Keywords
political field
identity
social trauma
power relationships
contingent articulations
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Abstract
This text aims to clear analytical gaps in regards to the Colombian union movement during the Violence period, and regarding ideologies expressed in it and which interact with it. It illustrates how the union movement manifested in the union central, the Colombian Workers Confederation (CTC), defined as a political union, confronts an offensive, which begins with the legislation from Lopez Pumarejo. This legislation consecrates demands from the union movement, while restricting the use of strikes. At the same time, it removes the importance of union federations and strengthens base unionism in order to restrict it to economic demands. Discourses converge from various sectors from liberals, conservatives, and the church, proposing an apolitical approach as a policy to promote within the union movement, in the middle of a debate, exceeded by the repression and division of the union movement. One of its episodes, is the strike by the National Federation of River, Sea, and Air Transportation (FEDENAL), which, as the study demonstrates, has been overestimated by the historiography of the union movement by being illustrated as the confrontation that liquidates the federation and leaves the political union movement in a terminal state. The offensive is evidenced as a much more complex and sustained process, and it is not able to settle accounts with the so-called political union movement.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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