Libertarian Left Izquierda Libertaria | |
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| Abbreviation | IL |
| Founded | 1999 (1999)(Anarcho Communist Unification Congress) 2002 (2002)(Libertarian Communist Organization) 2015 (2015)(Libertarian Left) |
| Merger of | OCL FEL UMLEM |
| Think tank | Node XXI |
| Student wing | FEL |
| Women's wing | IL Feminist Front |
| Ideology | Libertarian socialism Anarcho-communism Self-managing socialism Anti-neoliberalism Anti-fascism Internationalism Feminism |
| Political position | Left-wing tofar-left |
| National affiliation | Broad Front(2017–2019) Apruebo Dignidad(Jan–Aug 2021) Chile Digno(2020–present) |
| Regional affiliation | São Paulo Forum ALBA Movements |
| Colours | Red Dark purple Purple |
| Slogan | "For a socialist, feminist and libertarian country: we continue to build a dignified and sovereign people" |
| Senate | 0 / 43 |
| Chamber of Deputies | 1 / 155 |
| Regional boards | 1 / 278 |
| Website | |
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TheLibertarian Left (Spanish:Izquierda Libertaria, IL) is a Chileanpolitical andsocial 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.
In the 1990s,libertarian communism began to rearticulate in Chile, and theCongreso de Unificación Anarco-Comunista (Anarcho-Communist Unification Congress, CUAC) was founded in 1999, which would be the first political organization in this process that sought to establish a specificanarcho-communist organization. Later, and a direct continuation of this experience, theLibertarian Communist Organization (OCL) was created in 2002 to build underground political-social fronts throughout the country, including theLibertarian Students Front (FEL).[1] The OCL was the driving force behind theRed Libertaria (Libertarian Network, RL), which joined theTodos a la Moneda platform in the2013 Chilean election, whose candidate wasMarcel Claude.[2][3]
In 2015, OCL, 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 inSantiago on 11 June 2016.[4]
The ideological bases of the libertarian political project correspond tolibertarian socialism, ofanarcho-communist andMarxist roots. At the theoretical level, it is a movement that ascribes to a conception supported by the theory ofpraxis, based on theMarxist dialectic and with afeminist,anti-imperialist andLatin Americanist approach to historical-social processes. Politically, the strategy of democratic rupture is sustained to overcome theneo-liberal model, based on a deep democratization of society and overcoming theirdictatorial heritage.[5]
In this sense, this movement maintains the centrality of its project in theworking class as a broad and diverse subject of transformation, so it does not reduce this concept to the role of thetrade union, although it understands it as a revolutionary social force.[6] For its part, tactically, they support both massdirect action andelectoral struggle as complementary dimensions within the framework of a strategy of democratic breakdown.[7]
Izquierda Libertaria was one of the organizations that founded theFrente Amplio (Broad Front), appearing in the2017 Chilean general election where they obtained a seat for the 13th district withGael Yeomans,[8] and in the regional board of Tarapacá with Pablo Zambra Venegas.[9]
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 toSocial Convergence,[10] 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, in the context of the2019 Chilean Protest, of the "Agreement for Peace and a new constitution" (which initially the movement did not consider as a sufficient response to the protests, however months later it ended up supporting it), the Political Commission of the Libertarian Left requested its membership evaluate their departure from said party.[11] 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 a part of the members from theSantiago Metropolitan Region, the Congresswoman Gael Yeomans and her close circle who originally came from the Libertarian Left), thus retaking its name and public existence,[12] which lead to its consecutive departure from the Broad Front.
On the occasion of the2019–2020 Chilean protests, it promoted a general strike on 12 November through its Trade Union Front, pressing for the convening of aConstituent 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 theChile Digno, formed together with theCommunist Party of Chile and theEquality 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 the2020 Chilean national plebiscite for a new free, sovereign, plurinational and feminist constitution.[13]
On 10 June 2021, Izquierda Libertaria reported that it would support theCommunist Party candidateDaniel Jadue inApruebo Dignidad's2021 presidential primary.[14] The following month, Jadue was defeated by theBroad Front candidate fromSocial Convergence,Gabriel Boric.[15] Days before thepresidential elections, Izquierda Libertaria expressed their support for Boric.[16]
