Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay, 1956-76 Araiza Kokinis Troy Andreas

A Cold War-era study of Latin American anarchism in action.Araiza Kokinis's study of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU) broadens our understanding of the Cold War-era political landscape beyond the capitalism-communism and Old Left-New Left binaries that dominate the historiography of the epoch.Arguably the most impactful anarchist organization globally in the Cold War era, the FAU viewed everyday people as revolutionary protagonists and sought to develop a popular counter-subjectivity through accumulating experiences directly challenging the market and the state. Their slogan was "create popular power," and their praxis differed from nationalist strains of The FAU argued that everyday people transformed into revolutionary subjects through the regular practice of collective direct action in labor unions, student organizations, and neighborhood councils.