Argentina: 50 years after the genocidal coup
50 years ago, on March 24, 1976, a coup took place in Argentina that gave rise to a nationwide genocidal dictatorship. The coup was preceded by various forms of bourgeois state terrorism, notoriously the AAA (triple A) death squads – the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance. The coup was part of a series of dictatorships established in the Southern Cone, at the continental level. Its purpose was to exterminate the vanguard of working class and popular fighters, to open the way to the neo-colonization of the country. The consequences of the coup: deindustrialization, dismantling the industrial proletariat, remain to this day.
In the current context, U.S. imperialism strengthens the offensive on the Americas as its area of influence, as was the case in the coup d’état by fraud in Honduras in November 2025 or the direct intervention in Venezuela with the kidnapping of Maduro in 2026
The capitalist economic groups that benefited from the coup and its economic policy have never been condemned. This is what allows the social base of what was the genocidal dictatorship to be maintained and today that is manifested in the growing denialism on the part of the far-right government of Milei.
Today the Milei government not only denies the crimes of the dictatorship, but is deeply complicity in the genocide of Zionism in Gaza, defending Israel and the war of aggression of imperialism against Iran, siding with the imperialist offensive.
During this offensive to retake the political and military control of US imperialism over the continent the workers vanguard must prepare for new struggles. In a context where only the regroupment of the working class can be a guarantee of a popular victory.
