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The left not armed before the armed offensive. The Socialist Party of Workers and Política Obrera in the face of state and parastatal repression: responses, tensions and contradictions (1973-1976). The article will address the dynamics of two parties of the Trotskyist tradition of the seventies in Argentina, The PST and Política Obrera, in terms of their modes of participation between the end of 1973 and the March 1976 coup d'état. It was about two experiences that rejected the gestation of simultaneously political and military parties. At the same time, they sought to take advantage of those democratic guarantees that the situation made possible through a more exposed militancy. In the first place, the article aims to quantify the offensive process against these organizations from a relay of attacks and attacks on militants. In another order, we will analyze the way in which, in a period marked by a sharp violence not only state but also parastatal that had in these organizations one of its targets, these experiences struggled to congeniar the continuity of a policy of utilization of each time narrower margins of legality simultaneously with the need for greater adoption of clandestine practices, the outlines of response to this offensive and the tensions detached from these seemingly contradictory premises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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