A New Stage of Insurgencies: Latin American Popular Movements, the Gwangju Uprising, and the Occupy Movement.

The article discusses the occurrence of grassroots insurgencies around the world as of November 2012, with a focus on popular uprisings in Latin America and Gwangju, South Korea, and the international occupy protest movement. Topics include the mobilization of mass strikes by indigenous peoples, reactions against neoliberalism and its economic austerity measures, and student protests and insurgencies. Additional information is presented on attempts to privatize natural resources in Peru and Ecuador, ethnocentrism, and direct democracy.