tina, that the Peronist movement, which has dominated the working nadergoing a deep crisis. This was the first time ever that the Justicalist Party, as the Peronists are called, have failed to win an election.
project which has been at the heart of the disorientation of the Argentinian decades.
But the working class can galn no comort from the of the Radicals, who represent the safest option IMF the World Bank and the United States. Kaola leader Raul Alfonsin will Juan Peron with evila a rescheduling 39 billon tina's huge billion dollar external debt — ana the price will be austenly measures the Argentinian will have to pay for.
The last Peronist regime was overthrown in 1976 when the military iook Dower. Since that time successive military regimes have carried out a ruthless war against 'subversion' won by the bourgeois Radical Party, shows class for nearly half a century, is The result points to an exhaustion of the political workers movement for resulted in 30,000 'disappeared'. As the economy has moved further further into crisis, a new round of worker struggles has challenged the regime. asu suaw of military incompetence was handling Malvinas war. The the bourgeoisie has been to attempt to put place a stable bourgeols civillan regime The first obstacle to that project - the existence of the Peronists the strongest political party — has been removed.
Juan Peron came to power in a military coup in &. 943. Argentina at that time was dominated by the section of the bourgeoisie based on Argentina's powerful farming His project was simple but brilliant. Peron used the massive surpluses gained through the export of wheat and beef and other agricultural products build up industry and institute social welfare schemes creases for the workers.
He and his wite Evita built up a huge following the The UGT federaLUlL But became alienation 'Peronist' of powerful forces in the made him many enemies.
so long Argentina benefitted massive exports his project could be sustained. But when the revived after the war and the structure of the Argentinian economy began to change, the surplus was no longer unce with UnC workers. Peron Wan brought down in 1955. Myth But the myth of Peronism survived. In Peron back from exile. But the meaning of Peronism wa: bitterly contested. In the early 1970s a wing of the Peronists formed a radical guella group when wag ed armed struggle against the regime the Monteneros. Peron himself, and after his death his second wife Isabella, along with the radicals. As the country descended into chaos, the military moved the 1976 in to carry vul coup.
In the 1980s Peronism cannot reconstitute itsell multi-class force because econotic basis for satisfying the inLee KAS du those of the boureoisie