SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA: A DEBATES

Abstract

This article proposes to analyse the social composition, platform of demands, and the form of action taken by certain social movements that have appeared recently on the Latin-American political scene. These movements were chosen because of their political dimension: all have, in their own way, a political project and produce political impacts. Even with the diversity of projects and the different impacts produced, and despite the heterogeneity of the social base mobilized in each movement, this article seeks to point out the common elements and the possibility of finding a unity in distinct movements. This unity is thought of from its anti-neoliberal ideology and from the concept of the working classes.