THE ARGENTINE ANTIFASCIST MOVEMENT AND THE BUILDING OF A TEMPTING DOMESTIC APPEAL, 1922-46

BISSO, ANDRÉS

Rethinking Antifascism. History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present

Berghahn Books

Lugar: Oxford; Año: 2016; p. 133 - 151

This chapter attempts to present a survey on the history of the antifascist movement in Argentine from the Marcia su Roma and the installation of Mussolini as Italy´s Prime Minister to the electoral campaign of the Unión Democrática against the presidential candidature of Colonel Perón. As a country of powerful migrant reception, Argentina allows the use of international and local phenomena as interrelated points of chronological guidance. According to that, we will analyse in this text the history of antifascist groups coming from immigration and linked to those questions since the European circumstances, as well as the dynamics of construction of an actual Argentinean antifascist movement, capable of translating the antifascist-fascist discussion into the issues of local arena and producing thereby a relatively efficient mobilization against the dictatorships and the fraudulent governments established since the 1930 Coup d´état of General Uriburu.