Of particular interest to both students and activists are hard-to-find documents from the early years of the Communist International; a number of important and previously untranslated texts by Jose Carlos Mariategui, widely considered to be the most important Marxist thinker of the Americas; documents from the 1932 revolution in El Salvador, led by Farabundo Marti; and selections from the most dynamic elements of the Latin American left, including the Central American revolutionary movements, the Brazilian Workers Party, and liberation theologists. This is the first new anthology of writings by Latin American Marxists to appear in over 20 years. While including theoretical, sociological, historical and economic writings, the majority of the documents centre on political struggles throughout the continent. The anthology's method is historical, considering the evolution of Marxist thought in the context of social and political struggles which occurred during the different historical periods in Latin America, as well as in connection with developments in the international workers' movement.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 The Introduction of Marxism in Latin America: Socialism before 1914. Part 2 The Revolutionary Period: Documents of the Leninist Comintern (1921-23); The Impact of the October Revolution; The First Great Latin American Marxists; The Red Revolt in El Salvador (1932); The 1935 Insurrection in Brazil. Part 3 Stalinist Hegemony: The Popular Front in Latin America; the German-Soviet Pact and Its Repercussions in Latin America; Browderism and the Postwar Period; the Cold War; After the Twentieth Congress; Marxist Economic History. Part 4 The New Revolutionary Period: The Cuban Revolution; Castroism and Guevarism; Socialisms; The Communist Parties; Revolutionary Historiography; Trotskyism; New Tendencies.