FORA

Soto, Antonio, 1897-1963

Antonio Soto in Río Gallegos.

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.

Revolutionary unionism in Latin America - the FORA in Argentina

FORA members demonstrating

Excellent pamphlet outlining the origins and development of the Argentinian working class movement, focussing in particular on the anarcho-syndicalist FORA (Federación Obrera Regional Argentina).

REVOLUTIONARY UNIONISM IN LATIN AMERICA
The FORA in Argentina

ASP LONDON & DONCASTER 1987

PREFACE
Anarchism is the philosophy of a new social order based on liberty, and unrestricted by man-made laws; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.

Anarchism in Argentina, 1897-1950

A short article with some information about anarchism in Argentina at its height in the early 20th century.

1917-1921: Generalised revolutionary struggle in Patagonia - ICG

Still from the 1974 film, Rebellion in Patagonia - Héctor Olivera

An article by the Internationalist Communist Group (ICG/GCI) about the events in Patagonia 1917-21.

Workers' Memory, from Communism #4

"This signifies the rashest defiance of everything that stands for law and order and the worship of the Homeland, which is the worship of institutions under whose protection groups of more or less genuine workers attempt to vent their hatred and class resentment with unspeakable abuse" said the bourgeois of the "Union", 1921.

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