We are excited to announce the next event in our Organized Anarchism: A
Global Perspective series, a discussion with a delegate from theFederación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU). ---- => Register for the
discussion at this link ---- This event will take place on Sunday, April
7th at 12 PM (US Pacific) / 2 PM (US Central) / 3 PM (US Eastern) / 4 PM
(UYT) ---- The event will be simulcast in English and Spanish. ----
Among the most storied anarchist organizations in history, the FAU is
marked equally by its illustrious activity and by its members' major
contributions to anarchist social and political theory. Founded in 1956
by refugees of the Spanish Civil War and others who fled fascist
repression in Europe, the FAU developed as a small organization that
punched well above its weight in struggles on shop floors, in
neighborhoods, and on campuses. Adhering to a principled, but
non-sectarian approach to mass organizing, the FAU participated during
the 1960's in coalitions that included leftwing organizations of various
stripes.
Outlawed and forced underground at the start of Uruguay's civic
dictatorship in 1967, members of the FAU continued to organize both
openly and clandestinely. It was during this period of legal
proscription that members of the organization developed an armed wing,
OPR-33, which carried out high risk actions such as expropriations,
sabotage, and even kidnappings of political leaders and members of the
capitalist class. Unlike the vanguardist strategy of foquismo, which the
FAU criticized, the actions of its armed wing were done in tight
coordination with struggles led by mass organizations like unions and
neighborhood assemblies.
As the forces of US-backed anticommunism closed their grip on the
southern cone, some 50 members of the FAU were arrested, imprisoned,
tortured, murdered, or disappeared throughout the 1970's. Greatly
diminished due to repression, the FAU would not reemerge in Uruguay
until the fall of the country's civic-military dictatorship in 1985.
After a period of reorganization, the FAU worked to support the creation
of new anarchist organizations in the region, modeled on their
organizational-strategic approach of especifismo. These new
organizations include groups that would go on to form the Brazilian
Anarchist Coordinator and the Anarchist Federation of Rosario in
Argentina. Today the FAU remains an active organization, with a presence
in labor and neighborhood campaigns.
To learn more about the FAU in advance of the discussion, we recommend
the following articles:
Especifismo: The Anarchist Praxis of Building Popular Movements and
Revolutionary Organization by Adam Weaver
The Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU): Crisis, Armed Struggle and
Dictatorship, 1967-1985 edited by Paul Sharkey
"An Organisation of Militants" The Federación Anarquista Uruguaya by
Tommy Lawson
For a more comprehensive history of the FAU, we recommend:
Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay
1956-76 by Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis
[Review of Anarchist Popular Power]Lessons in Struggle from Uruguayan
Anarchists by Juan Verala Luz
[Audio]Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis' Presentation on Anarchist Popular Power
https://blackrosefed.org/organized-anarchism-series-fau/
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