Typescript circulars (mostly not for publication), and internal bulletins with occasional hand-written alterations. Overall themes are Trotskyism and the Fourth International. Mostly in Spanish. Topics include Vietnam War, Libya after the 1969 coup, Argentina, Portugal, Nixon's visit to China, Uruguayan section, French Communist Party, Poland, education of children, mathematics.
Posadas Tendency
This material is held atSenate House Library Archives, University of London
- Reference
- GB 96 MS1209
- Dates of Creation
- 1963-1981
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- Spanish Italian English French
- Physical Description
- 17 boxes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Juan Posadas was the pseudonym of Homero Cristalli Frasnelli, who was born in Argentina in 1912. He joined the Partido de la Revolucion Socialista in 1941 and was the leader of the Latin American bureau of the Fourth International for some years. The Posadists formed their own section of the Fourth International in 1962.
Access Information
Open for research although at least 48 hours notice should be given as archive is held off-site.
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Catalogued to file-level on the Senate House Libraries online archive catalogue, http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArchive&search=priref=110049355