Karina Nohales is a labor lawyer, a member of the 8M Feminist Coordinating Committee, and a candidate for the Constituent Assembly in Chile. She is also a collaborating editor for Jacobin América Latina.
After decades of its dictatorship-era constitution drastically reducing the rights of workers, women, and others, a new constitution is on the way in Chile. The draft paves the way for collective labor rights, public health care, and much more.
In recent years, the women’s strike in Chile has become a driving force in the broader fight for dignity and equality across society. As the country prepares to rewrite its constitution, feminist organizers want to steer the process toward deep social transformation.