The 1919 Tragic Week: Buenos Aires Labor Uprising

In January 1919, Buenos Aires exploded. A strike at the Vasena metalworks became a general strike, then a pogrom, then a military clampdown that left hundreds dead. Lucas and Luna take you through the Semana Trágica, the role of the anarchist FORA and the syndicalist FOA, the police and military repression led by Luis Dellepiane, and the vigilante groups that attacked Jewish workers in Villa Crespo. They look at the political background under Hipólito Yrigoyen, the 'maximalist' panic, and how the crisis shaped Argentine labor politics for decades. The episode raises a hard question: was the Tragic Week a failed revolution, a brutal state crackdown, or a warning shot in the long class struggle that defined twentieth-century Argentina?

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