Preview of Life in Communism 2.1. South American Trilogy 3. Gangster, Guerrillero, Revolutionary, by Carla O’Gallchobhair. It is May-June of Year 19 of the Revolution, 2021 being Year Zero. Comrade Miguel is launching into an account of his life as an illustration of the trajectory of Latin Americans from poor, powerless and misled victims of colonialist, capitalist, and imperialist oppression to happy, proud and purposeful revolutionaries, while unresolved issues of underground capitalist exploitation are still plaguing his home region. Our Illyrian research brigades hope they can help resolve some of these problems before they return home.

Preview of Life in Communism 2.1. South American Trilogy 2. The Little Monk and the Pope, by Carla O’Gallchobhair. It is April-May of Year 19 of the World Revolution (2021 being Year Zero). The Illyrians are looking forward to comrade Marianne’s long-awaited presentation on the interrelationships between Catholicism, Communism, and Imperialism, taking examples mainly from the Latin American experience, when chilling news from Rome reminds them that the obscurantist forces of the past are  still to be reckoned with.

Preview of Life in Communism 2.1. South American Trilogy 1. Y los pueblos del mundo responden…, by Carla O’Gallchobhair. It is March-April of Year 19 of the World Revolution (where 2021 is Year 0). After their latest adventures in the Amazone, the Pampa, and in Outer Space, comrades Jean-Fidel, Lénina, Jean, Miguel, Claudia, and others are in Cumbrecita for more research on regrowing and regreening desert, mountains, and  rainforest. Yet, unfortunately, obscure forces are still at work forcing the poor campesinos and rainforest hunter-gatherers, most of them Indios, to enter in ruinous exchange arrangements with old and new capitalists and oligarchs hostile to the revolution, and to make things worse, comrade Miguel’s uncle Ramón and his best friend Diego are deeply implicated. What to do?