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Descamisados

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Descamisados 

(the Shirtless Ones), self-designation of politically active representatives of the urban poor during the revolution of 1820-23 in Spain. They demanded the establishment of popular sovereignty and broad democratic reforms. They became allied with the left wing of the comuneros organization.



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His wife devoted her time to the poor, or the descamisados (shirtless ones), of Argentina and over the next seven years brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before.
The young, in the home of revolution, are now, it would seem, a bona fide revolutionary class - equivalent to the Parisian sans-culottes (trouserless ones), the Argentinian descamisados (shirtless ones), Cuban barbudos (beardies), or, in their geriatric way, New Labour's greybeardies.
The club, which sits in a quiet square where rich Recoleta nudges up against the vast Avenida 9 de Julio, turns one's thoughts to that invincible Argentine phantom Juan Peron, who unleashed a mob of workers and descamisados, shirtless slum dwellers, against the place in 1953.
 
 
 
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