¿Un movimiento estudiantil moderado en los ’70? El caso de la lucha de los estudiantes de las Escuelas Técnicas contra la “Ley Fantasma” en 1972

Abstract

In this article we analyze the development of the struggle of students of technical high schools against a legislative project in the jurisdiction of Buenos Aires in 1972, during the Dictatorship of General Lanusse. These protests had as their principal demand the rejection of a new law restricting the competencies of technical degrees and were, without doubt, the most numerous student movilizations of the entire regime of the self proclaimed "Argentinian Revolution". In this case, we find a student movement with professional demands that despite using the streets, taking buildings and organizing strikes, conducted its actions in a highly institutionalized way and never turned towards radical political demands. We then say that it's a moderate movement when compared to the usual analysis about the student movement during the late '60s and early '70s, which emphasize the radicalism of the students in ideological and political terms.