Abstract

LARRONDO, MARINA. Coming to stay? The emergence of the right wing in the secondary student movement in Argentina (2020-2024). memorias [online]. 2025, n.57, pp.38-66.  Epub Oct 07, 2025. ISSN 1794-8886.  https://doi.org/10.14482/memor.57.111.478.

This paper analyzes the changes and continuities in the secondary student movement in recent Argentina, and shows how the rise of the radical right wing has transformed youth politics and impacted the formation of groups with new identities, demands and frameworks of collective action. More precisely, it analyzes what happened to the student's organizations and their ways of constructing meaning of education, the student political subjectivities and youth political identities. In order to do this, the journey of two organizations are studied: the Organized Students group (non-partisan but with a certain center-right wing orientation) and La Libertad Avanza (radical right wing) during the period 2020-2024 in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. Methodological approach: A content analysis is carried out based on interviews with militants and is combined with bibliographic and documentary analysis.

The findings show an impact of the emergence of the right wing on the student movement in terms of new actors and demands. While the center-right group advances an agenda that questions the terms under which certain student rights have been raised and advances a "young" agenda, radical right groups challenge school knowledge in a comprehensive manner, identifying "indoctrination" as the main educational problem. The effects of these changes on both the student movement and daily school life are ongoing.

Keywords : politics; youth; student movements; secondary schools.

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