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Who is Jeannette Jara the ‘communist” leading Chile presidential election ?
Villa Alemana, Chile – Cumbia music blasts from the speakers of a makeshift stage at a small, unassuming park in Villa Alemana, part of Chile’s central region.
Hundreds of locals crowd onto the paved park grounds. Pockets of friends dance together, and children race around their parents’ legs.
They have come to hear one of the frontrunners in Chile’s presidential race: Jeannette Jara.
A former labour minister, Jara is the nominee representing the leftist coalition in Sunday’s election.
But it is her membership in the Communist Party that makes her presidential bid historic. Not since Chile’s return to democracy in 1990 has a Communist candidate enjoyed such broad, mainstream support.
For some, Jara’s success is a barometer for the economic malaise fuelling this year’s election cycle. For others, her candidacy is a symptom of the growing polarisation within Chilean politics.
Jara has campaigned on the former, playing up her working-class roots. She has pledged to support Chile’s public healthcare system, build affordable housing and raise wages.
“Considering that politics generates so much mistrust, being able to gather like this, with hard-working people, really fills my heart,” Jara, 51, told the crowd in Villa Alemana, dressed in blue jeans and a loose-fitting blazer rolled up at the sleeves.
“It will be my priority to improve people’s quality of life.”
Who is Jeannette Jara the ‘communist” leading Chile presidential election ?
President Donald Trump to pause all migration from third-world countries
I think you are getting confused because he is using “ideology” in the descriptive sense, rather than in the prejoritive sense, as in “false consciousness”.
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That term was privately used by Engels when he sent a letter to Franz Mehring, but he never mentioned it in any of his works, and it was never used by Marx either. And several Marxists have rejected that concept.Marx defined it as the prevailing ideas of the ruling class in any class society, or the distortion of.
realityDonald Trump is not a fascist, and he is not a dictator; he is a reactionary authoritarian right-winger like the Democratic leaders. Only the Trotskyists and Stalinists are the ones who see Fascists all over the earth
Some Democratic leaders have called Trump a fascist and a dictator, but the Democrats have also supported many dictators, military juntas and criminals around the world, and they are warmongers too
The idea that Donald Trump is a Russian agent came from the Democratic leaders when they lost the election, and fascism is a form that capitalism adopted in Italy and Germany. Putin and Trump are pro-capitalist leaders, defenders of the capitalist society, and both promoted the capitalist ideology.
The USA ruling class has a contradiction with the Russian and Chinese capitalists and the European ruling class, but it is not an asset of the Russian capitalist class. Trump is a representative of one sector of the US capitalist class.
Many things that Trump is doing now, he said that he was going to do them on his political campaign and despite that, more than 77 million workers supported and voted for him
Rockhill’s book is a Stalinoid-campist take-down of the Frankfurt School that no one can take seriously. We do not have to agree with any writers or organisations to do a book review; on the contrary, it is much better to do a book review of opposite conceptions because we can explain our own.
His conceptions are not new; most of them have been previously covered by Raya Dunayevskaya, Kevin Anderson, Peter Hudis and Andrew Kliman from the Marxist Humanist point of view, by News and Letters, the Marxist Humanist Tendency and the International Marxist Humanist organisation, and they have written several books, articles, conferences, and book reviews. They have done a much better analysis, and they have written extensively in a critical way about the Frankfurt School
Kevin Anderson has debunked the concept of Western Marxism because they have done a profound investigation into Marx’s ethnological notebooks, which is more wider anthropological study than Engels book on the Family, pre-capitalist societies and the state, and the Asiatic despotic mode of production, which is different to European feudalism, and they have considered that Marxian theory is not a Western or Eurocentric conception, it does cover and it applies to the whole world
The idea that Marx’s conceptions are not anti-colonial or lack the knowledge of colonialism has been debunked too, after the apologists of socialism of the XXI century made allegations that Marx and Engels were not aware of “third-world” ( in the traditional sense, instead of the real definition ) colonialism when they wrote hundreds of articles about that, the problem emerged when Marx letter on Simom Bolivar calling him the Latin American Napoleon, which is not an incorrect analysis of simon bolivar, and he knew what he was saying
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-russia-war-peace-deal-trump-driscoll-abu-dhabi-talks-latest/
Ukraine agrees to peace proposal, with only “minor details” to settle, official says, but no word from Russia
By Camilla Schick, Margaret Brennan, James LaPorta, Nancy Cordes
Updated on: November 25, 2025 / 3:14 PM EST / CBS NewsRussia not in the loop, according to Peskov.
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That agreement was made by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska, and then it was confirmed in Florida with officials from Russia and the USA in October. It was not made public until November, and the government of Ukraine did not know about it.
Zelensky will be forced to sign it because there is an American investigation committee that investigated him and some of his officials about corruption and money embezzlement, and several Ukrainian officials have been forced to leave.
If he does not accept the proposal, he would be forced to follow the same path; they are holding him by the balls, and the European Union, which knew about the corruption, would be forced to pay 50% of the reconstruction of Ukraine.
The territories that Russia wants to keep were under its dominion before the war, and most citizens of those places want to be part of Russia, and Russia is getting what it wanted since the very beginning, and the USA is going to obtain large profits from the Ukrainian natural resources.
Russia has been able to develop some modern weapons that the Western powers and the USA do not have at present, including weapons that can produce a big tsunami
Brazil has free transportation for the whole population. More than 100 cities. Nothing new
https://www.cronista.com/mexico/actualidad-mx/el-pais-de-sudamerica-que-tiene-transporte-publico-gratis-funciona-en-mas-de-100-ciudades/
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2025/11/world-socialist-radio-no-such-thing.html
https://www.uitp.org/news/tarifa-de-transporte-publico-cero-en-brasil-por-jurandir-fernandes/My first alma mater had its own buses and free transportation for all the students, and free tuition, including the school of medicine, lunch, dinner and breakfast were free, textbooks were sold without any profits, and the senate was controlled by the students. Nothing new, and it was not a communist measure
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I have read all those articles; I just published a few of them. I could have published more of them at the proper time. This thread is more about Donald Trump’s presidency than anything else
I know that Trump is not a dictator, and he is not a fascist either, and I know that in advanced developed capitalist countries with limited bourgeois democracy, a personal dictatorship can not be established
I know that the WSWS is a Trotskyist organisation, but they cover news that the SPGB has not published yet, and I know that the DSA is a reformist organisation that is infiltrating some of its members within the Democratic Party to become representatives, senators, mayors, or governors, and the WSWS is running their own independent campaign too
Propaganda against socialism in the USA has existed for several decades, and the scare against communism has existed before the emergence of the soviet union, and it has been totally distorted by the right-wingers and the left-wingers. During the campaign of McCarthy, several members of the CPUSA were sent to prisons, others were executed, and most of them were innocent
With the propaganda made by some left-wingers like Bernie Sanders and Mamdani, the concept of socialism ( a social democrat view ) has been spread among a few men and women within the American youth
More radical than Mamdami has been elected as president in Latin America, including Salvador Allende, Boric, Bosh ( founder of a ‘Marxist’ political party, and studied Marx works ), and Hugo Chavez ( who read several works of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky ) and Fidel Castro, and they were forced to follow the pull of the market system.
At present, a former member of the Communist Party of Chile is running as president, and she obtained about 30% of the votes against a right-winger. Puerto Rico, which is a territory of the USA, formed a leftist coalition during the last election, and they obtained a second place.
Most of the supporters of Mamdami are Latin American workers and especially Puerto Ricans, who are the same supporters of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Cortez who is another member of the DSA and will probably run as senator or for the USA presidency
He is not new; he is something new and extraordinary for the American workers
Daniel DeLeon ( SLP of America ) ran for president several times. The CPV is saying that he was born and grew up in Venezuela
Make Argentina Crash Again: On Milei’s Neoliberal Experiment
Make Argentina crash again
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/24/jaon-n24.html
Europe’s hysterical war propaganda is not driven by any real military threat facing Europe but by the imperialist interests and anti-democratic political agenda of European capitalism. The European Union has more than three times Russia’s population of 143 million and more than seven times its economy of approximately US$2 trillion. Russian forces have neither the capacity nor the intention to conquer Europe.
By waging the Ukraine war, the European powers hope to enforce both their commercial and military interests in Eurasia, and—inextricably bound up with this—an ultra-reactionary political climate at home. Fully 89 per cent of Western Europeans opposed sending troops to Ukraine, and there was explosive social anger at pension cuts and other austerity measures used to fund the war. Yet the war proceeded, plunging US and European governments ever deeper into debt, and working-class opposition to war was politically suppressed.
” You’ve chosen TM’s favourite (cracked) record there.”
Just wait until after Geneva tomorrow. They’ll get at Trump, and the weapons will keep flowing into Ukraine.
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The European powers also want a piece of the fruitcake, like the USA and the Russian capitalist class. There’s no goring among oxen. The USA already lost this proxy war, and on Sunday, Russia attacked Ukraine again
US banks shelve $20 billion bailout plan for Argentina. They can only provide a $ 5 billion short-term loan, which is not even enough for several Parrilladas and Malbecs. Donald Trump made a lot of noise, but his promises failed, and workers voted for Milei Congress again, and despite that, his approval was very low. Ironically, besides being a debtor, it is also a creditor; Cuba, Guyana, and Guinea owe Argentina more than 3 billion dollars, which have not been paid
A reformist is not a threat to capitalism
‘I’ll be cheering for him’: Takeaways from Trump and Mamdani’s surprisingly cordial meeting
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgqd42gl0qo
US President Donald Trump met New York City’s newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani at the White House in what was billed as the political showdown of the year – but instead became a praise fest.
In his election victory speech, the self-described Democratic socialist mayor called Trump a “despot.”
And before Friday’s meeting, the president’s spokeswoman had billed Mamdani’s visit as a “communist coming to the White House”.But standing side-by-side in the Oval Office, the two men struck a surprisingly conciliatory tone.
Over and over, both men emphasised their shared interest in addressing New York City’s affordability crisis. They smiled often, and Trump even appeared amused as reporters asked him about the political attacks Mamdani had fired his way.The tone of the meeting appeared to strike political observers off guard, but it offered a signal that both men understand that tackling the affordability crisis is critical to their political success.
Whether the truce will last once Mamdani takes office on 1 January remains to be seen.
Until then, “I’ll be cheering for him,” Trump said.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-meets-mamdani?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=ce0216671f-Top+News+%7C+Fri.+11%2F21%2F25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-601439995After Threats Throughout NYC Campaign, Trump Lauds Mamdani at White House
“I feel very confident that he can do a very good job,” Trump said of Mamdani after their White House meeting. “I think he is going to surprise some conservative people, actually.”Asked by another reporter if he was standing next to a “jihadist”—as Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) called Mamdani over his support for Palestinian liberation and opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza—Trump said, “No… I met with a man who is a very rational person.”
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Joe Biden supported a Jihadist to overthrow the government of Syria, and was welcomed at the white house by Dondla Trump , and Obama supported several of them too. The Taliban were called the freedom fightersPutin says U.S. plan for Ukraine could form the basis for a final peace settlement
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/21/g-s1-98791/ukraine-russia-war-us-peace-plan
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday cautiously welcomed a U.S. proposal to end Moscow’s nearly four-year war in Ukraine, saying it “could form the basis of a final peace settlement.”
Putin said Moscow had received the plan, which he called “a new version” and “a modernized plan,” which he said “could form the basis for a final peace settlement.”
“But this text has not been discussed with us in any substantive way, and I can guess why,” Putin said in Moscow. “The U.S. administration has so far been unable to secure the consent of the Ukrainian side. Ukraine is against it. Apparently, Ukraine and its European allies are still under illusions and the dream of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield.”
