Chile
This extensive collection focuses primarily on the advent of the elected socialist Presidency of Salvador Allende in Chile and the 1973 fascist coup against Allende, engineered by the CIA and led by General Augusto Pinochet, with the massive repression against the left and all progressive forces that followed. Many of these materials were used in the production of Chile: The Promise of Freedom by the Freedom Archives.
This collection also features materials of the MIR (Revolutionary Left Movement) in Chile, a Marxist paramilitary guerrilla organization. Formed in 1965, the MIR emerged from various student groups centered in Santiago, and later developed a base in various industrial trade union organizations. After the coup d’état and overthrow of popularly elected socialist Salvador Allende in 1973, the organization was forced underground while they attempted to establish a guerilla front against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The Pinochet regime successful targeting and murder of thousands of MIR party members drastically impacted the organization's success, however after 1990 and the democratization of Chile, the party reemerged.
This collection also features materials of the MIR (Revolutionary Left Movement) in Chile, a Marxist paramilitary guerrilla organization. Formed in 1965, the MIR emerged from various student groups centered in Santiago, and later developed a base in various industrial trade union organizations. After the coup d’état and overthrow of popularly elected socialist Salvador Allende in 1973, the organization was forced underground while they attempted to establish a guerilla front against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The Pinochet regime successful targeting and murder of thousands of MIR party members drastically impacted the organization's success, however after 1990 and the democratization of Chile, the party reemerged.
Documents
What is the MIR? Notes on the History of the MIR: Miguel Enriquez Collection (Documents from Chile on Party Building)
Contents include notes on the history of the MIR: how the organization was founded, the history preceding the foundation, basic political concepts of the MIR, the general history up to the writing of the periodical in 1974.
Chilean Resistance Courier: Orientations for Mass Work
Contents of the periodical include: orientations for the MIR's mass work, the growth of the party on all fronts, an interview with Juan Olivares, and Pobladores (people) in the resistance struggle.
The International Policies of the MIR: Miguel Enriquez Collection
Contents include an outline of the MIR's history and an explanation of its tactical and strategic principles for revolutionary struggle and party building.
No Middle Ground: Chile Ten Years After
An update on Chile ten years after the coup.
Chilean Resistance Courier: The Crisis of Imperialism and the Development of the Revolution
Contents include an editorial on the tasks of revolutionaries in the face of the continental revolution, the political situation propped up by imperialism and the junta, comments on the economy in Chile, resistance and organizing in the industrial sector, an interview with Andres Pascal Allende, a press release on the formation of the National Committee of People's Unity, an analysis of social democracy, comments on the international campaign to save Edgardo Enriquez's life, solidarity with other places in the world, and a speech by Nelson Gutierrez.
Chilean Resistance Courier: Interview with Gladys Diaz: Chilean Woman in the Resistance
Contents of the periodical include an editorial on the nature of the military state and its implications on the left; comments on the junta's initiative in juxtaposition with political division on the left; the Direcci
Chilean Resistance Courier
Contents include , the situation of the dicatorship and the problem of unity, the January 1974 Declaration, an interview with Miguel Enriquez, MIR Manfiesto, a declaration of the MIR's political commission, the MIR's response to the Gorilas, a communique from the MIR in October 1974, and a speech by Edgardo Enriquez.
Chilean Resistance Courier
Contents of the periodical include an editorial on the junta and its conflict with other bourgeois elements, the break of the Christian Democractic Party, the dictatorships' three pronged economic plan, lessons from the union's reactivation in 1976, the increase of organization and permanent action, a declaration by the Political Bureau on the Revolutionary Coordinating Junta, solidarity with Cuba, Nicaragua, Brazil, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Italy, and Vietnam, an analysis of Freism, and a declaration from the Interior Secretariat of the MIR, and the protocol of Agreement between the MIR and the Radical Party.
Chilean Resistance Courier
Contents include an editorial on the reactivation of the masses and the tasks of revolutionaries, an evaluation of the Chilean political situation in 1978, a lack of unity on the left, the economy of counter-revolution, an analysis of the PDC, the emergence of "new communists", international solidarity with Nicaragua, an inteview with the FPL, El Salvador's armed struggle, an an interivew with the Venezuelan MIR, and an interview with the Interior Secretariat: Popular democracy is the only path to revolutionary victory.
Chilean Resistance Courier
Contents include an editorial on the three tasks of the left: socialism, unity, and armed struggle, the advance of the people's alternative, resistance against hunger, and homage to Gabriel, the Chilean economy in 1978, the limits of the insitutionalization project, and military capability as a function of mass work, interview with a leader of the M-19 of Colombia in February 1979
