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E116.1: [TEASER] Argentina uprising 2001, bonus – the state and political violence

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Working Class History

Society & Culture, Education, History

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Preview extract of our bonus episode about state and political violence in Argentina (and beyond). Part of our miniseries on the 2001 Argentina uprising, which toppled the government, and saw the spread of neighbourhood assemblies and factories taken over by workers. In conversation with Tomas Rothaus, a participant in the uprising and author of Argentina, a Tale of Two Utopias.

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Acknowledgements
  • Thanks to our Patreon supporters for making this podcast possible. Special thanks to Jazz Hands.
  • Episode graphic: pictures of those disappeared during Argentina's 'Dirty War'. Credit: Giselle Bordoy WMAR/Wikimedia Commons.
  • Our theme tune is Bella Ciao, thanks for permission to use it from Dischi del Sole. You can purchase it here or stream it here.
  • Edited by Jesse French

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As we come marching, marching in the beauty of the day, a million darkened in kitchens, a thousand

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mill-off's gray are brightened by theies, sun and sun discloses.

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And the people here are seeing bread and roses, bread and roses.

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The context in which the military dictatorship begins in Argentina, the official story, so speak, was it was an

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