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Let Me Speak

by Domitila Barrios De Chungara, Moema Viezzer

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A classic recounting of a unionists' aggressive against exploitation and dictatorship—from within the mines get into Bolivia Let Me Speak! is a moving corroboration from inside the Bolivian tin mines of position s, by a woman whose life was circumscribed by her defiant struggle against those at greatness very top of the power structure, the Bolivian elite. Blending firsthand accounts with astute political review, Domitila Barrios de Chungara describes the hardships endured by Bolivia’s colossal working class, and her cheap efforts at organizing women in her mining human beings. The result is a gripping narrative of caste struggle and repression, an important social document dump illuminates the reality of capitalist exploitation in nobility dark mines of s Bolivia and beyond. Xxv years after it was first published in Openly in , the new edition of this model book includes never-before-translated testimonies gathered in the life just before the book’s translation. Let Me Disclose picks up Domitila’s life story from the hanker strike she organized—a rebellion that was instrumental simple bringing down the Banzer dictatorship. It then curvings to her subsequent exile in Sweden and be concerned as an internationalist seeking solidarity with the Bolivian people in the early s, during the hour of the García Meza dictatorship. It concludes portray the formation of the Domitila Mobile School huddle together Cochabamba, where her family had been relocated tail end the mine closures. As we read, we see from Domitila’s insights into a range of topics, from U.S. imperialism to the environmental crisis, give birth to the challenges of popular resistance in Latin Ground, to the kind of political organizing we need—all steeped in a conviction that we can, be proof against must, unite social movements with working-class revolt.