Anarchism in the Dominican Republic

Anarchism in the Dominican Republic first surfaced in the late 19th century, as part of the nascent workers' movement.

History

In the 1880s and 1890s, Spanish immigrant workers brought anarchism to the Dominican Republic. In 1884, the mutualist association La Alianza Cibaeña was founded. This was followed by the Sociedad Artesenal Hijos del Pueblo in 1890. In 1897, the Unión de Panaderos de Santo Domingo was founded, becoming the country's first trade union. Bakers, cobblers, and bricklayers led the country's first wave of strikes, protesting in Parque Colon against their respective employers. ^[1]

In the 1920s, after the US occupation had ended and the Third Republic was established, the Federación Local del Trabajo de Santo Domingo was founded. ^[2] However, in 1930 Rafael Trujillo seized power from the democratically-elected government of Horacio Vásquez in a coup d'état , establishing a right-wing dictatorship which suppressed all political opposition - including the anarchist movement.^{[ citation needed ]}

Following the end of the Cold War and the beginning of a new period of globalisation, the anarchist movement in the Caribbean began to reorganise, with new anarchist groups forming in the Dominican Republic. In 2015, Dominican anarchists hosted a regional congress in Santiago de los Caballeros, where they established the Anarchist Federation of Central America and the Caribbean (Spanish : Federación Anarquista del Centro America y del Caribe; FACC). ^[3]

See also

• List of anarchist movements by country
• Anarchism in Cuba

References

1. Calderón Martínez, Rafael (1983). "El movimiento obrero dominicano 1870–1978". In González Casanova (ed.). Historia de movimiento obrero en América Latina. Colección Antología de América Latina (in Spanish). Mexico: Editorial Katún. pp. 271–72. ISBN   9684300484. OCLC   11559006.
2. Calderón Martínez, Rafael (1983). "El movimiento obrero dominicano 1870–1978". In González Casanova (ed.). Historia de movimiento obrero en América Latina. Colección Antología de América Latina (in Spanish). Mexico: Editorial Katún. p. 275. ISBN   9684300484. OCLC   11559006.
3. Shaffer, Kirwin R. (2020). Anarchists of the Caribbean: Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion. Cambridge University Press. p. 287. ISBN   978-1-108-48903-4.

Bibliography

• Cappelletti, Angel J. (2018). Anarchism in Latin America. Translated by Gabirel Palmer-Fernández. Edinburgh: AK Press. pp. 223–224. ISBN   9781849352826. OCLC   1044939183.

Further reading

• Acosta Matos, Mariel M. (2016). The Anarchism of Radical Workers and Intellectuals in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century Dominican Republic (PDF). Anarquismo Latinoamericano: 20th Century Anarchist Organizing in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Wesleyan University.