investigative journalism has always looked to denounce the efforts of the poorest with the desire to criminalize them. Never have they raised their accusing finger against the bosses’ abuses.
They make fashionable speech about the revolving door and the lack of heavy-handed justice, but they have been seen asking for the murders of Ariel Antonioletti, Claudia López, Daniel Menco, Alex Lemún, Rodrigo Cisternas, and so many others assassinated by the repression within democracy.
Do their top stories or their special programs demonstrate the disinterest of the population? Because the murderers did not receive any castigation for their acts, nor has Belisario Velasco been denounced as the intellectual author of the assassination of Antonioletti.
We are not deceived, they are not neutral journalism but are journalism complicit with the rich and powerful. The poor interest them as far as they are criminalized by them or their misery is transformed into ratings.
Down with the Concertación and its Government for the Rich! For a Long Time We Have Maintained Small Flames of Rebellion, the Hour has Arrived for that Blaze to Grow!”
September 11 Popular Protest Against Capitalism!
The March in downtown
On September 9th, people gathered in downtown for the yearly protest on the Sunday before the military coup. This year, protestors were not allowed to pass by La Moneda (the presidential palace), because during the protests last year, someone through a molotov at La Moneda. It set a window on fire. This year, a heavy police presence prevented protestors from passing in front of the palace.
The protest turned down a nearby street, protestors began to remove the metal crowd control fences and throw them into the streets as barricades. This slightly helped to prevent the pigs from advancing on the crowd. Protestors showered cops with rocks and other objects. Police responded by attacking the crowd with tear gas and tanks armed with water canons. Protestors shattered the windows of capitalist targets.
The march continued towards the General Cemetery. The Cemetery includes the names of victims of the dictatorship. Once protestors entered the grounds, they were attacked by riot police armed with tanks with water cannons, tear gas, horses, and clubs. Police fired tear gas at people's bodies in a potentially deadly attempt at repression. Protestors responded by showering police with rocks and other objects.
The press claimed that the protests for the march this September 11th were “peaceful” unlike years past.
he Night of September 11thAs is customary, militant action took place across Santiago on the night of September 11th. Working class neighborhoods were closed of to police with burning barricades. Masked militants fought police with molotovs and in some areas with guns. Working class people battled police outside of their neighborhoods throughout the night. The evening ended with one cop dead with a gun shot wound to the head.
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