Elections in the Time of Covid: Peru and the "Marxist Road to Socialism" Whatever the electoral outcome, even if the predictions are for a victory of the "left", Castillo…
Revolutionary movements, theory and practice: The Peruvian experience of the 1980s - Bill Langan Why has the Maoist guerilla movement, Sendero Luminoso (the Shining Path), thrived when the rest of Stalinism is in such crisis? By Bill Langan
Self-help housing in South America WILLIAM MANGIN’s fascinating case-history of the human problems encountered in migration to the city and locating and housing a family in a “barriada” or squatters’ settlement, is reproduced by kind permission of Architectural Design.
Peru: Homophobic rally confronted by LGBTI and anarchist groups Tensions have been rising in Peru between an increasingly bold LGBTI movement and conservative…
Qué hacer Exposición de la historia del concepto de comunización, acompañada de una crítica de algunos sus usos más recientes y frívolos
1919: Peru General Strike for the 8 Hour Day A strike by male Peruvian textile workers for a universal 8 hour work day and pay increase spread throughout the Peruvian economy.
Workers' control in Latin America, 1930-1979 - Jonathan C Brown A series of essays investigating the everyday acts through which Latin American workers attempted to…
Complexities of Autonomy: Part Three of Four A brief look at Latin American autonomous movements and their contradictions, third part of a four part overview of autonomous movements
A short history of the 'Star of Peru' Bakery Workers' Federation (FOPEP) On 10 April 1887 a few dozen bakery employees in Lima got together to launch the ‘Star of Peru’ (Estrella del Peru) Bakery Workers’ Society (SOPEP: Sociedad de Obreros Panaderos Estrella del Perú), affiliating to the Universal Union Artisans’ Confederation as federated branch No 9.
Peru: The ideology of apocalypse Shining Path to what? A 1993 article criticising the effect the Maoist Shining Path's decades long conflict has had on…
Announcing @latinlibnews: keeping you up to speed on Latin America in 140 characters Announcing a new Twitter account that will provide irregular and brief updates on social movements…
Women’s popular movement and the Shining Path: The contradictions of patriarchal women's emancipation Please enjoy this original piece I recently wrote, about women's liberation and the…
