2023-05-25 13:34:46
Another anniversary of May 25, 1810 is celebrated, and it finds us with the bosses’ politicians competing to see who is the most country-seller: from Javier Milei with his dollarization, to Minister Sergio Massa permanently on his knees before the IMF. They all demonstrate the willingness of the ruling classes to hand over the country to foreign capital -of which they were always minor partners-, and deepen the brutal looting, leading us once again to be a colony. Faced with such a situation, the workers and the people must take control of the country to change this destiny.
——
By Neto -PSTU Argentina
In 1810, the sectors that had suffered for centuries from Spanish oppression took advantage of the European conflicts to throw off the colonial yoke. That gauchos, natives or women have been protagonists of the fourteen years of liberation war is no coincidence: Juana Azurduy or María Remedios del Valle were not simple exceptions, but the demonstration that the revolution that won independence, as well as the What remains for us to do cannot be done without women, native peoples, Afro-descendants.
The main sacrifice was made by the popular sectors, the intellectuals and professionals, such as Moreno, Belgrano or San Martín himself -who saw how the backwardness of the institutions of the empire and the nobility prevented them from developing their careers- put their brave brilliance. However, it was the richest sectors that ended up occupying the place left by the colonial power.
From these sectors, after decades of civil wars, the already unified ruling class arose that created an Argentina that produced agriculture and received goods and investments, subordinating the development of the country to the needs of foreign capital, first English and then Yankee, to which bound in perpetuity. In this way, it did nothing more than reproduce the conditions that were lived under Spanish rule, condemning our country to backwardness and the popular sectors to live threatened by hunger and misery. But the rancher bosses and the agricultural oligarchy could not enjoy much of their victory, because economic development meant that their businesses needed free workers to make them work, which gave rise to a new social actor: the working class.
The workers must resume the task
As foreign capital gained strength in the country, the ruling classes became its appendage, guarantors of its rule, while the working class gained strength and cohesion, repeatedly defeating the attacks of the bosses and The imperialism. And although the exploitation and permanent looting of foreign capital have only deepened, advancing on our rights, the political and social strength of the working class and its struggles means that currently the bosses’ politicians cannot govern the country without tending to agreements with their leaders and organizations.
Precisely, if the national and foreign capital that dominates us is still standing, it is thanks to the permanent betrayal of those leaders, who have made a profession, a way of life, of the monopoly of their positions. Thus, it comes to light how the sectors that live from posts in institutions (whether union, political or legislative) have transformed into the opposite of what they were in 1810: from being a revolutionary sector to being a conservative sector.
The working class has the historic duty to resume the struggle to free our country and our continent from the domination of foreign capital, ending capitalism and the bosses’ order, from which we can only expect national submission and misery for the workers/ ace and the people For this, we must recover our organizations as tools of struggle, sweeping away from them the sectors outside the class that, by living from their posts, need to sustain the colonial capitalism that subjugates us, and imposing workers’ democracy so that the leaders are controlled by the bases. And, above all, forging with its best fighters a political organization whose program responds to these historical tasks. The PSTU is devoted to the construction of this organization, and invites those who want to end the domination of national and foreign capital over our country and our class to join the task.
Published in Socialist Advanced of the PSTU of Argentina
#Argentinian #years #Revolution #revolution #independence #needed