Adolfo Gilly

First English-language anthology of one of Latin America’s pre-eminent Marxist writers The Argentine-born writer Adolfo Gilly has directly observed many of Latin America’s most dramatic events, from the Bolivian Revolution of the 1950s and Cuba during the Missile Crisis to the guerrilla wars of Central America and Mexico’s Zapatista uprising. Paths of Revolution presents the first representative selection from across his extensive body of work, collecting close-quarters reportage, sharp political analyses and reflections on art and letters. A living link between the New Left of the 1960s and the Pink Tide of recent decades, Gilly once described the twentieth century as a series of lightning flashes which can illuminate our present-day predicament. The essay form is where he fully comes into his own, covering a truly impressive range of topics and places. This collection draws out the continuities within one of the world’s more vibrant and politically successful left traditions. In the introduction, Tony Wood (author of Russia Without Putin) offer an overall portrait of Gilly’s life and work.

Selected Essays

Paths of Revolution

The classic account of the mexican revolution from the acclaimed author. First published in Spanish in 1971, "The Mexican Revolution" has been praised by Mexico's Nobel Prize-winning author Octavio Paz as a notable contribution to history and is widely recognized as a seminal account of the Mexican Revolution. Written during the author's time as a political prisoner in the famous penitentiary of Lecumberri in Mexico, it sold thousands of copies in its first edition, becoming widely accepted as the official textbook by history faculties in Mexico despite Gilly's continued incarceration. It has gone through more than thirty editions in Mexico and been translated into French and Greek. This is a comprehensively revised and updated edition of the original text with a foreword by Latin American history scholar Friedrich Katz and a new preface to the English edition by the author. A true "people's history," "The Mexican Revolution" is a stirring, bottom-up account of an event whose reverberations are still felt throughout Latin America and the rest of the world. What you didn't know about the Mexican Revolution: - In December 1914 the peasant armies of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata conquered Mexico City and established a peasant government there. - Mexico's 1917 constitution granted the right of peasants and peasant communities to own the land they tilled. - Mexico's 1917 constitution established an eight-hour workday, a minimum wage, the rights to establish unions and to collectively bargain, and a right to strike--rights not seen in the United States until the 1930s and later.

The Mexican Revolution

Frantz Fanon

Haakon Chevalier

L'An V de la Révolution Algérienne. Studies in a Dying Colonialism ... With an Introduction by Adolfo Gilly. Translated ... by Haakon Chevalier

Este relato de la vida de Felipe Ángeles es una reivindicación de la escritura de la historia como género literario. Vívida, emocionante, llena de penetración y amplia en su perspectiva, esta biografía no retrata solamente los hechos de una vida, sino los saberes, las convicciones, los sueños y las figuras ideales que la inspiraron. Describe también ese gran movimiento de las mentes y los cuerpos que es una revolución, a cuya dinámica Ángeles supo subordinarse, a cuya marea ascendente se unió, con comprensión y respeto, sin someter su pensamiento ni abdicar de sus propios modos de estar en el mundo. Dos veces enviado al destierro por resultar incómodo a sus colegas del Ejército Federal, combatió a los zapatistas en Morelos sin éxito y sin saña; estuvo junto a Madero hasta las últimas horas de la Decena Trágica; se apartó con desagrado de Carranza y sus políticos, y halló en cambio su lugar al servicio de las tropas tumultuarias e indóciles de la División del Norte, a las cuales colaboró a llevar a sus más grandes triunfos hasta la toma de Zacatecas, punto culminante que decidió el destino de la Revolución mexicana. Militar porfiriano que se convirtió en estratega de Francisco Villa, la singularidad de Felipe Ángeles se muestra en cada uno de sus rasgos de carácter –compasión, reserva, dignidad, sentido crítico, determinación, valentía–, en sus costumbres disciplinadas, en su particular noción de la lealtad y de la desobediencia necesaria, en su visión científica de la guerra aunada al ideal romántico de vida heroica y bella muerte. De tal héroe peculiar da cuenta esta biografía, minuciosa y exacta, que se lee como una apasionante novela.

Adolfo Gilly

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