This article problematizes analytically the dissidences produced inside the leadership of the Communist Party of Argentina in 1927 and 1928 between two factions defined by the relation each of them adopted with the leadership of the III International. On the one hand, the line headed by José Penelón claimed for the Argentinean communism some independence in their daily tasks concerning the Soviet international politics. On the other hand, Rodolfo Ghioldi embodied a heavy internationalist position. This study attempts to demonstrate and analyze the existence of some margins of autonomous action inside the PC of Argentina towards the end of the decade of 1920. With this aim, I work mainly with a series of official documents from the Institute of Marxism-Leninism dependent on the Central Committee of the ex-Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Keywords:
Communist Party of Argentina, III International, Communism, José Penelón, Rodolfo Ghioldi
Piemonte, V. A. (2016). Factional struggle within the communist party of Argentina in the late twenties: the "affaire Penelon" and the role of the third international. Cuadernos De Historia, (43), pp. 31–58. Retrieved from https://cuadernosdehistoria.uchile.cl/index.php/CDH/article/view/41469
