Anarchism in Chile

The anarchist movement in Chile emerged from European immigrants, followers of Mikhail Bakunin affiliated with the International Workingmen's Association, who contacted Manuel Chinchilla, a Spaniard living in Iquique.^[1] Their influence could be perceived at first within the labour unions of typographers, painters, builders and sailors. During the first decades of the 20th century, anarchism had a significant influence on the labour movement and intellectual circles of Chile. Some of the most prominent Chilean anarchists were: the poet Carlos Pezoa Véliz, the professor Dr Juan Gandulfo, the syndicalist workers Luis Olea, Magno Espinoza, Alejandro Escobar y Carballo, Ángela Muñoz Arancibia, Juan Chamorro, Armando Triviño and Ernesto Miranda, the teacher Flora Sanhueza, and the writers José Domingo Gómez Rojas, Fernando Santiván, José Santos González Vera and Manuel Rojas. At the moment, anarchist groups are experiencing a comeback in Chile through various student collectives, affinity groups, community and cultural centres, and squatting.

^ Hernandez, Sonia (30 November 2021). For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-05298-9.

[1] Hernandez, Sonia (30 November 2021). For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-05298-9.

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