El Cafe Y El Movimiento Campesino

In: Latin American perspectives, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 53-83

Abstract

This section offers two perspectives on the class struggle in the Colombian countryside. The first is a document of historic importance, by the Asociación Nacional de Usuarios Campesinos (ANUC) of the coffee industry. ANUC is an association where all three major political lines of the Colombian left are represented. At the time this article was first published (June 1972 in Uno en Dos ) ANUC was supported by various organizations, among them the Communist Party, MOIR, and the Trotskyist-oriented Tendencia Socialista. This article analyzes classes in the countryside, sharecropping, and U.S. imperialism in the market for coffee. It also examines the policies of the bourgeoisie with respect to the coffee industry and gives an analysis of the peasant movements. The second article gives a different view of Colombian agriculture, focusing on various aspects of Colombian agriculture. The author, William James, is an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York, Potsdam. He evaluates the role of different forms of the social relations of production in the Colombian countrvside.