Title: The agrarian question and the peasant movement in Colombia : struggles of the National Peasant Association, 1967-1981 /
Authors: Zamosc, León; Popular Participation Programme (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press ; United Nations Research Institute for Social Development,
Year: 1986
Subjects: Asociación Nacional de Usuarios Campesinos (Colombia); Land tenure Colombia; Peasant uprisings Colombia.; Peasants Colombia Political activity.; Peasants Political activity Colombia.
Abstract: A history of the peasant movement ANUC and its land struggles.
Contents: 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