ABSTRACT
This Issue takes up the complex questions of minority group oppression throughout the Americas-racism, national oppression, indigenismo, ethnicity and self-determination-questions which are bound up with but also distinct from class oppression. Although capitalist development is far advanced in Latin America compared with many other areas of the world, the attendant processes of proletarianization and cultural homogenization by no means have brought an end to the special oppression of minorities. Latin Americans have only to look north to U.S. society to see that, even in its most advanced stages of development. capitalism still reproduces and reinforces the special exploitation of minorities. Clearly, there must be solid material bases for the continued existence of oppressed minority communities within every nation.
