From Peronist Resistance to the Independent Alternative: Paths of Peronism's Leftward Shift through the Militant Career of Raimundo (“El Negro”)Villaflor

Abstract

This article is part of the studies on the New Left in Argentina. It reconstructs the trajectory of Raimundo Aníbal Villaflor, a key political-trade union personality of revolutionary Peronism. Villaflor began his militancy in the heart of the Peronist movement, but expressed a specific process of radicalization that redefined the margins of Peronist identity closer to Marxism. Approaching this militant career allows us to reconstruct a trajectory from the origins of the cycle, analyze the processes of reconfiguration of political traditions such as Peronism or socialism, and shed light on a political radicalization within the new left.