A nuanced study of strikes led by the powerful anarcho-syndicalist labor union FORA against the despotic landowners and industrialists of Argentina’s Patagonia region in 1921–1922. The tale ends tragically, with 1500 workers slaughtered, but Bayer’s detailed descriptions capture the the beauty and heroism of the struggle. Banned and publicly burned in the 1970s, this is the book’s first English translation.