A-Infos (en) Chile, Santiago, FAS:OPINION LETTER MAY 2024 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

During the last few months, the brand new Chilean progressivism, 
self-proclaimed heir to the student mobilizations of 2006 and 2011, has 
confirmed - once again - the historical role that liberal democracies 
play when facing the worsening of capitalist misery. The "government of 
the people" is nothing more than a chimera vanished between repressive 
laws, state corruption, preventive prisons and the sacrifice of three 
peons - traitors to their class - to save "the queen" or, rather, the 
General Director of Carabineros, Ricardo Yáñez.

As we well know, Yáñez was being prosecuted for the Human Rights 
violations carried out in the context of the revolt of October 18, 2019. 
Said subject was on the verge of abandoning his position in order not to 
hinder the investigative process, with the date deadline May 7. However, 
a few days ago the champions of misinformation found new blood to stick 
their poisonous verbiage into: the death of three police officers.

Apparently, those three henchmen were sacrificed as useful fools with 
the aim of extending the mandate of their general, who, paradoxically, 
had his formalization hearing postponed for 5 months. For her part, the 
illustrious daughter of the joy that never came and current Minister of 
the Interior, Carolina Tohá, assured that: "at this moment there can be 
no change in the command of the police, because it would be a blow to an 
institution that is very hard hit.». And of course it is hit, yes, by 
the sale of weapons to drug trafficking, the murder of young people like 
Maximiliano Rodríguez, the 34 deaths during the social outbreak and a 
long etcetera.

Television and the press, undisputed enemies of the people, have only 
provided a breeding ground for the situation. Headlines such as "Attacks 
and violence: this is the dangerous P-72 highway, where three police 
officers were murdered in Chile", from El País, deepen the feeling of 
insecurity that the fifth estate has established in people's 
subconscious. Thus, the Mapuche, migrant and criminal tone steals the 
-un-informative stage of the morning shows and news programs.

Along these lines, we believe it is important to also delve into the 
alleged security crisis and the biased aggravating factor that the media 
has positioned: the migration phenomenon. Beyond the statistics, it is a 
fact that the topic "security" became the most important topic regarding 
the concerns of our class; The violent actions of organized crime, the 
spread of drug trafficking, kidnappings and hitmen have been the driving 
force of widespread panic that, unfortunately, was channeled through 
racism and xenophobia.

According to a report in Doble Espacio magazine, "only 5,722 foreigners 
occupy Chilean prisons, 12.1% of the total of 47,360 inmates, which is 
equivalent to 0.38% of the country's migrant population, according to 
the Jesuit Migrant Service.». However, people like Sergio Mancilla - 
political advisor to Gloria Neveillán - and the deputy for Antofagasta, 
Jaime Araya, affirm that policies should be promoted that criminalize 
migration through non-authorized steps, even going so far as to request 
a project that openly considers it a crime. . For his part, Araya did 
not hesitate to point out that the prisons are overcrowded mostly with 
Colombians and Venezuelans, when the statistics of the gendarmerie 
itself - a miserable institution that would have no reason to camouflage 
that - show otherwise.

Now, whatever the reason for the penitentiary rates, when push comes to 
shove, racist and xenophobic dogma is intertwined with the 
criminalization of poverty to, at the end of the day, send the children 
of the people behind bars regardless. nationality is a shambles. In 
fact, the poor from there and here congregate in common spaces where, 
despite their diverse individual trajectories, they generate a 
collective experience that leads to a unified response to the crisis of 
capital. This is visible in the land occupations, the street trade, and 
even in the towns themselves where an important part of those who run 
the businesses and the stalls at the fairs arrived from the most varied 
latitudes and share, side by side, the tyranny. of wage labor and 
capitalist misery with the local oppressed class.

Consequently, the Nain-Retamal Law, the Anti-Taking Law and the State 
Internal Security Law are the materialization of monitoring and 
punishing in the figure of a police State that displays its repressive 
itinerary. We imagine that the "comrade president", Gabriel Boric Font, 
is not far from enacting an anti-poor law, since, apparently, he 
despises our class as much as his father, Luis Boric Scarpa, former 
manager of Enap Magallanes and renowned Christian democrat, as well as a 
very famous enemy of the ground-floor enapinos or, as they called 
themselves, "changarines".

In this way, between the historical-family legacy and the excuse of 
dismantling organized crime, it is very likely that a permanent State of 
Exception will be decreed that - more directly than indirectly - seeks 
to keep us away from the streets, protests and any questioning of order. 
established. For some, the era of capital is here to stay, like an 
omnipotent god that irremediably guides our destinies towards the abyss; 
For others, this system is one more in the long history of humanity and, 
as in the past, we only need a sudden blow to trigger the system's fall.

The latter will not happen overnight; the interweaving of experiences 
must be projected consistently over time. To this day, there are 
innumerable popular struggles that are germinating in the territories; 
from the housing movements to the offensive against job insecurity and 
life itself; from the union dispute to the confrontation with 
extractivism and the elimination of patriarchy.

Currently, the scenario of greatest social conflict has been led by 
residents from different places in the Chilean region. Thus, in the face 
of the urban housing crisis, the respective mobilizations have brought 
to the fore the failure of the subsidiary model, implemented during the 
dictatorship and administered by progressivism, which only fed and 
continues to feed the businesses of the Chilean Chamber of Construction.

As the Santiago Anarchist Federation we salute the aforementioned 
struggles of the residents and highlight the multiple displays of 
dispute they have had, where land occupation, street mobilization and 
self-management surpass welfare and clientelism.

In closing, it should be noted that we are experiencing a complex 
context. A cold winter is approaching us that brings up the unworthiness 
of the public health system and, at the same time, the written and 
digital media incessantly advocate for the strengthening of the 
repressive apparatus. Along with this, the electoral odyssey approaches 
us hand in hand with a disgusting populism that does not distinguish 
between the cheap copy of European progressivism and the right wing that 
opts for a recalcitrant conservatism - Pinochetism - in the Make America 
Great Again style.

Faced with this scenario, there is nothing left but to continue 
promoting and building a political alternative based on the creation and 
strengthening of popular organizations, as well as the development of 
class autonomy, the depatriarchalization of all our practices and 
community management as engine of life We believe that the latter should 
be the programmatic axis to address the range of needs that afflict us, 
that is, community management of health, education, housing, food, among 
others. Only the spread of organized communities and neighborhood ties 
will make this imminent crisis of capital a safer and more bearable period.

https://fasanarquista7.wordpress.com/carta-de-opinion-mayo-2024/
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