#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ARGENTINA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Argentina: Rosario Anarchist Federation: 20 years of 2001: the validity of the popular struggle (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]

 Two decades have passed since the popular rebellion that marked a milestone in

the recent political history of our country. An outbreak, which as such, was the
result of an accumulation of systematic attack on the situation in which those of
us below live daily; as a result of the policies systematically implemented since
the dictatorship to impose an economic and social model that benefits the
concentrated sectors of the economy, that reinforces the economic-productive
matrix of the country and that favors especially speculative financial capital,
hegemonic at that time in the reality of the country.
A lot of analyzes have been made of that feat and the years that followed. It is
difficult to take stock of what we won and the outcome of many of the proposals
and proposals - both demanding and organizational - that were made in those years.
We all know by now that the "let everyone go" was partially materialized
(Bullrich, López Murphy, Aníbal Fernández, Gustavo Beliz are still on stage),
that much of the struggle was institutionalized and that today we are at levels
of poverty and precariousness that refer us to those times.
It is important to highlight some elements to take into account, which led to
that feat of popular rebellion.
First of all, that context exposed the firmness with which the political class
and the dominant sectors exhausted all resources in order to save the
representative democratic system and institutions, in a context of emptiness and
social calamity.
On the other hand, that situation also exhibited the always latent decision of
the State to crush the rebellion and the social outbreak - looting, cacerolazos,
pickets, mobilizations - at any cost, killing dozens of people, taking federal
forces out onto the streets and even evaluating the possibility of commanding the
army if the situation required it. Situation that was repeated innumerably during
these twenty years by all the provincial and national governments, even today we
see it in fierce repression in Chubut to the popular struggle against mega-mining.
We also have to emphasize that, although there was an effervescent social
climate, of great resistance to each adjustment measure, there was a lack of
articulation and coordination between the popular sectors and their
organizations, which we would define as a Front of Oppressed Classes, either
among the neighborhood movements, indigenous peoples organizations, student
groups and the most combative unions, which was later felt in the days after the
presidential resignations, a space that was filled by the neighborhood assemblies
but did not become superior.
But the central point of that rebellion, which leaves lessons to this day, in the
current struggles, has to do with the validity of direct action as a method of
struggle and organization to resist and advance against the project of society of
those from above. that it does not include us at all and that day by day it
raises worse living conditions for the popular sectors.
Struggle, organization, projection, class independence are some of the premises
that the experience of 2001 reinforces us and that must challenge us in these times.

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