Open AccessThe «chispismo»: a communist dissidence in the 1920s.
Author(s) -
Alejandro Belkin,
Diego Ceruso
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
latinoamerikanskij istoričeskij alʹmanah
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-0282
pISSN - 2305-8773
DOI - 10.32608/2305-8773-2020-28-1-113-131
Subject(s) - communism , politics , newspaper , political science , political economy , movement (music) , economic history , soviet union , connection (principal bundle) , sociology , law , history , engineering , aesthetics , art , structural engineering
In the 1920s, the Communist Party of Argentina (PC) went through three major crises that ended in split processes. This article analyzes the origins and development of the second of these factional struggles, which led to the formation of a new political organization, the Com-munist Workers Party. The dissident fraction was called "chispistas" in reference to the name of its newspaper. We are interested in studying the links that the new party established with the labor movement and its union structures. The intention is to contribute to a better under-standing of the communist experience and to contribute to the recon-struction of the history of the Argentine left in its connection with the labor movement.