A left with audacity, decision, conviction, a program, and a clear strategy can confront the Right: an interview with Claudio Katz

D PhD from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/Brazil; Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies at the Trandes-Freie Universität Berlin-Germany. Currently pursuing a PhD in History at the University of Chile. Associate Professor at the University of Chile, she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Faculty of Social Sciences, and is a member of the Chilean Workers' Association. From July 2023 to date she has been President of the National Association of Academics of the University of Chile.

Economist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Master of Sciences in Labour Economics from the University of Turin (Italy), and Doktor der Philosophie from the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany, DAAD scholarship holder). His research interests are trade unionism, collective bargaining, wages, and inequality. He is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Chile.

Claudio Katz is an Argentinean economist, activist, and human rights activist. He was born in 1954. He studied economics at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and received his PhD. He is one of the most prominent economists of recent decades, with a long career in critical reflection in politics and academia. His publications have been translated into Portuguese, English, and Chinese. He is currently involved in various CLACSO working groups and has coordinated some of them.