11 September - Never Forget

11 September 1973 US overthrew a democratically elected progressive government of Salvador Allende in Chile and replaced it with a fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. His rule was a brutal one, with over 3.000 murdered and almost 40.000 imprisoned or brutally tortured political opponents - but at the same time he was praised in the west as the savior of the Chilean economy as he implemented asinine austerity politics. While "economic markers" indeed rose, the standard of living sharply fell for the Chileans under his rule. His legacy is still alive as only after the riots of 2019 Chileans entered the process of fundamentally rewriting the constitution left by him that ensures supremacy of the military over the political rule. Ecery US invasion in defence of "freedom", "democracy" or "against communist influence" has not only been a mean of maintaining the imperialist intrests of the ruling class but also a staging ground for changes they wanted to bring home. Not even a decade later, the economic policies of Pinochet became the standard fare first in the US and then across almost the entire West. They know that they can't yet bring the full blunt force of political repression, but it's not for the lack of trying. Whenever the police tear gasses protests, remember that their end goal is nothing else but that. Politicians wish to always bring home what they can do to those unprotected by the laws. Guantanamo, secret CIA torture sites in Eastern Europe, "refugee camps" are the models that are and will be slowly integrated into the daily lives of the metropolis if you, the "protected" citizens will not demand justice for those outside of the protection of law. Also, don't forget about Jimmy Carter. With his idealistic approach to international relations he wanted to sweverly limit US support for the dictatorship, yet he got sabotaged not by the Republicans but by his own administration.