Last October, Chileans voted overwhelmingly for a convention to redraft the 1980 constitution of the Pinochet dictatorship. Red Flag spoke to Camilo Parada Ortiz and Maura Fajardo Gálvez, candidates to the convention with the Movimiento Anticapitalista de Chile (Anti-capitalist Movement of Chile).
Argentina has a long tradition of workers occupying their factories and producing under workers’ control. In the crisis, workers who once had to sew police uniforms have taken control of their workplace and are now making surgical masks. A U.S. hotel worker currently in Argentina reports.