In Defense of Marxism, journal of the tendency to which the heroic and precocious Malala Yousafzai adheres, runs the most in-depth and intelligent exploration I have seen in English of the Peruvian Marxist thinker José Carlos Mariátegui... "Mariátegui and the Permanent Revolution" by José Pereira. However, these obvious Trotskyists don't emphasize the point that Mariátegui was at best equivocal on the Trotsky-Stalin split, as evidenced in his 1929 essay on the topic, and explored (in Spanish) by one Rafael Herrera Robles in the monograph "Mariátegui, Trotsky y Stalin."

One of the alternative spaces mentioned in the presentation above, the ironically named "Salón Imperial" squat and community center in Lima's bohemian enclave of Quilca, was gutted in a mysterious fire Feb. 13 that left two dead. (La Republica) The center actually dates back to the left-wing Velasco regime of the late 1960s, when an old office building was turned over to the community. Through the subsequent conservative regimes, it has been held by various community groups on a more or less informal basis, tolerated if not officially permitted by the authorities. The lead group in control there in recent years has been the "Fonavistas," citizens who were swindled by the scandal-plagued housing fund FONAVI (akin to the forclosure crisis around Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the US), and are demanding reparations. The building operated a big communal kitchen that fed hundreds of local residents daily, and provided space for numerous activist groups, including the Avancemos anarchist collective, punk rock shows, etc.