Abstract

BELKIN, Alejandro Marcelo. “Sacrificada La Confederación en homenaje a la unidad proletaria”. Los orígenes de la FORA IX: el Congreso de Concentración Obrera (1914). Av. Cesor [online]. 2022, vol.19, n.27, pp.1-1. ISSN 1514-3899.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.35305/ac.v19i27.1685.

In the first three decades of the 20th century there were three large workers' unions in Argentina. The Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA), the General Union of Workers (UGT) and the Argentine Regional Workers' Confederation (CORA). The latter has not been practically addressed by specialized historiography. Even today we lack studies that examine its origins, evolution and outcome. In pursuit of contributing to rescue and reconstruct its history and its drifts, the Congress of Labor Concentration, convened by the CORA for 1914, is studied here, an immediate antecedent of the IX Congress of the FORA. This constitutes a milestone in the history of the Argentine labor movement, since it sanctions a change in the political orientation of the union central. This article makes a double contribution, both to the history of CORA and to the history and origins of FORA IX, a workers' union that would have a decisive impact on the country's historical future. The analysis of the Congress of Concentration helps us to understand the profound changes that were taking place within the labor movement, the growing weakness and division of anarchism and the parallel strengthening of revolutionary syndicalism as the hegemonic force of Argentine unionism.

Keywords : CORA; FORA; Trade unionism; Anarchism; Socialism.

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