ABSTRACT
This chapter will examine Recabarren’s views on the working-class press and the importance he placed on it as a means to educate the working class towards the establishment of their own agency as a class. Recabarren (1918/1986b) believed that working-class organizations could not exist without the press. Recabarren (1912/1976a) thought that it was necessary to convince the workers of their own power and that the strength of their power was in organization. The working class’s press must accomplish that task by allowing workers to develop their own thinking. The press as an educational tool was the exterior manifestation of working-class ideas. Only by studying their own ideas could workers advance.
