(From Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, fall, 2003)
Colectivo Situaciones emerged from Argentina’s radical student milieu in the mid 1990s and, since then, have developed a long track record of intervention in Argentine social movements. Their books are dialogues with the unemployed workers movement, explorations of the question of power and tactics of struggle, and conversations about how to think about revolution today.
Their radical views pertain to practice as much as theory. They are genuinely a collective and all of their projects are collectively produced. Presently, in addition to their publishing work, they are also working in a collectively run, alternative school.
In a note printed on the back of many of their books, they describe their work as follows:
- [We] intend to offer an internal reading of struggles, a phenomenology (a genealogy), not an “objective” description. It is only in this way that thought assumes a creative, affirmative function, and stops being a mere reproduction of the present. And only in this fidelity with the immanence of thought is it a real, dynamic contribution, which is totally contrary to a project or scheme that pigeonholes and overwhelms practice.
More information can be found on their website at www.situaciones.org. The IAS awarded a grant to Nate Holdren in July 2003 for a translation of their book 19 and 20: Notes for the New Social Protagonism (see “Grants Awarded” for more information) .
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