Anarcho-Bolsheviks? Alianza Libertaria Argentina in argentinian mass movement, education and anarchism (1923-1932).

• Grant number: 25/10165-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: November 01, 2025
• End date: October 31, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education
• Principal Investigator: Leandro de Oliveira Galastri
• Grantee: Ivan Thomaz Leite de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Marília. Marília , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research seeks to reconstruct the trajectory and ideological conceptions, strategies and tactics of the Alianza Libertaria Argentina (ALA), an anarchist organization founded in 1923, the first in the southern country. This organization was marginalized by historiography because it was isolated by the dominant currents of Argentine anarchism, which accused the ALA of being an organization guided by Soviet communism. It is in this spirit that the sector organized around the newspaper La Protesta created the term "anarcho-Bolshevik" as a way of disqualifying the alliance's militancy.The research will discuss how the Russian Revolution and Maximalism influenced the different groups that started ALA, how this influence was incorporated, seeking to characterize the organization's political-ideological doctrine, its organizational structure and political conception. We will also address the strategic conception that this organization brought to the mass movement, acting in the Unión Sindical Argentina (USA), in urban unions and contributing to the organization of rural workers' unions. Another important issue to be addressed is the organization's position on the issue of education, particularly in the tactical discussion between the creation of modern schools independent of the structure of public (state) education or the dispute over this through the teachers' union that was created with the direct collaboration of anarchist militants.We will reflect on the relationship between political organization and anarchism, challenging the limits of the idea that political organizations in anarchist circles are expressions of the importation of external doctrines and that anarchism is essentially anti-organizational. We will also delve deeper into the doctrinal characterization and organizational structure of the Argentine Libertarian Alliance. Finally, we will pay special attention to the issue of education, investigating two possible anarchist approaches to the issue: the construction of modern schools parallel to official educational institutions and the defense of self-management of public education through the Liga de Maestros, a teachers' union created with the support of Argentine anarchists. (AU)