Underground Resistances from Latin America / Social Movements, Trade Unionism and Anarchism(s) between Progressive Disillusionment and the Far Right

An overview of the debates shaping Latin American social movements.

With autonomy and independence from political parties, this book brings together different realities that share a desire for a new era grounded in social justice, feminism, community activism, land defense, opposition to punitive politics, and life. Its pages include individual and collective contributions from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Divided into three sections — contexts, projects, and conversations — it explores debates running through social movements and reflections developed from different Latin American perspectives and circumstances. This is a valuable view in a time of mass disinformation, disappointment with progressivism, and the far right’s death drive. Drawing on reflections from Abya Yala, the book helps make sense of the time we are living through in our territories. As David Blanco, CGT Secretary for International Relations, writes in the foreword: “The Latin American perspectives gathered here emerge from a libertarian, class-based, and combative foundation, offering us a privileged window onto what is happening on the other side of the ocean”.