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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 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 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 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 BLANCO Hugo
In the early 1960s, Hugo Blanco launched Peru’s first agrarian reform, as an initiative of self-organized campesinos in the valleys of La Convención and Lares in Cuzco department, where an oppressive feudalistic share-cropping system had been in place for generations. When this movement to take (…)
, by BLANCO Hugo
First of all, I want to express my gratitude to all individuals and institutions that, once they heard about my arrest, demanded my liberty. Your support was very important. I want to specially thank our Canadian friends, whose support has made it possible for Lucha Indigena still to be (…)
This morning, Hugo Blanco, ex peasant-leader and ever-present social activist, was arrested on orders of the court of Paruro, and taken to a cell in the court of Cusco. According to Peruvian law, senior citizens over the age of 70 should not be incarcerated. Mr Blanco is 73 years old and has (…)
, by GOMEZ Luis A.
October 1, 2008
Dear Readers:
Moments ago, we received information from Cuzco, Peru that police had detained veteran activist Hugo Blanco. We believe that the news deserved this rapid alert. Here is what the Periodico Lucha Indigena, the newspaper that Huga edits, is reporting:
This (…)
, by COURNOYER Phil
This brief biographical note was prepared as introduction or annex to articles written by Hugo Blanco and reproduced on ESSF website: The Epic Struggle of Indigenous Andean-Amazonian Culture and The “Indian Problem” in Peru: From Mariategui to Today.
Hugo Blanco was leader of the Quechua (…)
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