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dictatorship . This led to an escalation of class conscious conflicts in
Brazilian society . Quartim then precedes to make a class analysis of
Brazil . He describes the working class and the organization of workers'
struggles in 1968, the peasant struggles in the countryside, the role of
students in building a new vanguard, and the marginal sector . Quartim
then describes how the legal struggle was transformed into a revolutionary
war . The author describes the splits that took place on the left over
strategy and tactics, the preparation for armed actions and the first armed
actions . He then describes the role of rural guerrilla warfare and the
development of urban guerrilla warfare and
urban guerrilla organizations
in Brazil .
Quartim then describes the first two years of urban partisan
warfare, how urban guerrilla organizations were defeated, and their regroupment
perspectives for the future . 20
Carlos Nunez in The Tupamaros , begins by describing Uruguay, its size,
population and history . The author describes how the organizing of the
sugarcane workers movement which culminated in
the first cane workers
march organized by Raul Sendic . This was the genesis of the Tupamaros .
In July, 1963, ten years after Castro's attack on the Moncada Army garrison
in Cuba, a group of militants, headed by Senic, raided the Swiss Colony
Rifle Club and seized automatic rifles . This action was considered the
beginning of armed struggle in Uruguay . The Tupamaros (National Liberation
Movement) seemed to have become an organization after this event . At
first, the Tupamaros were part of the armed branch of the Socialist Party .
In 1964, the Tupamaros pulled more raids for arms, explosives, and bank
2D Joao Quartim, Dictatorship and Armed Struggle in Brazil (New York :
Monthly Review Press, 1971) .