[Chile] "Solidaridad", issue No.2 out now

The second issue of the Chilean class-struggle libertarian magazine "Solidaridad" is now available. The publication is a joint effort by the Santiago anarchist organizations Voz Negra, Estrategia Libertaria and the Corriente de Acción Libertaria. [Castellano]

"Solidaridad", Nº2 - July-August 2010

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"Solidaridad", issue No.2 out now

The second issue of the Chilean class-struggle libertarian magazine "Solidaridad" is now available. The publication is a joint effort by the Santiago anarchist organizations Voz Negra, Estrategia Libertaria and the Corriente de Acción Libertaria.

This issue has increased in size (16 pages) and costs 300 pesos. For information and contacts, write to publicacion.solidaridad at gmail dot com

Editorial (extract):

"Ultimately, more than 500,000 workers receive an inadequate minimum wage, a situation which also affects their families (about 2,000,000 people) who can thus barely survive, while the cost of living continues to increase every day. This situation does not depend exclusively on the right-wing government of the day, nor on their predecessors from the Concertación, but directly as a consequence of an economic model that both blocs administer in their own way, whose essence is to enrich the few at the cost of the poverty of the many, who are exploited. That is why shanty-town residents, workers and students have to cope with rising transport costs, the fight for wage claims and against layoffs, the dismantling of the public health service and the reduction of student grants. It is necessary to organize and support all the struggles that our class is involved in, taking a stand against the pettiness and greed of the interests of a wealthy minority, who laugh at the misery..."

Contents:

• Editorial: The rising cost of living
• Education: Educational reform in the new government.
• Labour: The thirst for profit and the Santiago public transport system
• Labour: An interview with striking Transaraucarias workers
• Labour: Union action, a need for the working class (Pt.1)
• Press: Popular communication school
• Local: Interview with the Red de Escuelas Libres (network of free schools)
• Ecology: Water, yes! Gold, no!
• International: The Old Continent and Latin America-style reforms
• Mapuche people: The Anti-Terrorist Law being used against the Mapuche
• Political prisoners: Urgent - Mapuche political prisoners in Concepción and Temuco begin a hunger strike
• Political prisoners: Juan Aliste Vega being held in Buenos Aires
• Historical Memory: The collectivization of transport in Catalonia
• and much more...

You can find "Solidaridad" (for now) in:

SANTIAGO: * Sarri-Sarri Records, "La galería", San Ignacio #75, local 31
* Librería Proyección. San Francisco #51
* Centro Cultural "Taller Sol", Compañía #2131
* Kiosk at Villa Francia (5 de Abril, costado COPEC)
* Information table at the Biblioteca Libre Rodrigo Cisterna, Villa Francia. Every Sunday in Las Estepas con Quemchi, from 11.00 am to 3.00 pm.

Translation by FdCA-International Relations Office