The José Ingenieros Popular Library, founded 1st July, 1935, is one of the three historic establishments of the anarchist movement in the city of Buenos Aires. It offers a large quantity of archive and library material on the anarchist and the workers’ movements. Until recently, maintenance work on the building and the construction of additional space were being carried out in order to improve the conservation and the availability of this source of documents to militants and researchers who visit us from around the world. At the moment, this work is at a halt due to the lack of funds.
Our History
The José Ingenieros Popular Library was born in July of 1935. This fruit of a brief liaison between anarchist and socialist militants, nonetheless, upon its first move to a building in Santander Street, experienced the withdrawal of the socialists from the Library, thus leaving it in the hands of the libertarians, the majority of whom belongs to the Shoe Workers’ Federation adhering to the Argentinean Regional Workers´ Federation (FORA).
Many and varied have been the activities carried out in the Library; those of philodramatic groups, student groups, the editorial group of “La Protesta”, the Association of Free Education (ADEL), the Jaen Cinema Club, the commission of aid to those imprisoned and pursued during the most recent military dictatorship as well as offering a meeting place for union members, feminists, antimilitarists, antifascists and anarchists in general. Continue Reading »
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