Disagreements in the new Argentine left on the Trelew Massacre
The article focuses on the “Trelew Massacre”, a key event in Argentine leftist culture and political history in general. On the night of August 15, 1972, three armed organizations carried out an escape from Rawson Prison. The operation fails and six days later 16 of the escapees are shot. A broad po...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Historia
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RIHALC/article/view/45206 |
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on the “Trelew Massacre”, a key event in Argentine leftist culture and political history in general. On the night of August 15, 1972, three armed organizations carried out an escape from Rawson Prison. The operation fails and six days later 16 of the escapees are shot. A broad popular solidarity movement and a group of intellectuals, artists, magazines, books and pamphlets of the new left agree in establishing the executed militants as martyrs of the revolution. The article briefly reviews that movement and then stops at a reading of the escape and the massacre that was registered on the left without managing to become canonical. We address the treatment of Trelew carried out by a group of periodical publications that were part of the Maoist faction of the new Argentine left, namely: the monthly La Comuna, directed by David Viñas, the biweekly Desacuerdo, directed by Ricardo Nudelman, the cultural magazine Los Libros, directed by Héctor Schmucler, and the clandestine press Nueva Hora, organ of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and No Transar, spokesperson for Vanguardia Comunista. With this we seek to make the map and analysis of the positions that stirred the currents of the new left on the Trelew Massacre, the insurrectional processes and the representation of the working class more complex. |
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