Document on the world situation presented to the Leeds Conference polemising with the leadership of the American SWP.
Category: Works
THESES OF LEEDS (1958)
Paper presented to the Congress of the International Committee of the Fourth International, held in Leeds, Great Britain. In this paper, Moreno deals with the crises open within the counter-revolutionary Stalinist apparatuses after the political revolution in Hungary and its crashing by the Red Army in 1956.
THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD (1958)
In 1958, the Fourth International (International Committee) conference held in Leeds in 1958 adopted a draft resolution on the world situation prepared by Farrell Dobbs, one of the most important leaders of the Socialist Workers Party of the United States. Moreno, who was attending the conference, makes important criticisms of […]
PERU: TWO STRATEGIES (1961-1963)
The peasant rebellion headed by Hugo Blanco and the polemic with putschism (1961-1963).
THE LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1962)
Was Cuba a workers’ state? Did the Cuban revolution follow the general outline of Trotsky’s theory of the permanent revolution? Ae there gaps in the theory of the permanent revolution? Is armed struggle necessary? What is more important, guerrilla warfare o workers’ and popular militias? Do we have to build […]
Memorandum on oil agreements (1963)
Perón, exiled in Madrid and with Peronism banned, made a pact with Arturo Frondizi, of the Intransigent Radical Civic Union (UCRI). The workers, mostly Peronists, obeyed their leader’s order to vote for the Frondizi-Gómez ticket, which won in May 1958. A few months into his administration, in July, Frondizi announced […]
ON BENGOCHEA’S SPLIT WITH PALABRA OBRERA (1964)
In 1962 Bengochea and four other comrades travelled to Cuba to request support for the armed peasants who were occupying land in Peru led by Hugo Blanco. They were won over to the guerrilla positions and broke with the party. Moreno wrote about the differences and how to channel them […]
TWO METHODS FOR THE LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1964)
Critical remarks to the works of Ernesto “Che” Guevara “The guerrilla warfare”, “Cuba: exceptional case or vanguard in the struggle against colonialism” and “Guerrilla warfare: a method”. Article published in the magazine Estrategia (second era), Buenos Aires, 1964.
ARGENTINA, A COUNTRY IN CRISIS (1964)
In July 1963, Arturo Illía, of the UCRP (People’s Radical Civic Union) won the presidential elections. Peronism was still outlawed (with Peron exiled in Madrid). And former President Frondizi, ousted in 1962, was confined to Bariloche. A few days later, Nahuel Moreno wrote a brief report and in November he […]
Origins of the Argentine workers’ movement (1965)
Notes used for a talk in Avellaneda (province of Buenos Aires) about the origins of workers’ struggles and organizations at the end of the 19th century and their development until the emergence of Peronism in 1943.