Argentine workers take control of industry

The workers of the San Justo glassworks in Buenos Aires never thought about owning their company, until it went bankrupt four years ago.

It was just one of thousands of businesses that sank as Argentina's once prosperous economy went into meltdown, pushing almost half the population below the poverty line.

Today a new furnace where the red hot glass is melted is burning. The factory is one of more than 100 "recovered businesses" which are now putting themselves forward as an alternative business model for the country.

Picket and Pot Banger Together - Class recomposition in Argentina?

Aufheben analyse the Argentinian uprising of 2001 and its roots in neoliberal economic policies and the history of the region.

Reports on the Argentine movements over the last 12 months have been scattered between the issue of the national debt and the IMF, the struggles of the middle classes, the 'piqueteros' unemployed movement, and the generalised 'rejection of politics'. How do all these aspects fit together - do the various struggles ion Argentina constitute a proletarian attack against capital?

Maguid, Jacobo, 1907-1997

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A short biography of active Argentinian anarchist Jacobo Maguid.

Jacobo Maguid
Alias alias Macizo, alias Jacinto Cimazo, born 1907, died 1997

Mancebo, Benigno, 1906-1940

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A short biography of anarchist militant Benigno Mancebo, active in Argentina and Spain.

Born in Sanchorreja (Avila, Spain) in 1906 and died in Madrid in 1940 before a fascist firing squad.

From an anarchist family, he spent fifteen years (1908-1923) in the care of his grandmother and separated from his parents who had emigrated to the Americas.

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