Abstract:

In this paper we reconstruct and analyze the clasista unionism congress held in the city of Córdoba in August 1971 at the initiative of the SITRAC and SITRAM unions. Based on the documents of the meeting, journalistic and political chronicles, and testimonies of the protagonists, we specify which were the unions and political forces that participated, the debates that took place and the results they arrived at, as well as its later evolution. In this way, we intend to show how, based on the example of the Fiat unions, the clasismo had been transformed into a union current of national scope, particularly linked to part of the new Marxist and Peronist revolutionary left. A heterogeneous and still weak space, which failed to formalize itself due to the differences between its components, but mainly due to the repression against SITRAC-SITRAM.

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