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I am highly interested in the history of the Colombian struggle: the FARC, the ELN, the current dissident movement and questions around its legitimacy and the peace process. But also other movements across Latin America, such as the Sandanistas and their fight against the Contras. Peru - namely the ML groups who the Gonzaloids fought against (i.e. Tupac Amaru Shakur Movement). Also good Marxist/ML critiques of the Shining Path given that pretty much everything I've read about them comes from bourgeois sources or from terminally online Maoists who seem to merely "support" the Shining Path to seem edgy or whatever, whereas there is almost universal agreement amongst tendencies that the Shining Path were reactionary, bloodthirsty lunatics.

But yeah, any good books on Latin American struggles are of interest but at the moment, I am looking to learn about Colombia and the revolutionary struggle there and the brutal role of imperialism in arming the far right "paramilitaries"/death squads (which reminds me of the arming of "loyalists" in the Irish Republican struggle covertly but the latter being on a microcosmic scale), also whether there is any legitimacy to the dissident movement in Colombia. As for the role of imperialism - the School of the Americas trained death squads etc. - books or articles on this generally would be of interest.

EDIT: Can a mod move this to history perhaps? Seems more suited there. I'm still looking through communities and getting a feel for the site.