Argentina
Content about class struggle and events in Argentina.
1914-2001: A people's history of Argentina
A working class history of Argentina from its "golden era" through Peronism, military dictatorship up until the uprising of 2001.
This article is an extract of Picket and pot banger together: class recomposition in Argentina? by Aufheben
Militant on the Falklands War, 1982
Extract from an article by Militant (now the Socialist Party) demonstrating their support for Britain in the Falklands War.
Militant International Review No22, June 1982 wrote:
The labour movement should be mobilised to force a general election to open the way for the return of a Labour government to implement socialist policies at home and abroad. Victory of a socialist government in Britain would immediately transform the situation in relation to the Falklands.
Subway workers hold 'no fare' protest and strike in Buenos Aires
This week employees on the Buenos Aires subway freed turnstiles for two hours in a move to press the government to grant legal status to their recently created trade union as well as taking strike action.
According to Argentine law only one union on each trade or activity can be granted legal status and therefore, participate in wage bargaining or legally call for a strike.
The Need of Our Own Project by Organisación Socialista Libertaria (Argentina)
A short piece advocating specific organization ("Especifismo") from an Argentinian group.
We that believe in the construction of a libertarian political organization, of an anarchism that as a
Buela, Juana Rouco 1889-1969
A short biography of Juana Rouco Buela, formidable fighter for women's liberation and anarchism
“At the age of eighteen, the police considered me to be an element dangerous for the tranquillity of capitalism and the State”.
Wildcat grows Argentine airport strike
Check-in workers in Buenos Aires walked out after passengers stranded by a baggage handlers strike rioted on Saturday.
Xinhuanet reported that travellers tossed computers in the air, shoved security guards and attacked ticketing counters at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza international airport Saturday after Aerolineas Argentinas suspended most of its flight there.
Argentina: Teachers strike in memory of colleague
On October 5th there were mass walkouts nationwide by teachers in state and private schools in memory of a colleague who had been killed by police.
Carlos Fuentealba died in April after being struck by a tear gas grenade fired from almost point blank range. The attack took place after Jorge Sobisch, the then Governor of Neuquen and current presidential candidate, ordered police to crack down on a protest march by striking teachers.
Working class protest, popular revolt and urban insurrection in Argentina: the 1969 Cordobazo
Detailed background, sequence of events and sociological analysis of the 1969 general strike and riot in Cordoba Argentina.
Working class protest, popular revolt, and urban insurrection in Argentina: the 1969 Cordobazo James P. Brennan
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Soto, Antonio, 1897-1963
A short biography of Spanish anarchist Antonio Soto, who was heavily involved in the Argentinian revolutionary movement and the FORA in the 1920s.
“You are workers, labourers, continue the strike for final victory, for a new society where there will be neither poor nor rich, a society without weapons or uniforms, where reigns joy, respect for the human being, where nobody will have to kneel because there will be neither those in cassocks nor superiors”
- Antonio Soto at the last general assembly of the Patagonian strikers.
Argentina: What is the MTD 'Anibal Veron'?
2003 organizational document of a now defunct national coordination of unemployed workers assemblies. The majority of the assemblies are now integrated in the Frente Popular Darío Santillán.
Agreements drawn up collectively by the unemployed workers movements of Lanus, "Dario Santillan" De Alte, Brown, San Telmo y Lugano de Capital Federal, Berriso and "Oscar Barrios" de Jose C. Paz, members of the Unemployed Workers Movement "Anibal Veron"
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