The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today analyses the political and economic dynamics of development in Latin America through the lens of class struggle. Focusing in particular on Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, the book identifies how the shifts and changing dynamics of the class struggle have impacted on the rise, demise and resurgence of neo-liberal regimes in Latin America. This innovative book offers a unique perspective on the evolving dynamics of class struggle, engaging both the destructive forces of capitalist development and those seeking to consolidate the system and preserve the status quo, alongside the efforts of popular resistance concerned with the destructive ravages of capitalism on humankind, society and the global environment. Using theoretical observations based on empirical and historical case studies, this book argues that the class struggle remains intrinsically linked to the march of capitalist development. At a time when post-neo-liberal regimes in Latin America are faltering, this supplementary text provides a guide to the economic and political dynamics of capitalist development in the region, which will be invaluable to students and researchers of international development, anthropology and sociology, as well as those with an interest in Latin American politics and development.

Introduction Chapter 1 Class Struggle Back on the Agenda Chapter 2 Extractivism and Resistance: A New Era Chapter 3 Accumulation by Dispossession - and the Resistance Chapter 4 The Progressive Cycle in Latin American Politics Chapter 5 Argentina: The Return of the Right with Mario Hernandez Chapter 6 Brazil: Class Struggle in the Countryside Joao Marcio Mendes Pereira and Paulo Alentejano Chapter 7 Democracy Without the Workers: 25 years of the Labour Movement and Mature Neoliberalism in Chile Sebastian Osorio and Franck Gaudichaud Chapter 8 Mexico: Dynamics of a Class War Chapter 9 Paraguay: Class Struggle on the Extractive Frontier Arturo Ezquerro-Canete Chapter 10 Peru: The Return of the Class Struggle from Below Jan Lust Chapter 11 Venezuela: In the Eye of the Storm Chapter 12 The Return of the Right Conclusion