Class Movement, 2001 Crisis and Duhalde’s government. The Case of dissenting CGT (General Confederation of Labour)

Abstract

In this paper we study the case of the CGT “dissident” in the period covered since the general strike of December 13, 2001, to strike with mobilization organized by the organization on May 22, 2002 - the first attempt general strike and demonstration against the government of Eduardo Duhalde. The goal is to reconstruct the positions, practices and discourses of dissident CGT sociohistorical process stated, in relation to political and economic measures taken by governments, facing entrepreneurs fractions compared with competing strategic projects, against other organizationsof organized labor and the working class, and the whole “field of the people”. Thus, aims to highlight the importance of organized labor, particularly the dissident CGT, in the crisis of December 2001 and the transition from there opens, during the first months of the posconvertibilidad