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Amid intensifying state repression, Colombia’s ELN imposes an ‘armed strike’
OLIVER DODD reports on the National Liberation Army's general strike backed up with guns
Masks are only used during photos as ELN militants leave the armed ranks after a period of three years and move on to various roles in social movements, trade unions and their communities
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FOR 72 hours in February, transport and industry across Colombia was severely impaired as militants lent the weight of their weapons to anti-neoliberal protesters.
Causing massive damage to capitalist accumulation, uniquely, the ELN’s aim was to persuade Colombia’s government and dominant classes to negotiate not with the insurgents themselves but with the labour movement.
Conceiving itself as an “armed resistance” rather than as a traditional, formal guerilla army oriented to taking power militarily, the ELN is not a typical armed socialist movement.
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