Twelve million Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang province are subjected to blanket repression, but Western concern for their plight is hypocritical and driven by the desire to get “one up” on China in a developing cold war.
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).