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 FederaciΓ³n 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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So for years I thought I just didn't like anime as a form. All my friends watch anime. But I tried some of the more popular ones and didn't like any of them. I tried Death Note, and Monster, and Dragon Ball Z. On Brandon Sanderson's recommendation I tried Maria the Virgin Witch. I tried Attack on Titan. I watched some episodes of a random slice of life anime I've never been able to remember the name of. None of them were doing it for me.
Then I found the original GiTS movie. Then Standalone Complex, and the concluding SAC movie. I absolutely loved those. So I googled it to see where I could find more anime like these, and the result I found basically said "the feeble western mind only likes serial cop shows, so we made one and they flocked to it. But it wasn't super popular in Japan so we're not bothering to make more like it." I might have that wrong, but the gist of it was there wasn't anything else out there like SAC.
In the years since of course Netflix has begun releasing their own anime. Though I don't know if it's right to call them anime, really. I guess the look and the animation styles take a lot of cues from anime but as I understand it all those shows are written and created in the West, then they get Korean animation studios to actually make the shows. If that counts as anime then isn't The Simpsons also anime? But you know, Castlevania, DOTA: Dragon's Blood, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Blue-Eye Samurai.
All good shows, or at least I think so, but all written by Westerners aimed at Westerners. So even though I like those anime, or maybe anime-adjacent Western animation depending on how you look at it, I still feel like I don't really like anime. Before those shows started being made the only anime I'd found that I'd liked was GiTS and the original Full-Metal Alchemist. Kinda interested in trying out older stuff like Bubblegum Crisis or Legend of the Galactic Heroes. And on paper I should like Berserk, though I haven't tried it yet. Been meaning to read the manga and haven't gotten around to it yet.
But I have been watching Delicious in Dungeon and really liking it.
From what im reading here you do like Anime. You just seem to be very picky about it...which is totally fine btw.
Add the original Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 to the older stuff list.
Maybe try some other Studio Trigger stuff if you like Edgerunner and Delicious in Dungeon. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Promare, Kill La Kill, BNA: Brand New Animal.
And Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is better than the original Fullmetal Alchemist.
Avatar: The Last Airbender is an anime, so those Netflix anime are definitely also anime.
"Serial Experiments Lain". Go in totally blind. You will wonder how the production team nailed much of modern internet culture almost three decades ago.