Libertarian Left (Chile)

The Libertarian Left (Spanish: Izquierda Libertaria, IL) is a Chilean political and social movement formed in 2015 from the merger of the Libertarian Communist Organization (OCL), the Libertarian Students Front (FEL), the Ernesto Miranda Fighting Muralist Units (UMLEM) and other groups.

Libertarian Left

Izquierda Libertaria
Founded2015 (2015)
Student wingLibertarian Students Front
Women's wingLibertarian Feminist Front
IdeologyLeft-libertarianism, libertarian socialism
Political positionLeft-wing to far-left
National affiliationBroad Front (2017-2019)
Colors  Red
  Black
Slogan"For a socialist, feminist and libertarian country: we continue to build a dignified and sovereign people"
Website
izquierdalibertaria.cl

Origin
Old logo of the Libertarian Left

In the 1990s, libertarian communism began to rearticulate in Chile, and the Anarcho Communist Unification Congress (CUAC) was founded in 1999, which would be the first political organization in this process that sought to establish a specific anarcho-communist organization. Later, and a direct continuation of this experience, the Libertarian Communist Organization (OCL) was created in 2002 to build underground political-social fronts throughout the country, including the Libertarian Students Front (FEL). In 2015, this organization, along with other groups and expressions of the Chilean libertarian and rebel movement, entered a Strategic Congress where the creation of the Libertarian Left was proposed, after verifying the need to have a public reference that would allow them to face the tasks that were defined for said period,[1] and whose launch took place at the Novedades Theater in Santiago on June 11, 2016.[2]

Ideology

The ideological bases of the libertarian political project correspond to libertarian socialism, of anarcho-communist and Marxist roots. At the theoretical level, it is a movement that ascribes to a conception supported by the theory of praxis, based on the Marxist dialectic and with a feminist, anti-imperialist and Latin Americanist approach to historical-social processes. Politically, the strategy of democratic rupture is sustained to overcome the neo-liberal model, based on a deep democratization of society and overcoming their dictatorial heritage.[3]

In this sense, this movement maintains the centrality of its project in the working class as a broad and diverse subject of transformation, so it does not reduce this concept to the role of the trade union, although it understands it as a revolutionary social force.[4] For its part, tactically, they support both mass direct action and electoral struggle as complementary dimensions within the framework of a strategy of democratic breakdown.[5]

Trajectory

Izquierda Libertaria was one of the organizations that founded the Broad Front, appearing in the 2017 Chilean general election where they obtained a seat for the 13th district with Gael Yeomans,[6] and in the Tarapacá Region with Pablo Zambra Venegas.[7]

During 2018, Izquierda Libertaria entered the process of convergence with the Frente Amplio forces that did not have a legal party, considering the Autonomist Movement, New Democracy and Socialism and Freedom, which they ratified at the end of that same year. In 2019, this process gave rise to Social Convergence,[8] where three members were elected in the National Directorate and 8 members in the Central Committee, respectively. Subsequently, and due to internal political differences in Social Convergence as a result of the signing of the "Agreement for Peace" on November 15 and the vote on the anti-barricades law in December of that same year, the Political Commission of the Libertarian Left requested its membership evaluate their departure from said party.[9] They democratically make the decision to leave it, so a large part of the movement decided to withdraw from the party, though this did not include Congresswoman Gael Yeomans and her close circle who originally came from the Libertarian Left, thus retaking its name and public existence,[10] which lead to its consecutive departure from the Broad Front.

On the occasion of the 2019–2020 Chilean protests, it promoted a general strike on November 12 through its Trade Union Front, pressing for the convening of a Constituent Assembly. From that moment, the movement entered an Extraordinary Congress to equip itself with new tactical-strategic definitions regarding its thesis and general political line, deploying both in popular mobilizations and in the constituent opening through the Unity for Change, formed together with the Communist Party of Chile and the Equality Party, among other left-wing parties and social organizations not signatories to the agreement. This was articulated by the approval of the Constitutional Convention within the framework of the 2020 Chilean national plebiscite for a new free, sovereign, plurinational and feminist constitution.[11]

See also

References
  1. "Izquierda Libertaria, una nueva forma de hacer política" (in Spanish). Regeneración Libertaria. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  2. "Izquierda Libertaria se lanza oficialmente como fuerza política nacional en el Teatro Novedades" (in Spanish). El Desconcierto. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  3. "Ruptura democrática y acusación constitucional destituyente" (in Spanish). Universidad de Chile. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  4. "Emergencia política y la constitución del sujeto" (in Spanish). El Desconcierto. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  5. "Entrevista a Lucas Cifuentes, secretario de Izquierda Libertaria" (in Spanish). Lanzas y Letras. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  6. "Gael Yeomans, diputada electa de Izquierda Libertaria: "La bancada no se manda sola, tiene que responder a lo que discuta el FA"" (in Spanish). La Tercera. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  7. "Consejero Regional Pablo Zambra Venegas" (in Spanish). Gobierno Regional de Tarapacá. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  8. "Quién es quién en Convergencia Social, el nuevo partido del Frente Amplio" (in Spanish). CNN Chile. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  9. "Comisión Política de Izquierda Libertaria pide a sus militantes evaluar salida de Convergencia Social" (in Spanish). El Desconcierto. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  10. "Izquierda Libertaria se retira del partido Convergencia Social" (in Spanish). El Desconcierto. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  11. "Comando Chile Digno lanza oficialmente campaña por nueva constitución y asegura que seguiran apoyando el movimiento social" (in Spanish). El Mostrador. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
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