ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the dynamics of the class struggle in Peru in the period 2000–2015. It defines the political character of the Peruvian governments since the beginning of the third millennium and describes the economic developments in the period 1980–2015. The chapter focuses on to the social and economic situation of the working population. It also focuses on to the class struggle in the countryside. As an example of this class struggle, concentrate on the vanguard of the resistance against mining capital, i.e. the indigenous and peasant-based social movements in the department of Cajamarca. The chapter analyse the weaknesses of the locally and/or regionally organized struggle against mining capital. The 'return' of the trade unions in the political and economic arena is obvious when people look at the evolution of the strike movement. Diminishing export values and stagnating FDI shows the crisis of the development model based on the extraction of the country's natural resources.
