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This article describes the events that led to the first legal peasant’s strike in Chile which happened under the Ley de Sindicación Campesina de 1967 (Farm Workers’ Union of 1967). The strike, which took place at the farm of San Miguel (located in Chile’s V Region) occurred between the months of June and August of 1968. It is considered as the first attempt by the Chilean Socialist Party of implementing its rural revolutionary strategies upon the Chilean central valley peasants: a group which was politically motivated. By using this concrete example, the investigation encompasses the questions of how strong the armed groups of these times were and of how much success the projects they embraced actually had.