This special series brings together high-quality papers that explore themes discussed in the Radical Americas two day conference on 'Socialism and Indigeneity in the Americas'. The papers in this series focus on indigeneity in the history of the Americas, with articles on topics covering a broad spectrum from socialism and Indigeneity in the Mexican Southeast to historical approaches to political economy and Indigeneity.

The essays collected here attest to a range of enriching and complex encounters between the American Left (or Lefts) and Indigenous peoples across a wide geographic span, from the Andres to the US-Canada borderland. Intellectually enriching and politically daring, these diverse efforts to forge a socialist politics from the standpoint of those dispossessed by settler-colonialism left a complex legacy: one that is increasingly visible in places like Mexico, but largely invisibilised elsewhere such as in the US. This special issue places the convergence of Indigeneity and socialism in the Americas at the centre of some of major twentieth-century processes, including the Mexican Revolution, the US Popular Front movement, and the anticolonial repurposing of Marxism.

The ‘Socialism and Indigeneity in the Americas’ conference, which took place at UCL on Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th January 2024, consists of six panel discussions on 'Political Economy, Indigeneity and the Modern State', 'Historical Approaches to Political Economy and Indigeneity', 'Socialism and Indigeneity in the Mexican Southeast', 'Indigeneity and Class Struggle in the Andes', 'War of Position in the Andes?' and, 'Currents of Socialism and Indigeneity in Mexico'. The conference is available for online viewing on the Radical Americas conference page.

Articles are published open access and can be read freely online by anyone, please see the article list below.

Publication date: From May 2025.

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Editors

Dr. Owen Walsh University of Aberdeen, UK.
Dr Thomas Lindner Max Planck Institute, Germany.
Dr Nicholas Grant University of East Anglia, UK

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Article list

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Review

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