ABSTRACT
This chapter will look at the different organizations Recabarren founded, led and, or, participated in, in order to gain an understanding of the evolution of Recabarren’s thoughts about education through organization. Specifically, it will examine Recabarren’s educational project in the Mancomunal Combination of Tocopilla of 1903–1905; Recabarren’s views on the labor unions of Argentina in 1906; the founding of the Socialist Democratic Party by Recabarren; the Socialist Workers Party founded by Recabarren in 1912, its educational activities and leadership; the cooperatives and the role Recabarren believed they played; the unions and union action; the Federation of Chilean Workers (FOCH); and the Communist Party of Chile (CPCh) in 1922.
