Franck Gaudichaud

is a lecturer in Latin American Civilization at the University of Grenoble and a visiting researcher at the University of Chile.

Fifty Years Since Its Founding:  A History of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR)

Franck Gaudichaud September 24, 2015

The MIR was born on August 15, 1965, out of the confluence of several small currents of the critical left that at that time opposed parliamentarianism and the legalism of the majority of the left and aspired to construct a Marxist revolutionary organization, rupturing with electoral strategies and the state.

Chile: After 2011, Social Struggles and Constituent Process

Franck Gaudichaud and Sergio Grez June 25, 2015

The question is how to develop, today in Chile, an anti-capitalist left, not dogmatic or sectarian or electioneering or opportunistic, able to debate a political program of clear rupture, but also helping in the short term to develop the unitary action, on the social and political front, which is useful for strengthening popular movements.