Politics of Indigenous resistance and class-struggle -- Indigenous insurgency, working-class struggle, and popular cultures of resistance and opposition, 1781-1964 -- Authoritarianism, democracy, and popular struggle, 1964-85 -- Neoliberal Counter-Revolution, 1985-2000 -- Left-Indigenous insurrectionary cycle, 2000-3 -- Red October: Gas-War, 2003 -- Carlos Mesa and a divided country: left-Indigenous and eastern-Bourgeois blocs in the second Gas-War of May and June 2005 -- Combined-oppositional consciousness -- Conclusion: Bolivia, Venezuela, and the Latin-American left
Summary
In the opening years of this century, a left-Indigenous insurrectionary cycle in Bolivia mounted the most radical challenge to neoliberalism in the Western hemisphere. This book provides a Marxist and Indigenous-liberationist analysis of this revolutionary epoch and is historical context
