El Comunista (Antofagasta)

El Comunista ('The Communist') was a daily newspaper published from Antofagasta, Chile.[1][2][3] The publication was founded by Luis Emilio Recabarren.[4] It was published between 1916 and 1927.[5] The newspaper was known as El Socialista ('The Socialist') until 1922.[2] The name change followed the transformation of the Socialist Workers Party into the Communist Party of Chile.[6] José Vega Diaz served as typographer, editor and director of El Socialista.[7] As of 1926 Pedro Caballero was the director of El Comunista.[8]

This article is about the Chilean newspaper of 1916–27. For the co-existing Spanish newspaper, see El Comunista.
El Comunista
TypeDaily
Founder(s)Luis Emilio Recabarren
EditorJosé Vega Diaz
Founded1916
Political alignmentCommunist
LanguageSpanish
Ceased publication1926
HeadquartersAntofagasta

For a period El Comunista was the largest newspaper in Antofagasta, with a circulation superior to all other newspapers in the city combined.[9] The newspaper supported the Federación Obrera de Chile.[1]

References
  1. Poblete Troncoso, Moisés. La organización sindical en Chile y otros estudios sociales. Santiago de Chile: Imprenta R. Brias, 1926. p. 35
  2. Uliánova, Olga, and Alfredo Riquelme. Chile en los archivos soviéticos, 1922-1991, Vol I.. [Chile]: Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos, 2005. p. 115
  3. Seminario Pontificio Mayor (Santiago, Chile), and Sociedad de Historia de la Iglesia en Chile. Anuario de historia de la Iglesia en Chile, Vol. 7-10. Santiago de Chile: Seminario Pontificio Mayor, 1983. p. 185
  4. Bergquist, Charles W. Exports, Labor, and the Left: An Essay on Twentieth-Century Chilean History. Washington, D.C.: Wilson Center, 1981. p. 29
  5. Recabarren, Luis Emilio. Obras escogidas, Vol I. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Recabarren, 1965. p. 188
  6. Pinto Vallejos, Julio, and Verónica Valdivia Ortiz de Zárate. Revolución proletaria o querida chusma?: socialismo y Alessandrismo en la pugna por la politización pampina (1911 - 1932). Santiago de Chile: LOM Ediciones, 2001. p. 135
  7. Concheiro, Elvira, Massimo Modonesi, and Horacio Gutiérrez Crespo. El comunismo: otras miradas desde América Latina. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2007. p. 284
  8. Chile Pan Am: The Latin-American News Magazine, Vol. 1–2. The Chile Publishing Co., 1926. p. 176
  9. Necochea, Hernán Ramírez and Julio Pinto Vallejos. Obras escogidas: Antecentes económicos de la independencia de Chile ; Origen y formación del Partido Comunista de Chile ; Las fuerzas armadas y la política en Chile (1810-1970). LOM Ediciones, 2007. p. 440
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