El movimiento estudiantil de la Universidad Obrera Nacional en Argentina: notas sobre la constitución y funcionamiento de la FADEUO en el peronismo

The purpose of this article is to account for one of the aspects not addressed so far by the extensive bibliography on the National Workers University (UON): the characteristics of the only student organization officially recognized by the rector and its formation during the operation of the institution under the government of Perón: the Argentine Federation of Students of the Obrera University (FADEUO). In this sense, we will present how this incipient student entity was constituted and how its operation developed until its disappearance, after the coup d’état of September 16, 1955. Likewise, the study will investigate the relationship between this organization and the contemporary General University Confederation (CGU), in the general context of the relationship between Peronism and university reformism. This work will be carried out on the basis of a survey of a documentary corpus that includes: the magazine of this institution, resolutions and interviews carried out with former students. Finally, we will see that the FADEUO shared two characteristics with the CGU: it was an explicitly Peronist entity with a strong union bias and it had a very close relationship with the authorities of the university. However, unlike the CGU, the FADEUO did not seek to compete politically with other contemporary student organizations, since its actions were mainly focused on the cult and glorification of Perón within the UON.