In early October, prominent lifelong anarchist Osvaldo Escribano died in Buenos Aires.
He was part of the anarchist movement in Argentina and Uruguay and participated in many different self-organized projects.
He was born in 1939. At the age of 18, he was drawn to anarchism, through the anarchist club of the José Ingenieros People’s Library. In the 1960s, he became involved in student revolts. He was also part of the cooperative movement and the peasant movement, and became one of the founders of a federation of housing cooperatives. He was a member of the Comunidade do Sul do Uruguai (Community of Southern Uruguay), an experiment in free living in which he practiced his ideas for years, until his exile in Argentina in 1974.
He collaborated at the community level in the fight against neoliberal practices with his life partner, María Eva Izquierdo. He passed away a little over a year after her (we published her obituary HERE: https://www.afed.cz/text/8249/maria-eva-izquierdo-1941-2024). They were a couple whose life was the fight for a free world.
Self-government and cooperatives became the pillars of Osvaldo’s vision of community and anarchist spaces. Based on them, he contributed to a number of initiatives in the Río de la Plata region. His return to Uruguay in 2000 did not stop his creative spirit, he participated in the foundation of the anarchist space La Solidaria and the cultural and community center El Terruño in Rincon del Pinar, where the feminist library Brujas and the Anarchist Archive operate. He actively supported the collective Mujeres Libres (Free Women), which operated in the José Ingenieros library in the 1990s, and strengthened the role of women in the libertine movement. In recent years, he has been actively involved in the activities of the social center Cordón Norte. He was a member of the Development Commission of FUCVAM (Uruguayan Federation of Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives). Osvaldo also left his mark on the publishing and promotional projects of the José Ingenieros People’s Library: for example, he participated in the publication Acción Directa por la Revolución Social (Direct Action for the Social Revolution) or the magazine El Libertario , and prepared the graphic design of many leaflets, magazines and books.
You can listen to Osvaldo’s memories in Spanish on the video HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP-6zadm8nw
You can watch the memorial video for Osvaldo HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPKtu4_XyiA
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source: Anarchist News