Nahuel Moreno (and collaborators) After the Cordobazo CEHuS Centro de Estudios Humanos y Sociales Editorial CEHuS Page A Nahuel Moreno (and collaborators) After the Cordobazo (1969–1975) English translation: Daniel Iglesias Cover and interior design: Daniel Iglesias Cover photo: Agustin Tosco leads the column of Light & Power union workers, Cordoba, May 1969 www.nahuelmoreno.org www.uit-ci.org www.izquierdasocialista.org.ar Copyright by CEHuS , Centro de Estudios Humanos y Sociales Buenos Aires, 2020 [email protected] CEHuS Centro de Estudios Humanos y Sociales Table of Contents Foreword: In the footsteps of the Cordobazo ............................................. 1 Balance and prospects of Nahuel Moreno and the Trotskyism of PRT-La Verdad ......1 Foreword to the Second Spanish Edition (1972) ......................................... 8 Foreword to the first Spanish Edition (1971) ............................................ 10 June 1969 Theses on the national situation after the great general strikes .............. 12 The revolutionary rise has began .............................................................................12 The meaning of the Cordobazo ................................................................................13 Economic development in recent years ...................................................................14 The situation of the government and the bourgeoisie ............................................15 Down with the government! For a workers’ and popular government! ..................16 The fight for democratic rights: For free and sovereign elections! For a Constituent Assembly! .................................................................................................................17 Grassroots Congress to reunify the union movement! For a single petition from the workers’ movement! Down with the paritaries by union! .......................................18 The key to the situation: achieve class-struggle leadership at the factory level .....19 From the fight against the comptrollers and fees to the revolutionary University .21 The fight against imperialism goes from the breaking of the pacts to the defence of socialist Cuba .................................................................................................................................23 Cordoba shows us the way .......................................................................................23 The new vanguard and the role of the party ...........................................................24 La Verdad No 207, 29 December 1969 1969, year of the workers’ awakening ...................................................... 26 We entered a pre-revolutionary stage .....................................................................26 From May to December ............................................................................................27 Ongania’s policy .......................................................................................................27 How to give to take away .........................................................................................28 Ongania and his bosses ............................................................................................28 The workers’ movement, the final arbiter of the outcome ......................................30 Grouping and strengthening the new vanguard .....................................................31 The historical need for the party ..............................................................................32 Editorial CEHuS Page C January 1970 Theses on the national situation ............................................................... 33 I .................................................................................................................................33 II ................................................................................................................................34 III ...............................................................................................................................34 IV ..............................................................................................................................35 V ...............................................................................................................................37 VI ..............................................................................................................................38 VII .............................................................................................................................39 La Verdad, No 215, 20 April 1970 The government crisis continues .............................................................. 41 Huerta’s resignation .................................................................................................41 The resignations of Raggio and Anchorena .............................................................42 Señoranz’s resignation .............................................................................................42 Frondizism calls for unity against the economic team and the government ...........42 It repeatedly points out that this means the final condemnation of government policy. .......................................................................................................................43 August 1970, Report to the Central Committee (CC) [The fall of Ongania] ................................................................................. 44 The new nationalism ................................................................................................44 Peronism and the new bourgeois sectors ................................................................45 The economic situation ............................................................................................46 The trade union situation .........................................................................................46 November 1970 The Levingston government ..................................................................... 48 The Argentine and Latin American revolutionary rise .............................................49 Changes in the national economy ............................................................................49 Imperialist penetration ............................................................................................50 Changes in the national bourgeoisie .......................................................................51 The revival of bourgeois nationalism .......................................................................53 The government’s political-economic plan is the plan of the developmentalist bourgeoisie ..............................................................................................................54 The rise of the workers’ movement will have the final say ......................................54 Page D www.nahuelmoreno.org La Verdad, No 250, 13 January 1971 The workers’ rise determined the national situation of 1970 ................... 56 The character of the year 1970 ................................................................................56 Urban guerrillas and terrorism are incorporated into national life ..........................56 A colonised country ..................................................................................................57 The workers’ struggle stirs the hornet’s nest ...........................................................58 Intentions and reality ...............................................................................................59 How to build a working-class alternative .................................................................60 La Verdad, No 250, 13 January 1971 1971: Let’s forge a leadership for the struggle ......................................... 62 The moments of 1970 ..............................................................................................63 The crisis of the bureaucracy has deepened ............................................................64 Leaderships for the struggle ....................................................................................65 Tendencies and party ...............................................................................................66 La Verdad, No 257, 30 March 1971 No trust in Lanusse .................................................................................... 68 The hour of “The Hour of the People” ......................................................................69 Quo Vadis Rucci? ......................................................................................................70 The ultra-left sects in retreat ....................................................................................70 For a party of the working class and popular sectors ..............................................71 La Verdad, No No 260, 20 April 1971 Lanusse and Peron, a single heart? ........................................................... 72 What does Peronism mean today? ...........................................................................72 Why is Peron considering a return? ..........................................................................73 La Verdad No 279, 1 September 1971 Sitrac-Sitram Congress: a path has opened .............................................. 75 The opportunity to know each other 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