Abstract
I spent May 2003 in Argentina visiting factories, working-class suburbs, villas de miserie (impoverished housing of unemployed squatters), lower middle-class assemblies in the cities, social centers of the unemployed, and universities. I interviewed trade unionists, unemployed workers, student and faculty activists, human rights activists, film and video makers, the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, writers, doctors, journalists, and Marxist and center-left political leaders. This was my thirty-eighth year of visiting, studying, and giving talks in Argentina. I spent most of my time in greater Buenos Aires and in Neuquen Province, where Argentina's foremost ceramic factory was taken over by its workers and is now run through a system of democratic self-management.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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