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 Federaciรณn 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).
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venting about my dad like always since like probably half my comments are about my dad or mom or whatever. cw: alcoholism, and a bit of suicide thoughts, and like, I dunno how to word this, maybe a bit of graphic descriptions I think? just being safe just in case
I dunno why like. I was talking to a friend earlier today, and I talked a little about why I don't like visiting/checking up substance abuse forums, mainly with alcohol. like those support groups? whether its adult children or alanon or whatever. besides like the religious stuff thrown into some of those that I dislike, I don't like.... Reading what other people are saying who are dealing with similar stuff or like past people with their past voices writing stuff to of same stuff. because it just too painful?it's all way too upsetting. that I legit just cant go to those places because I can't handle it. because it too much. and a lot of those reminds me way too much of my dad, and also like, sends me a bit on like overdrive? that like my dad could just die tomorrow from his drinking. and he probably could to.. he is old. and he can't keep doing this heavy drinking constantly to himself.
anyways like. guess who decided to check those places out! just not too long ago! me! why? because I dunno. and of course like it was pretty upsetting. I think this is one of the reasons I tend to vent on here is like, those places are kind of just like.. too much? anyways I saw someone talking about how their dad like, blackout and hit his head on cement. and like. just reminded me of my dad a few times in the past. where like twice or three times that happened? and one time like someone called an ambulance and he woke up and refused. I guess the reason I don't like those support groups is it involves a bunch of opening of stuff.. that I don't think I'm ready to deal with right now.
I was also talking to a friend how I cant play disco elysium because like those support groups, that just way too much to and I just can't. anyways. I really hate alcohol. I hate it. I'm happy my mom was able to stop drinking. To bad she couldn't give up smoking since that what helped killed her in the end.
among a few other things. just like. sometimes I can't help but feel like. no matter what. this only ends in sorrow? sadness. tragedy. despair. that this is the only way these things will end. I don't want to think that, and would like to think that like. my dad will like. stop drinking and get help. but the reality is like. he keeps refusing help. no matter what. doesn't matter how many people, friends or family, constantly try to tell him to get help, or give him substance abuse advice and that. it does not matter. and just feels like no matter what this ends in sadness someway or another. just only ends one way.... only ends in death.
even if like I was to get away. If I ever learned like my dad dranked himself to death. I think that would absolutely destroy me. esp. since like I don't want to feel like I abandoned my dad if I left? but then again, this is already destroying me now. that sometimes I think how nice it would be for sweet death to come and just take me away because this is all just way too much, esp with other things like with the death of my mom last year. I think about death way too much.
anyways. I just. I dunno why I did this to myself. I shouldn't have looked at those support forums. and that my fault. I was just thinking of today and stuff lately. where like. his cough gets worse. he eating lesser and lesser again. he hardly drinking water anymore to. and today he came home in like a bad mood and I just generally avoided him since something up, but when he in a bad mood. it's instinct to just shut down, be quiet, and avoid him and be silent and not make much noise.
it just starting to remind me too much of last year. and I keep talking about last year! last year! last year! last year! but last year was bad. whether its my mom dying/going into her death spiral/ and then dying, or my dad almost dying to. because he got very bad. and just. I dunno. I keep saying I dunno but I think when I say "I dunno" sometimes. I'm sometimes having trouble expressing the thoughts and feelings im feeling into words since sometimes language is very limiting. just I dunno! put heavy indescribable feeling here or something!
and adding this on to later on editing. but like. it's really hard to find any semblance or of hope or reason just to keep going and going. because everything just feels so bleak and grim. like why am I still here? I dunno. I'd like to think there a reason like some sort of fate or something. but still. it all just feels so dark. but no matter what. nothing will ever be the same again. just like with the death of my mom. or like with all of last year. just things won't ever be the same. things will have changed. but that just the nature of things.