Uruguayan Anarchist Federation

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Uruguayan Anarchist Federation
Federación Anarquista Uruguaya
International affiliationAnarkismo.net
Website
http://federacionanarquistauruguaya.uy/

Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (Federación Anarquista Uruguaya, commonly known as FAU) is a

Especifismo.[1]

History

The FAU began with the collection of ideological and cultural traditions contributed by

fascist persecution during the Spanish Civil War and World War II
. The organization was involved, from the outset, in social struggles around the country, working on the strengthening of trade unions and advancing towards workers' unity.

In the early 1960s, the FAU took part in the structure of the “Coordinator” (Spanish: El Coordinator), the predecessor of the Tupamaros. When the MLN-T emerged from it in 1966, the federation did not elect to join the new organization. However, Jorge Zabalza, a member of the FAU, did join the Tupamaros in an individual capacity.[2]

In 1967 the Uruguayan government ordered the dissolution of the FAU, which went underground. Its activity was restructured according to the new situation, and they began to develop a clandestine network for the printing and distribution of propaganda. In 1968, the FAU decided to create a mass front called the Student Workers' Resistance (Spanish: Resistencia Obrero Estudiantil, ROE), which organized neighborhood militants, labor unionists and combative students into a popular front.[3]

Flag of the Thirty-Three Orientals.

The state of emergency and the militarization of political life also led the FAU to develop an armed structure. The Popular Revolutionary Organization-33 (

Libertarian Marxist group sympathetic to the Cuban Revolution. The PVP would later abandon anarchism for electoralism and became part of the Broad Front.[4][5]

Cornered by the repression of Uruguayan and Argentine special services, about fifty FAU members were tortured, killed and disappeared, while others were sentenced to long years in prison. When the

Federação Anarquista Gaúcha (FAG), the Federação Anarquista Cabocla (FACA), the Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro (FARJ) in Brazil, the Anarchist Federation of Rosario (FAR); and the underground Argentine organization AUCA (Rebel).[6]

Today their social efforts cover broad sectors: organizing in trade unions, schools, parental councils and neighborhood associations, protecting the environment, writing to prisoners, and building a social housing cooperative. They also run a printing press, 6 community radio stations, 4 athenaeums, 3 libraries and built a Solidarity and Mutual Support Space.

See also

  • List of anarchist organizations

References

  1. OCLC 47639698
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  2. OCLC 4912982294
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  3. S2CID 210552745
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  4. OCLC 5543743022
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  5. OCLC 5964460044
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  6. OCLC 123551385
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Further reading

External links
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