The anarchism renovation in Uruguay: The Uruguayan Anarchist Federation between 1956 and 1967

Abstract

In the beginning of the 20th century, anarchism was the dominant force in the social and worker movements, but since 1929 until 1956, it lost all of its influence. Its reorganization into the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU) in 1956, was the key to recover its importante into the Uruguayan left and to have a new period of importance in the social movements. This essay studies the evolution of anarchism in Uruguay between 1956 and 1967. It begins with the foundation process of the main political legal organization of the Uruguayan anarchism in the period studied, FAU, and analyzes its evolution until its ilegalization in 1967, december: internal organization, internal debats, ideology and revolutionary proposals.