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Allende and Popular Unity The Road to Democratic Socialism

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

This book is a fascinating collection of carefully handpicked key texts and speeches from Chile’s 1,000 Days of Revolution , previously unpublished in English. Twenty-three texts embodying the activity of Unidad Popular and Salvador Allende’s government in the early 1970s are structured around five thematic sections, which tell the story of the common challenges for progressive political... Read more

Introduction 1. Participatory Democracy and Sovereignty on the Road to Socialism 2. Economy and Social Rights 3. Women and Gender Equality 4. Indigenous People 5. Unionism and Working Class Organization

Biography

Paula Vidal Molina is an associate professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Chile. Her research interests include state politics and policy, public policy, and Chilean Marxism history.

Ximena U. Odekerken is a doctoral student at the National University of San Martin, Argentina. Her research interests include political history and the history of the Left in Chile.

[The] anthology has the value of bringing primary documents of the Allende government into contact with the English-speaking reader, bringing that fundamental experience of the Chilean and Latin American left closer to the English-speaking public of the 21st century.

Rafael Rojas, La Revista Propuestas Críticas en Trabajo Social – Critical Proposals in Social Work