Entre la Novela y el periódico obrero; entre Ongaro y Perón. Walsh y el semanario CGT (1968-1969)

The article analyzes the experience of Rodolfo Walsh as the editor of CGT (1968-1969), the weekly newspaper of the Confederación General del Trabajo de los Argentinos, one of the Argentina’s largest trade union federation of that period. Walsh’s editorship coincided with the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía and the essay focuses on the repercussions this experience had on Walsh’s literary work and political activism. Walsh and the group of journalists entrusted with putting out the weekly strived to effectively engage the working class, as did other professionals, artists and intellectuals who coalesced around the trade union federation around this period. This essay proposes thinking about the federation during these particular year (1968-1969) as a precarious experiment where middle-class sectors fleetingly coincided with the working class in their political, cultural and intellectual quests.