2024-10-25 11:20:00
By PSTU – Argentina
The situation of hunger and growing poverty increasingly affects the entire working class and popular sectors, the tariffs for services are priceless. The same thing happens with transportation fares and rents, in the midst of an economic recession with inflation.
Let those who caused it pay for the crisis
The only beneficiaries of this crisis are large companies, both in the financial sector and multinationals. Not only did they draft the DNU and the Basic Law, but they ordered their puppet Milei to advance with the deregulation of the state, increase the repressive apparatus and try to advance with labor and pension reforms. They are the ones who “take it with the shovel” when more than half the country is below the poverty line. So the money is there and that’s where we have to strike and recover everything that was stolen from us. Along with this, stop paying national and provincial fraudulent foreign debt.
Popular resistance grows and university students enter the scene
Faced with adjustment, repression and hunger, sectors are starting to wake up.
The great oil workers’ strike for the wage increase, with pickets in the ports for 7 days, showed that Milei can be beaten. The Patagonian oil tankers did the same against the income tax, the sailors of the freezer fleets, the workers of the Bonaparte Hospital against its closure.
Pensioners tell us that the protocol [seguridad] Bullrich defeats him on the street and with character. Solidarity is demonstrated in events such as the one that occurred in Santa Fe with the oil and government workers’ strike for the freedom of Amsafe prisoners (teachers). This is why the struggles of students and university professors across the country have the support of many sectors.
October 30: organize the fight and its defense
The CGT and the CTA gave this government respite and time. But the anger begins to grow. That is why it is essential to organize and direct it to confront this government and its business masters.
Holding resolution meetings in every workplace is an urgent necessity. May the union leaders (from the delegates [de base] Even the board of directors calls them! If they don’t, let’s walk past them like we do at train turnstiles.
Active solidarity is possible and steps are being taken in this direction. Unity in action is the key to not remaining isolated. Coordination of ongoing struggles with a common list of demands must be the task of building a general strike from below. This is why the day of the 30th with the national strike of the transport unions and the state ATE unions should be a call to carry out every type of action against the government: from assemblies, to demonstrations, to pickets, to sabotage and to every initiative of struggle which takes up the tradition of the workers’ movement, including the formation of defense commissions against state repression and the creation of parallel medical care rooms.
Stop going to Congress! We must overthrow Milei’s plan of adjustment, plunder and repression
Once again it is proven that Congress only makes laws for the rich. While they deceive us with their alleged parliamentary strategies, the hunger continues. This is why we must ask to go to the Plaza de Mayo: that the anger be expressed there. We have to go en masse and with our work tools, trucks and buses. [ómnibus]to defend our interests.
It is healthcare, education, the real increase in salaries and pensions or Milei, while in Peronism, in all its aspects, there are those who support the government, [otros] truce or they want to decompress the struggle with the 2025 elections. Therefore, the working class will have to think about how to get rid of this government.
From the PSTU we propose to return to the route of the roads as in December 2001 and December 2017.
Fight for a working class government, to free ourselves from imperialism and build a socialist society, without exploited or oppressed, in unity with our people [hermanos] Latin American peoples.
Active solidarity, unity in action and coordination of struggles!
For an active general strike!
PSTU – LIT-CI
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