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Mahir Ali IT’S not unusual for battle lines in the class war to be delineated more clearly in Latin America than elsewhere, and the fault lines have deepened in recent decades. Yet the stark contrast between the competing candidates in Peru’s presidential run-off earlier this month was nonetheless remarkable. It pitted a rural primary school teacher born to illiterate Andean peasants, with little political experience beyond organising a union and spearheading a successful teachers’ strike, against the very epitome of entrenched privilege, a would-be dynast whose father misruled Peru for a decade and is paying the price with a 25-year prison term. ....
Here is a mission worthy of a new generation.” -José Carlos Mariátegui, “Anniversary and Balance,” José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology June 26, 2021 Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Orinoco Tribune While the turn towards analyzing ongoing settler-colonialism has finally reached the mainstream of North American political discussions, there is still a lack of popular understanding of the issues involved. Settler-colonialism is, ironically, understood within the framework of the ways of thinking brought by the European ruling classes to the Americas. By extension, the conceptions of decolonization are similarly limited. Although the transition from analyzing psychological or “discursive” decolonization to analyzing literal, concrete colonization has been extremely important, it requires some clarifications. ....
In voting on June 6, Pedro Castillo, candidate of the Peru Libre (Free Peru) political party, defeated three-time presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori. ....
Photo: Closing rally of Pedro Castillo's presidential campaign. Oversized pencils were a symbol of Castillo's campaign, representing his demand to rew ....