Abstract

NIETO, Agustín. Class struggle and libertarian activism in the 30s ¿rule or exception?: Chronicle of the strike movement of port stevedores in the south east of Buenos Aires. Av. Cesor [online]. 2019, vol.16, n.21, pp.175-198. ISSN 1514-3899.

Argentinean working-class historiography has dealt with the events of the working class in the center of our country, in particular the provinces of litoral and the pampeana region. This has been carried out by giving especial emphasis to these events in the city of Buenos Aires since it is were most of the union worker organizations and political epicenter of the country reside. Therefore, this perspective has resulted in disregarding experiences taking place in small towns or involving non-hegemonic working-class factions. In such cases, the concept of “hegemony” is usually referring exclusively to a national political-organizational dimension. Through a chronicle about the strike movement in 1932, we have looked into the singularities that the experiences of organization and working-class struggle presented in the port cities of the southeast of Buenos Aires. Furthermore, we have revised some of today’s historiographical “common sense” regarding political left and working class studies during the interwar period. Our documentary corpus is composed by news published by commercial, union and political publications. We also made use of institutional reports and official statistics from that time.

Keywords : Anarchism; Working class; Ports; Strikes.

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