Introduction: social and popular struggles in Colombia

In a country traversed by this serious economic and social crisis, the announcement of a tax reform targeting the middle and popular classes unleashed a revolt of a historical magnitude that started to change the scenario, opening challenges and questions about the country’s political future. The popular uprising has managed to block two of the main reforms and forced two ministers and the high commissioner for peace to resign, delegitimizing the government and its violence at the international level, opening up important processes of politicization, dispute, and subjectivation. Although the effects of the pandemic are crucial for understanding the uprising, the uprising’s deeper motives are linked to the historic structural violence of capital accumulation in the multiple territories that make up Colombia. Situating this uprising in the panorama of popular revolts in Latin America, we want to delve into the elements of the Colombian context and the emergence of new subjectivities through struggles (Gutiérrez Aguilar 2015) to contribute to an analysis of the challenges of political transformation