The Agrarian Question and the Peasant Movement in Colombia: Struggles of the National Peasant Association, 1967–1981

by Leon Zamosc

• ISBN13: 9780521031387
• ISBN10: 0521031389
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In this book, Leon Zamosc provides an account of the history of ANUC and its struggle on three main fronts: for land, for the defence of the colonists, and for the protection of smallholders. The main focus of the book is on the land struggles. Professor Zamosc adopts a structural perspective, examining the agrarian contradictions that propelled the peasant struggles, the changing relationship between the peasant movement and the state, and the political and ideological content of the peasant challenge. He explores these issues in the light of the shifting patterns of class alignments and antagonisms that marked the rise and decline of peasant radicalism during the 1970s, and offers some suggestions about the significance of ANUC's struggles for the understanding of peasant movements in general.

Table of Contents

List of tables, figures and maps

Foreword

Foreword by UNRISD

Acknowledgments

List of abbreviations

Introduction

The agrarian question in Colombia

Reformism and the beginnings of the peasant movement

The radicalization of ANUC and the great waves of land invasions

Counterreform

The contradictory influences of peasant politicization

Concessions and repressive escalation

The new occupational alternatives and the issue of the rural proletariat

Partial repeasantization and the question of the new peasant settlements

Final crisis and clientelist regression of ANUC

Overview and final remarks

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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