The Argentine Libertarian Federation (in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, Federación Libertaria Argentina, FLA) is a libertarian

Libertarianism

Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...

 communist

Anarchist communism

Anarchist communism is a theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, markets, money, private property, and capitalism in favor of common ownership of the means of production, direct democracy and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with...

  federation

Federation

A federation , also known as a federal state, is a type of sovereign state characterized by a union of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government...

 which operates in Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, out of the City of Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, San Pedro, La Pampa Province

La Pampa Province

La Pampa is a sparsely populated province of Argentina, located in the Pampas in the center of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise San Luis, Córdoba, Buenos Aires, Río Negro, Neuquén and Mendoza.-History:...

, and Rosario

Rosario

Rosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River and has 1,159,004 residents as of the ....

. Founded in October 1935 with the name of the Anarcho-Communist Federation of Argentina (FACA, Federación Anarco-Comunista Argentina) the FLA adopted its current name in 1955.

Since 1985, the FLA has been publishing the political journal El Libertario

El Libertario

El Libertario is the title of several Spanish-language anarchist journals. Some journals which have taken this name are:* El Libertario , published by the Argentine Libertarian Federation...

. Prior to that, FLA published Acción Libertaria. The FLA is a member of the International of Anarchist Federations

International of Anarchist Federations

The International of Anarchist Federations was founded during an international anarchist conference in Carrara in 1968 by the three existing European federations of France, Italy and Spain as well as the Bulgarian federation in French exile...

(IAF-IFA), the anarchist international which includes member organisations from Italy, Spain, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Germany, Russia and other nations.

External links

• Website of the FLA
• FLA cited in the Anarchist Encyclopedia
• http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/worldwidemovements/BAEL/ArgentinePeriodicals.html scans of periodicals housed in the FLA's archive.