International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest

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Osvaldo Bayer is an Argentinian writer, historian, and anarchist. His work has been important to the overturning of several stereotypes of Argentinian anarchism and political immigration, while his activism has played a significant role in the fight for human rights and indigenous rights in Argentina. In 1963 Bayer was sentenced to 63 days' imprisonment for expressing his opinions about Argentine history. In 1970 he published his novel Severino Di Giovanni , the story of the Italian illegalist executed in 1931. The first volume of Patagonia Rebelde appeared in 1972, reconstructing a long revolutionary strike in Patagonia that ended with the murder of hundreds of revolutionaries in 1921. Bayer was sentenced to death by an illegal right-wing association (the Triple A) for writing this, and had to go underground, sheltering in the house of an anarchist. After the 1976 military putsch, he had to escape to Berlin, where he lived until 1983. Since returning to Argentina, he has been known as an intellectual committed to the rights of the victims of the repression and the indigenous, especially the Mapuche of Patagonia. SEE ALSO: Anarchism, Argentina ; Anarchosyndicalism ; Argentina, Indigenous Popular Protests ( 1975 ) Los Anarquistas Expropriadores . Buenos Aires : Galerna . ( 2007 ) Osvaldo Bayer Íntimo . Buenos Aires : Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo . ( Dir .) ( ... log in or subscribe to read full text