Franja Morada

{{Short description|Argentine university political group}}

{{Infobox Political Youth Organisation

|name = Franja Morada

|native_name =

|colorcode = #673147

|logo = FranjaMorada.png

|chairperson = Gastón Soler

|secretary =

|founded = {{Start date|1967}}{{cite news|url=https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201708/199232-se-cumplen-50-anos-de-la-fundacion-de-franja-morada.html|archivedate=2022-10-06|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20221006195935/https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201708/199232-se-cumplen-50-anos-de-la-fundacion-de-franja-morada.html|title=Se cumplen 50 años de la fundación de Franja Morada|last=Del Corro|first=Fernando|date=26 August 2017|access-date=1 October 2022|language=es}}

|headquarters = Buenos Aires

|international = International Union of Socialist Youth

|regional1_type =

|ideology = Progressivism{{cite web|url=https://www.diariodemocracia.com/locales/junin/47033-franja-morada-anos-identidad-universitaria/|work=Diario Democracia de Junín|title=Franja Morada, 45 años de identidad universitaria|date=17 November 2012|access-date=1 October 2022|language=es}}
Reformism{{cite news|url=https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201706/191961-franja-morada-celebro-50-anos-reivindicando-la-educacion-laica.html|work=Télam|title=Franja Morada celebró 50 años, reivindicando la educación laica|date=11 June 2017|access-date=1 October 2022|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810020513/https://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201706/191961-franja-morada-celebro-50-anos-reivindicando-la-educacion-laica.html|archive-date=10 August 2017}}

|regional1_name =

|mother party = Radical Civic Union

|website = {{url|http://www.franjamorada.org.ar/}}

|colours = {{colorbox|#673147}} Purple

}}

Franja Morada ("Purple Strip") is the student wing of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), a major political party in Argentina. Founded in 1967, it has led the Argentine University Federation (FUA) since the end of the military dictatorship in 1983.{{cite book|url=https://www.memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/libros/pm.733/pm.733.pdf|last1=Liaudat|last2=Liaudat|last3=Pis Diez|first1=Santiago|first2=María Dolores|first3=Nayla|title=En las aulas y en las calles: Antecedentes, continuidades y rupturas de una década del movimiento estudiantil universitario argentino (2002-2011)|location=Buenos Aires|publisher=Ediciones Herramienta|date=2012|page=69|isbn=978-987-1505-27-2|language=es}}

The organization takes its name from the 1918 University Reform. During the storming of the National University of Córdoba, student protestors ripped off the curtains of the Aula Magna and waved them as flags – the curtains were purple, the same color as the stoles of the Catholic clerics who ran the university. Purple thus became the identifying color of supporters of the reform, which sought to democratize universities and end the Church's involvement in public higher education.{{cite book|title=La Franja. De la experiencia universitaria al desafío del poder|last=Beltrán|first=Mónica|date=2013|location=Buenos Aires|publisher=Aguilar|isbn=9870429432|language=es}}

Franja Morada's "mesa nacional" has a secretary general and three adjunct secretaries. Elections to national authorities take place every two years. Since 2022, the secretary general has been Gastón Soler, of the National University of Córdoba. Despite being affiliated to the UCR, it is institutionally autonomous.

Internationally, Franja Morada is affiliated to the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY).{{cite news|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/176763-quisieron-volver-y-no-pudieron|work=Página 12|title=Quisieron volver y no pudieron|last=Abrevaya|first=Sebastián|date=24 February 2019|access-date=1 October 2022|language=es}}