Argentina 2001

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.

No Future: the sinking of a country into oblivion

Many of you might evoke riots and clashes with the police if one were to utter the word Argentina, as well as recuperated factories ran by workers, popular assemblies, demonstrations, and alternatives against the banking system and politicians.

An account of setting up workplace assemblies

Submitted by Steven. on Nov 10 2006 17:29

A short account by Raul, a ceramics worker, of how workers won the right to hold mass assemblies in the factory during work time.

Zanon factory occupation - interview with workers

Submitted by Steven. on Nov 10 2006 10:07

An excellent set of interviews conducted with workers at the worker-run Zanon ceramics factory, occupied at the time of the Argentine uprising of 2001. It includes historical and background information.

Argentina 2001 uprising Treason pamphlet

Submitted by bastarx on Oct 8 2006 02:26

This pamphlet was produced to make available information about the massive working class revolts in Argentina in 2001-2. These struggles were probably the most important action of the global proletariat in recent years. In time what happened in Argentina will come to be seen as an event of similar importance to May 1968 in France when 10 million workers went on wildcat strike for three weeks.

Occupied Bauen Hotel - the struggle continues

Submitted by Steven. on Jan 5 2006 14:06

If this story sounds vaguely familiar, it may be because Labourstart ran a campaign last year in support of workers in Argentina who, faced with a mismanaged business about to close decided to take matters into their own hands.