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Christian Carlos Hernan Castillo (born March 28, 1967) is an Argentinian activist, politician, sociologist and university teacher.[1] He is a founding member of the Socialist Workers' Party (Argentina) (PTS). In the 2013 elections he was voted in as a deputy for the Buenos Aires Province for the Workers Left Front;[2] he resigned to his seat on June 10, 2015 to leave his place to the next candidate based on the banking rotation between the different parties that make up the Front. He was pre-candidate to Governor of the Buenos Aires Province during the 2015 primary elections, losing to Néstor Pitrola.[3]
University
He was director of the Sociology department at the University of Buenos AiresFaculty of Social Sciences.[4] As a Marxist intellectual, he heads the Karl Marx Free Cathedra, which is taught in the Buenos Aires, La Plata, Neuquén, Córdoba, Mendoza, Jujuy, La Matanza, Tucumán and Quilmes Universities.[4]
As a university teacher, he has actively participated in struggles defending a free and public education, against plans of privatising schools, which has led him to participate both nationally and abroad.[4][5]
In 2000, he was apprehended while he was in Mexico in the midst of the UNAM strike. He was jailed with other Mexican students for 18 days and freed on February of that year thanks to solidarity protests with the Mexican students and the hunger strike of Argentinian activists and university students in front of the Mexican embassy.[4][5][6]
He holds the subject General Sociology in the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences of the National University of La Plata, and the optional subject Sociology of revolutionary processes, in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires.
Politics
Between 1983 and 1988, he was leader of the Socialist Youth, youth wing of the Movement for Socialism.[7]
In 1988, he was a founding member of the PTS along with José Montes, Raúl Godoy, and other intellectuals, workers and students.[4]
He has been candidate for various positions, such as, National Deputy, Legislator of the City of Buenos Aires, and Head of Government of the City of Buenos Aires.[4] In the 2007 elections he ran as candidate for national deputy by a left coalition between the PTS and other organizations called "Socialist Workers' Left Front".
In 2009, he ran as candidate for deputy for the City of Buenos Aires for the Socialist Workers' Left Front conformed by the PTS, the MAS and IS.
He is general coordinator of the Leon Trotsky Center of Study, Research and Publications (CEIP)[8] and regularly collaborates in the "Estrategia Internacional" magazine, which is translated to English and French.[9]
His works can be found in the magazines "Estrategia Internacional", "Lucha de Clases" and other books. He has published:
Imperialismo, guerra y resistencia al comienzo del nuevo siglo (1ª ed.). Universidad de Buenos Aires. 2003. ISBN978-950-29-0743-7. Co-authored with Eduardo Grüner y Horacio González
Los '90 (1ª ed.). Final Abierto. 2007. ISBN978-987-23580-1-3. Co-authored with Pablo Pozzi, Pablo Augusto Bonavena and Vicente Zito Lema.
La izquierda frente a la argentina kirchnerista (1ª ed.). Planeta. 2011. ISBN978-950-49-2742-6..
Teoría social y trabajo social (1ª ed.). Universidad Nacional de La Plata. 2017. ISBN978-950-34-1577-1. Collective work
Other activities
He also participates in the radio program "Pateando el tablero" ("kicking the board"), transmitted by Radio Splendid.[10]
