ARCHIVOS, History of the Labor Movement and the Left
Year I - No. 1 - September 2012
The first issue of ARCHIVOS is published under the editorship and management of Hernán Camarero from University of Buenos Aires. A group of 14 instructors as University of Buenos Aires form the committee of editors and a group of 17 instructors from countries such as Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Argentina, and UK form the advisory council including Dr. Pablo Pozzi head of Argentinean Oral History Association and also Latin America Oral History Netweok.
ARCHIVOS is an Argentinean Spanish journal that covers issues related to labor history and the left and also a scientific journal of social, political, cultural and intellectual, which aims to promote research, review and updating of knowledge about the labor movement and the left, both nationally and internationally.
ARCHIVOS is open to scientific and academic contributions of authors from different social disciplines, both from a Marxist perspective as from other approaches that contribute to that purpose.
It is published twice a year, with external and anonymous refereeing. Contributions should be original and not being submitted simultaneously to any other publication evaluation. Signed articles do not necessarily express the views of the editorial committee.
Summaries of articles in Castilian and English come at the end of each text.
ARCHIVOS is a publication of the Program labor history and the Left (PROHMOI), and has the support of the Project UBACYT "labor movement and the left in Argentina, 1890-1945. Elements for a global analysis," Scientific Program 2012-2014.
In this issue of ARCHIVOS we can read:
Index
Presentation
Dossier: "labor movement and left in Argentina (1880-1950)"
Socialism and Anarchism in the formation of the working class in Argentina: notes historiographical and methodological problems, by Lucas Poy
Syndicalism, maritime workers and historiography in the early twentieth century: critical review and perspectives, by Laura Caruso
Rise and fall of the Communist Party in the Argentine labor movement: critical historiographical and conceptual arguments, by Hernán Camarero
The left and the trade union in the workplace, 1920-1940, by Diego Ceruso
The origins of Argentine Trotskyism: from the 30s to the emergence of Peronism. Theoretical elaborations and political links with the working class, by Alicia Red
Articles
Marxism and the union bureaucracy, The German experience (1898-1920), by Constance and Daniel Gaido Alessio Bosch
Flora Tristan: its role in the establishment of socialism and of the French working class, by Hernan Diaz
Profiles
David Montgomery (1927-2011), by Ludmila Scheinkman
Book Review
Workers of the World (Marcel van der Linden), by Paula Varela
Anarchists. A century libertarian movement in Spain (Dolors Marin), by Ariel Martin Manuli
The Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (1968-1981) (Jean-Paul Salles), by Hernán M. Diaz
Nine lectures on political economy and Marxism (José M. Arico), by Walter L. Koppmann
The combatants, History of PRT-ERP (Vera Carnovale), by Deborah D'Antonio and Ariel Eidelman
Documents:
Karl Marx on the dictatorship of the proletariat and the revolution in permanence, Two documents of 1850, by Manuel Quiroga and Daniel Gaido
Instructions for authors
Responsible Director and Editor
Hernán Camarero (University of Buenos Aires / CONICET)
Committee Editor
Alexander Belkin
University of Buenos Aires
Hernán Camarero
University of Buenos Aires - CONICET
Laura Caruso
University of Buenos Aires - University
San MartÃn National - CONICET
Natalia Casola
University of Buenos Aires - CONICET
Diego Ceruso
University of Buenos Aires
Hernan Diaz
University of Buenos Aires
Feijoo Lucia
University of Buenos Aires
Daniel Gaido
National University of Cordoba - CONICET
Carlos Herrera
Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France
Lucas Poy
University of Buenos Aires - CONICET
Alicia Red
University of Buenos Aires
Claudia Santa Cruz
University of Buenos Aires
Ludmila Scheinkman
University of Buenos Aires - CONICET
Paula Varela
University of Buenos Aires - CONICET
Advisory Council
Bernhard H. Bayerlein (Germany)
Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam -
Newsletter of The International Journal
Communist Studies, Mannheim-Berlin
Ricardo Melgar Bao (Mexico)
National Institute of Anthropology and History
Claudio H.M. Batalha (Brazil)
Universidade Estadual de Campinas -
Edgard Arquivo Leuenroth
Richard B. Day (Canada)
University of Toronto
Nicolás Iñigo Carrera (Argentina)
Conicet - Arg and Inst History
Amer. "Ravignani Emilio" (UBA) - PIMSA
Reiner Torstoff (Germany)
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Peter D. Thomas (England)
Brunel University, London -
Historical Materialism Journal
Andréia Galvão (Brazil)
Universidade Estadual de Campinas -
Edgard Arquivo Leuenroth
Pablo Pozzi (Argentina)
University of Buenos Aires
Stathis Kouvelakis (England)
King's College, London
Massimo Modonesi (Mexico)
National Autonomous University of Mexico -
Autonomous University of Mexico City
Osvaldo Coggiola (Brazil)
Universidade de São Paulo
Omar Acha (Argentina)
University of Buenos Aires / CONICET
Alexander Schneider (Argentina)
University of Buenos Aires
National University of La Plata
Augustine Santella (Argentina)
University of Buenos Aires / CONICET
Ian Birchall (England)
Revolutionary History Journal
Sebastian Budgen (England)
Historical Materialism Journal
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