We can't move forward as a progressive society, until we break away from our neoliberal past, says CHRIS WILLIAMSON
GUILLERMO TEILLIER has offered the El Siglo newspaper an initial assessment of the presidential primaries within the left’s coalition Apruebo Dignidad (I approve/Pass Dignity - integrated by Chile Digno/Dignified Chile and Frente Amplio/Broad Front), although he stresses: “we are just beginning the in-depth analysis.”
Teillier highlights the high participation in the process and the positive vote for [Chile’s Communist presidential candidate] Daniel Jadue and Chile Digno, while reiterating the commitment to work now for the presidential candidacy of Gabriel Boric, who has won the primary to become the candidate of the whole left.
There are questions about what happened, but I would like to start with what will happen. After the primaries, what's next for the Communist Party?
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Communist Party presidential candidate JEANNETTE JARA challenges the Chilean left to stop talking only among comrades and reach out to angry voters abandoned by politics in the race against the far right this November
For the first time in years, the dominant voice within Chile’s official left comes not from neoliberal centrists but from the world of labour, writes LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI



