https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Return-of-the-Penguins https://internationalviewpoint.org/Return-of-the-Penguins 2012-03-11T19:15:58Z text/html en René Rojas Chile Youth and student movements <p>The penguinos came back, and their march turned into an all out anti-neoliberal stampede.The powerful movement of Chilean students (nicknamed “the penguins” after their dark-blue and white uniforms), which first rocked the presidency of Socialist Michelle Bachelet in 2006, returned with a vengeance last year. It grew in numbers, allies and intensity, and had the rightwing businessman president Sebastián Piñera on the ropes. And although the movement and government have entered a sort of stalemate, the struggle to democratize Chile's educational system has, for the first time since the country's return to democracy in 1990, challenged the very foundations of its neoliberal model.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV446-March-2012-" rel="directory">IV446 - March 2012</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Chile-+" rel="tag">Chile</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Youth-and-student-movements-+" rel="tag">Youth and student movements</a>