The Communist Party of Chile is a communist party in Chile. It was founded in 1912 as the Socialist Workers' Party and adopted its current name in 1922. The party established a youth wing, the Communist Youth of Chile, in 1932.
Juventud, a Spanish word meaning youth, or Juventude, its Portuguese equivalent, may refer to:
Andalucista Youth was the youth wing of Partido Andalucista, in Andalusia, Spain. As of 2012 David Gómez has been the national secretary of JJ.AA. JJ.AA. is a member of the Youth Council of Andalusia. As of 1999, JJ.AA. claimed a membership of 9,864.
The Socialist Youth of Chile is the youth wing of the Socialist Party of Chile. It was founded on November 4, 1935, and it incorporates young socialism activists between the ages of 14 and 30. The JS has political representation at the local and national level and its members have played a prominent role in the student organizations in Chile. According to the last internal elections, the youth wing of the socialist party currently has 8500 members.
Camila Antonia Amaranta Vallejo Dowling is a Chilean communist politician and former student leader. A member of the Communist Party of Chile, she has been serving as the Minister General Secretariat of Government since 11 March 2022. Previously, Vallejo worked as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, representing District 26 of La Florida, Santiago.
The 2011 Chilean protests over the education have been primarily led by the CONFECH, the student unions association of Chile's 25 traditional universities, and CONES the student union association of secondary students of Chile. The student union leaders of emblematic universities and schools account for most of the movements leadership at national level.
The University of Chile Student Federation is an organization that represents all students enrolled in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs at the University of Chile. FECh includes the student associations from various undergraduate programs. At a national level, it is connected to the Confederation of Chilean Students.
Karol Aída Cariola Oliva is a Chilean politician, and former president of the Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Concepción for 2010. She was elected General Secretary of the Juventudes Comunistas de Chile, abbr. JJ.CC., at the organizations XIII Congress held in October 2011. Cariola is the second woman to hold this post in the Communist Youth of Chile after the late communist leader Gladys Marin (1941–2005).
Rossana Marisol Prado Villegas, is a Chilean physician, psychiatrist and academic who became the first woman to hold the post of president of the University of Chile Student Federation which was founded in 1906; she was the first and only woman until Camila Vallejo assumed the post in August 2010, followed by Scarlett Mac-Ginty in November 2011.
The Maoist Youth Union was a youth organization in Spain during the transition to democracy. It was founded as the youth wing of the Workers Revolutionary Organization (ORT) in 1975.
Camilo Igor Ballesteros Briones is a Chilean physical education undergraduate student and member of the Chilean Communist Youth. He was the president of the University of Santiago de Chile Student Federation (Feusach) in 2010-2011 and became of the main spokespersons of the Confederation of Chilean Students (Confech) during the movement for better access to quality education.
Gabriel Boric Font is a Chilean politician serving as the president of Chile since 11 March 2022. He previously served two four-year terms as a deputy in the Chamber of Deputies.
The Broad Front was a Chilean political coalition founded in early 2017, composed of left-wing parties and movements. Its first electoral contest was the 2017 Chilean general election, where their presidential candidate Beatriz Sánchez came third with 20% of the vote in the first round of election. The Broad Front also expanded their electoral representation to 20 deputies, 1 senator and 21 out of 278 Regional Councillors, thus consolidating the movement as the 'third force' in Chilean politics.
The Revolutionary Workers Party is a Trotskyist political party in Chile. It was founded in January 2017 and was the Chilean section of Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International. The party lost official registration after failing to meet the 5% minimum vote threshold in the 2021 elections.
Alejandro Rojas Wainer was a Chilean-Canadian academic. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Chile for Popular Unity in 1973, but left office after the coup d'état. Subsequently, he moved to Canada, and taught at the University of British Columbia.
Óscar Daniel Jadue Jadue is a Chilean architect, sociologist and Marxist politician. A member of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh), Jadue served as Mayor of Recoleta since 2012 until his dismisal in July 22, 2024.
Eugenio González Rojas was a Chilean philosopher, scholar, politician and writer. He was a founding member of the Chilean Socialist Party as well as its theoretician.
The prisoners of the 2019–2021 Chilean protests, dubbed by some groups as Prisoners of the Revolt, are people who have been held in custody in the context of the social unrest in Chile whose circumstances of detention have been subject of severe criticism including the claim they are political prisoners. A movement supported by representatives of the Congress of Chile and the Constitutional Convention calls for their release. The Government of Chile and Human Rights Watch reject the notion there would be political prisoners in Chile.
Daniela Andrea Serrano Salazar is a student of public administration and Chilean politician, a member of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh), who has served as president of Communist Youth of Chile since 2021. In the 2021 parliamentary elections, she was elected as a representative of the Republic representing district No. 12, for the 2022-2026 legislative period.
