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At the beginning of the 20th century, Chilean workers had no social or labor legislation that favored or protected them. It was they themselves, through mutual benefit societies, resistance societies and mancomunales, who organized themselves to protect their associates and promote proletarian solidarity.

The Federación Obrera de Chile (FOCH) began as a grouping of railroad workers with a mutualist orientation linked to the Democratic Party. In the mid-1910s, saltpeter workers began to join and it acquired a national character. Likewise, the Democratic Party lost influence when the revolutionary ideas of the Socialist Workers Party led by Luis Emilio Recabarren, who later became the Communist Party, were imposed on the organization, and the Federation assumed an anti-capitalist and revolutionary attitude that was strongly manifested in the social mobilizations that characterized the 1920s.

However, the enactment of the social laws and the Labor Code, between 1925 and 1931, radically changed the conformation of the labor movement and workers' organizations. From then on, the unions and their federations debated whether to accept the new legislation and submit to its rules, as was the case of workers and employees in the state sector and large companies, or to continue with the classist and revolutionary discourse. The leadership of the workers' movement, which adhered to the latter line, was divided between three large organizations: the FOCH, linked to the Communist Party, the CGT (National Confederation of Workers), of anarchist inspiration, and the CNS (National Confederation of Trade Unions), of socialist origin.

In 1934, the violent repression by Arturo Alessandri's government of a national railroad strike was reacted by the unity of the different workers' organizations. Thus, the Unified Command that emerged from the strike was transformed into a Trade Union Unity Front, which organized a Trade Union Unity Congress in December 1936, giving rise to the Confederation of Chilean Workers (CTCH).

The strength acquired by the new workers' organization allowed them to form part of the political alliance that supported the candidacy of the radical Pedro Aguirre Cerda in the 1938 presidential election. The triumph of the Popular Front gave the CTCH a direct link with the new government, which, although it allowed it to grow as an organization, would later be the cause of its division and loss of prominence.

Indeed, at the end of the 1940s, the workers' movement, which was strongly linked to the Communist Party through the Confederation of Workers of Chile, was strongly repressed and weakened by the government of Gabriel Gonzalez Videla when he enacted the Law for the Defense of Democracy or "Damned Law". Consequently, the leadership of the workers' movement was taken over by employee organizations, especially in the public sector, which through the leadership of Clotario Blest managed to organize a new workers' confederation in 1953: the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT).

1872-1995: Anarchism in Chile

Chile: anarchism, the IWW and the workers movement

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Chat, what are you expected to reply with when she says "I wish I could afford to see a dominatrix sometime"?

Don't make a sex joke, I'll kill you myself.

Context is we were talking Null Hypothecis and I said all cis people should be forced to interrogate their genders, and she said she has evil lady brainrot so bad that the word "interrogate" made her "think things" to which I said "lmao", and then she says the above...

[–] Lenins_Cat_Reincarnated@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Either you flirt back and tell her you can be her dominatrix or you hide in a corner and cry because you can’t be the dominatrix she wants you to be.

Maybe a third option: “that sounds fun! We could go together sometime”

Disclaimer: idk wtf I’m talking about I’ve never been involved in fetish culture

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm married and monogamous, so none of these work for me although I do appreciate the spirit!

Can you fucking imagine offering to go to a fetish club together, jfc wtf

Surely I should not draw the conclusion that she is trying to flirt, right? Seems silly, I am married.

[–] Lenins_Cat_Reincarnated@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you’re married then maybe she just wants you to be supportive? “You go girl, I’m sure you’ll have your dominatrix fantasies realised some time”

Going to a fetish club with a close friend sounds kinda fun ngl

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That feels really fuckin weird to say, but I guess for next time someone opines to me about their unmet sexual desires...

[–] Lenins_Cat_Reincarnated@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that quote was a bit unserious/exaggerated, I feel like she set you up so that no response will sound normal though

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

Me sighing in relief when people are willing to carry on the conversation despite my painful social ineptitude kel-bliss

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Flirting with a married woman is something known to happen, she may just think there's a chance you're poly or have an open relationship in some way (not uncommon). Regardless, if you're not feeling it, maybe just make some joke about it and move on? Idk

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's no way, like c'mon it says I'm ace in my bio, and I am deeply unattractive anyway due to lack of restraint/talking too much. Unserious consideration imo...

I wouldn't know how to joke that away though, whenever people do that it usually stops my fragile thought processes for want of any kind of reply. The current bulletproof strategy is "don't say anything and wait for them to continue talking" since this lady is a chatterbox c:

[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, if she's a chatterbox she might simply just have bad boundaries with what is and isn't appropriate to say and for how long. Ezpz, figured out

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago

And autistic! Seems like the boundaries for when and how it's appropriate to talk certain things are really random though, Idk. If it doesn't get weirder I don't think I'll bring it up..