Federation of Russian Workers of South America

Russian immigrant organization in South America

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The Federation of Russian Workers of South America (Spanish: Federación de Obreros Rusos en Sudamérica, abbreviated FORSA) was an organization of Russian immigrants in Argentina. The organization was founded in February 1918.[1] FORSA was led by Mikhail Komin-Alexandrovsky, a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party who had arrived in Argentina in 1909.[2] FORSA existed parallel to the Russian Union of Socialist Workers (UROS), which FORSA labelled as 'Menshevik'.[1][3]

FORSA published the newspaper Golos Truda ('Voice of Labour') from Buenos Aires, with Komin-Alexandrovsky as its editor.[3][2][1][4] FORSA claimed to have some 15,000 members.[1][3] The organization also had members in Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.[1][3]

FORSA sent Komin-Alexandrovsky as its representative to the 2nd World Congress of the Comintern in 1920.[5][2]

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1. ^ a b c d e Hernán Camarero (1 October 2017). Tiempos rojos: El impacto de la Revolución rusa en la argentina. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Argentina. p. 92\. ISBN 978-950-07-6003-4.
2. ^ a b c Piemonte, Victor Augusto. DE LA AUTONOMÍA RELATIVA DEL PARTIDO COMUNISTA ARGENTINO A LA DEPENDENCIA RESPECTO DEL PARTIDO COMUNISTA DE LA UNIÓN SOVIÉTICA. ALGUNAS CUESTIONES NODALES EN TORNO DEL INTERNACIONALISMO COMUNISTA EN LA ARGENTINA DURANTE LA DÉCADA DE 1920
3. ^ a b c d Jeifets, Victor and Lazar Jeifets. La Internacional Comunista y la izquierda argentina: primeros encuentros y desencuentros
4. ^ Masako Gavin; Ben Middleton (21 August 2013). Japan and the High Treason Incident. Routledge. p. 85\. ISBN 978-1-135-05056-6.
5. ^ Alternativa. Instituto de Ciencias Alejandro Lipschutz. 2004. p. 34.