«Nosotros éramos el tercer mundo y teníamos que imponer ese ideal justicialista» Violencia política y nacionalismo en la biografía de un obrero peronista

This article approaches the biography of a trade unionist belonging to the Peronist right wing during the 1970s. Through a life story, we propose to analyze the memories, imaginary, and story of a common trade unionist and worker. The article draws from oral history methodology and the biographical genre to cover some fundamental problems of the recent Argentine history: the conformation of the Peronist political identity, the traits of “vandorist” trade unionism, and the emergence of the trade unionists of the so-called syndicalist right wing. This study approaches a largely unexplored aspect of the labor movement: the existence of a strongly anti-communist politico-syndicalist culture. The analysis of this political culture, crucial in the world of right-wing Peronism, aims to provide a case study inherent to the relationship between right-wing movements and the working world during the 1970s.