Prensa alternativa de organizaciones políticas de izquierda en los años 80 y 90 en el Ecuador. Caso periódico Lucha Proletaria

Abstract

The present research focused on a careful review of the publication Lucha Proletaria, an organ of diffusion of one of the political movements identified with the Marxist-Leninist left, the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, MIR (Revolutionary Left Movement). This publication was fundamentally oriented to readers who were part of the extensive Ecuadorian labour and trade union movement during the second half of the 70s and 80s. Its central argument was the dispute over the meaning of democracy in a country marked by dictatorial governments since the early 70s. The pages of Lucha Proletaria confronted the contents and practices of bourgeois, liberal and parliamentary democracy. Instead, they advocated for direct democracy that prioritizes the interests and demands of the working class, peasantry, and broader popular sectors, aligned with the historical emancipatory project led by the proletariat. This research follows a qualitative and descriptive approach and is part of the field of political communication studies.