Federación Obrera Regional Argentina (FORA)

Argentinian anarchist workers' union the Federación Obrera Regional Argentina (Argentina Regional Workers' Federation; FORA).

Slippery slopes (the anarchists in Spain) - Manuel Azaretto

Written in 1939 by a member of FORU (Regional Workers Federation of Uruguay), this book—a scathing…

Revolutionary preparation: an excerpt from the FORA

This article is a translated excerpt from Santillan's history of the FORA named the FORA: ideology and trajectory of the revolutionary workers…

What is a Resistance Society?

Resistance Societies are not well known in the English speaking world, though they were among the most important building blocks and experiences…

General principles and means of struggle of the American Continental Association of Workers

This is an excerpt from the declarations of the American Continental Association of…

Means of struggle - Emilio Lopez Arango

A translation of Lopez Arango, theorist of the FORA, on the question of industrial organization and industrial unionism. Here he defends the FORA…

Lucha de clases y lucha social

Un texto corto de 1924 sobre el concepción de lucha de clases en anarquismo. Teodoro Antilli era un militante de FORA.

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Social revolution and revolutionary organisation: The FORAist alternative - Vadim Grayevski

Machine translation of a short article by Vadim Grayevski of KRAS-IWA, on the…

Political leadership or ideological orientation of the workers movement

This is a translation of a piece by Emilio Lopez Arango on the issue of the orientation and leadership of the unions. Lopez Arango explores the roles of revolutionaries, and at the center of his argument is how the process of struggling, and all the elements created therein, should drive our political perspective.

The resistance to capitalism - Emilio Lopez Arango

This is the translation of the first chapter of an essay in an out of print text by Emilio Lopez Arango, one of the premier theorists of the…

Syndicalism and Anarchism

This piece has a number of intriguing ideas that were circulating in the FORA. Lopez Arango counterposes a static view of unions and anarchism to…

"Fighting For Ourselves " - lots to learn, a few things to criticize

"Fighting For Ourselves", a new book by which SolFed explains it s view on anarchosyndicalism,…

"El sainete porteño" and Argentine reality: The tenant strike of 1907

An article by Donald S. Castro on Nemesio Trejo's theatre production Los inquilinos (The Tenants) and the 1907 rent strike in Buenos Aires, Argentina on which it is based.