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Greetings to the fighters

Approaching a new Young Combatants' Day, a time when television news tends to disrupt their normal chronic Farandulera red and replace them with images of riots taking place seemingly senseless, presenting this date as a mere ritual acts and distorting lumpenescos that twenty-six years ago the Vergara brothers were killed in Las Rejas by the police of Pinochet, what would later be disguised as an armed confrontation, lie it would take more than 20 years to be legally rectified.

The youth killed for being committed by militants, to organize to fight against dictatorship and for wanting to build a more just world. As did Pedro Ortiz, sociology student at the University of Chile murdered in 1992 by the repressive forces of "democratic" government of consensus. That is why today it is essential to rescue this conviction and spirit as an example for our youth today, for young people sometimes lack a revolutionary conviction that leads us to be able to stand up against injustices generated by the neoliberal model.

Unlike the Vergara brothers, we are not children of the dictatorship. We are the children of a democratic transition agreed between the Coalition Forces and tailored for the rich, which has exacerbated social inequality and has the incredible accumulation of wealth by a handful of families that today are located among the richest in the world thanks to the work of the Chilean people exploited.

And while this March 29 many channeled their anger by throwing himself into the streets to deal with the police, we want to reclaim the young fighter beyond the media caricature " usual misfits " we claim it as the young aware and able to fight organized to confront reality and to act as an active member of social transformation. That is precisely what we should give it our student movement to give continuity to the rebel struggle Pedro Ortiz, siblings Vergara and all those who fell trying to build a fairer society and a decent life for all.

This Young Combatants' Day, we salute all the young fighters who take the initiative and do not stay idly against the injustices that are experienced daily. All from below daily invite their peers to discuss, demonstrate and build the organized force that will take us step by step to victory.

Collective Platform

March 2011