Uruguayan Anarchist Federation
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Federación Anarquista Uruguaya, commonly known as FAU or Uruguayan Anarchist Federation, is a Uruguay
an anarchist organization founded in 1956. The FAU was created by anarchist militants to be a specifically anarchist organization. The FAU was the first organization to promote the organizational concept of Especifismo
. The FAU has aided in the creation of several similar anarchist organizations including the Federação Anarquista Gaúcha
(FAG) and Federação Anarquista Cabocla (FACA) in Uruguay, the Argentine organization Auca (Rebel), and the Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro (FARJ) in Brazil. Since 2010 it has participated in Anarkismo.net
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Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
an anarchist organization founded in 1956. The FAU was created by anarchist militants to be a specifically anarchist organization. The FAU was the first organization to promote the organizational concept of Especifismo
Especifismo
Especifismo is one of the two main forms of anarchist activism championed by FARJ and other South American anarchist organizations, the other being social insertion...
. The FAU has aided in the creation of several similar anarchist organizations including the Federação Anarquista Gaúcha
Federação Anarquista Gaúcha
The Federação Anarquista Gaúcha, or FAG, was formed November 18, 1995 in one of the meetings of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation, in Montevideo. Of anarchist and socialist orientation, it defends federalism and self-management. Today this federation is spread in many cities of Rio Grande do Sul,...
(FAG) and Federação Anarquista Cabocla (FACA) in Uruguay, the Argentine organization Auca (Rebel), and the Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro (FARJ) in Brazil. Since 2010 it has participated in Anarkismo.net
Anarkismo.net
Anarkismo.net is an international anarchist-communist, platformist and especifista news and discussion website. Its news service is one of the select publishers included in the Google News aggregator...
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Further reading
- Paul Sharkey (editor) The Federacion Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU): Crisis, Armed Struggle and Dictatorship, 1967-1985 Kate Sharpley Library, 2009. ISBN 9781873605691