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, by CONVERY David
On 25 June 2023, Hugo Blanco, the renowned Peruvian activist, champion of indigenous struggles and pioneer of ecosocialism, died in Sweden. Blanco organised and fought throughout his life, with tactics ranging from strikes, land occupations, and armed struggle, based on the principle of mass (…)
, by Nuevo Perú por el Buen Vivir, Sumaté-Nuevo Perú
Anger and indignation are growing, not only because of the rottenness of national prosecutor Benavides and the Congress with its corrupt compromises that have exacerbated the political crisis, but also because of the anti-democratic pardon of the Constitutional Court in favour of the murderer (…)
, by Fourth International
Hugo Blanco was born 15 November 1934 in Cusco, Peru. He died on 25 June 2023 in Uppsala, Sweden.
“Hugo Blanco has set an example.” So wrote Che Guevara about the period of Blanco’s life when he became a central organizer of the movement for land reform from below in La Convención and Lares, (…)
, by WALL Derek
Derek Wall celebrates the life of his friend and comrade Hugo Blanco.
Hugo Blanco, who died on Sunday 25th June [2023], was an almost mythical Peruvian revolutionary leader. I had the pleasure of working with him and it is fair to say all of us who met him found not a cold legend but a warm (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Blanco, the Peruvian revolutionary is dead. I met him once back in 1996 when my wife Sherry and I were living in Mexico City. It was an experience of magical realism.
One day, two German Trotskyists, a young couple in their late twenties living briefly in Mexico City, a pair whom we had met (…)
, by SUNDVALL Maria
Hugo Blanco, the Peruvian revolutionary, peasant leader, former member of parliament, fighter for the rights of indigenous people and for the environment, has died after a short period of acute illness. [1] He was born in 1934 in Cusco in Peru, in the indigenous heartland, and he constantly (…)
, by Correspondents l’Anticapitaliste
“Listen Peru, Paris is with you! Dina Assassin. The people reject you”, “Peru I love you, that‘s why I’m demonstrating”. These slogans resounded in the streets of Paris, between Châtelet and the Place de la République. They were raised by dozens of Peruvians, Latin Americans and French people on (…)
, by ESCALENTE Jorge, FUENTES Federico
With protests to demand early elections intensifying in Peru, a request by de facto president Dina Boluarte to bring them forward to December was rebuffed by the right-wing controlled Congress, on January 28.
Peru protest on Jan 19, 2023/ Protestors held the second ’March of the Four Nations’ (…)
, by DUTRA Israel
More than 20 years later, the Peruvian people have set in motion a mass struggle against a government that wants to assert itself with dictatorial elements.
At this very moment there is a very hard struggle going on in Peru. On one hand, a popular uprising, whose high point was the general (…)
, by Fourth International
Against the murderous government of Dina Boluarte!
New immediate elections and National Constituent Assembly!
In mid-December, large and combative mobilizations took to the streets and squares of the main cities of Peru, in an uprising motivated by the coup perpetrated on 7 December by the (…)
, by GLAVE Marisa, STEFANONI Pablo
The Peruvian president tried to shut down the Congress, which wanted to impeach him, in an almost inexplicable leap into the void. A few minutes later, he was arrested and replaced by the vice-president.
The Peruvian political crisis has taken a turn. After assuming power on July 28, 2021 as (…)
, by AGUIAR Thiago, DUTRA Israel
Last week ended with a bitter taste for Brazilian football fans. After an irregular campaign, the team went home early, leaving the dream of the hexa (Brazilian Championship) lost on penalties to Croatia. Also last week, the Lula government announced the first names of its ministry, with no (…)
, par Sumaté-Nuevo Perú
From the first moment that the right realised that it had been defeated at the polls in the second round of the general elections, this racist and classist political, business and media right would not accept that someone from the countryside, a rural teacher, a Quechua speaker who wears a hat (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers, Petition / Sign-on Letter
Intellectuals, social activists and public officials in Europe and Latin America have expressed their support for Hugo Blanco in the face of attacks by the extreme right in Peru. In less than 48 hours, more than two thousand people have signed a Manifesto in support of one of the historical (…)
, by RAPPAPORT Joanne
Hugo Blanco: A Revolutionary for Life. By Derek Wall. London: Merlin Press/Resistance Books, 2018, 143 pages, 9 plates. $25 paperback.
HUGO BLANCO IS probably best known for his work in the late-1950s and early 1960s in La Convención, a region near Cusco, Peru, where indigenous peasants eager (…)
, by REXHI Rajmonda , WEAVER Matthew
Invaders continue to seize land within the Chaparrí ecological reserve, one of Peru’s most biodiverse forests
Shortly after sunset, along an isolated stretch of highway leading out of a dusty hamlet in northern Peru, a band of five weary farmers clad in reflective neon vests and armed with (…)
, by RYDER Andrew
Andrew Ryder discusses We the Indians: The Indigenous Peoples of Peru and the Struggle for Land .
Hugo Blanco in the early seventies
Hugo Blanco is a figure of great significance for contemporary thought on revolutionary potential. His ideas and practical commitment straddles two great (…)
, by Socialist Resistance (Britain)
We the Indians: The indigenous peoples of Peru and the struggles for land, Hugo Blanco, Merlin Press/Resistance Books reviewed by Derek Wall.
Hugo Blanco led a peasant uprising in Peru for land rights in the early 1960s. A former leader of the Fourth International and a prominent ecosocialist, (…)
, by BOESTEN Jelke
Organisers get ready for a rally in Lima on August 13. ‘Ni Una Menos, Villa El Salvador, Lima
For many women in Peru, violence is a part of life . Daily harassment on the streets, sexual abuse of minors, trafficking of women and girls, and the sexual, physical, emotional, and economic abuse of (…)
, by ACUÑA de CHAUPE Máxima, BALCH Oliver, COLLYNS Dan
The story of Acuña – a subsistence farmer from Peru – is a lesson that even the world’s largest companies can be held to account by activists.
As owner of some of the largest and most lucrative gold mines in the world, Newmont Mining Corporation is used to getting its own way. Not in Peru (…)
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