An interview with a piquetera - "If the aggression is globalised then the resistance needs to be globalised."
In June and July of 2003, two Argentinian women toured the UK to talk about the wave of social change which is sweeping their home country. Graciela and Neka talked about the Piquetero movement. which has seen unemployed workers taking control of over 200 factories and organising a direct democracy through neighbourhood assemblies. The movement has also organised road blockades in resistance to the neo-liberal reforms which are leaving many Argentinians unemployed, The tour was organised by the Argentina Autonomist Project (AAP), an group which seeks to educate people around the world about the struggles in Argentina. I met up with Graciela at the Glasgow event, to find out.
Internationalism series – Experiences in South America
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Dec 2 2020 07:17
We interviewed a comrade from Germany who has been following events and movements in South America. She works as a postal worker for DHL. The initial introduction to the series can be found here: https://letsgetrooted.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/working-class-internationalism-series/
The unemployed in the popular uprising of December, 2001: Report from Greater Buenos Aires
Submitted by QQ on Dec 3 2017 21:22
This moving account reveals some prominent facts behind the scenes of the December 2001 uprising in Argentina. Cacho's account reveals the political ideas and tactics of the unemployed, who throughout the 90s had managed to obtain public attention and increasing legitimacy in demanding government assistance by disrupting automobile traffic on highways across the entire territory. The piqueteros - the common label of various similar organizations - had coordinated their actions, not just among themselves, but also with the more traditional leftist movements, unions, and political parties.
Communisation vs Spheres - Bernard Lyon
2011 text by Bernard Lyon, the second part of 'The Suspended Step of Communisation'.
"Occupying, Resisting, Producing" Argentine Workers Take Over Abandoned Factories - Andres Gaudin
A contemporary article on the then recent wave of factory occupations in Argentina follow the collapse of neo-liberal economy.
Interview with Cuadernos de Negación
English translation of a written interview with Argentinian communist group, Cuadernos de Negación (Negation Notebooks), discussing the recent history of the country's workers' movement, including the 1969 Cordobazo and the 2001 uprising, and prospectives for the future.
Horizontalism: Voices of popular power in Argentina - Marina Sitrin
Submitted by working class s... on Nov 27 2013 00:25
Horizontalism is an oral history of the exciting transformations taking place since the popular rebellion. It is a story of cooperation, vision, creation and discovery. It is a history told by people in the various autonomous social movements, from the occupied factories, neighborhood assemblies, arts and independent media collectives, to the indigenous communities and unemployed workers movements.
Worker Occupations in Argentina
A paper by Maurizio Atzeni looking at the degeneration of four co-operatives that arose during the upheavels in Argentina 2001.
The neighborhood is the new factory
An article by Liz Mason-Deese on the unemployed movement in Argentina since 2001.
From Crisis to Cooperatives: Lessons from Argentina’s Cartoneros
Submitted by Reddebrek on Sep 12 2012 22:31
A special Labor day (United States) documentary by Free Speech Radio News (FSRN) about the Argentine 2001 financial crisis and the rise of Cartoneros "Cardboard People" Cooperatives and the challenges they face.
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