#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ARGENTINA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Argentina, FA Rosario: (Situation August 2022) - "TO STRENGTHEN THE POPULAR MOBILIZATION TO PUT A BRAKE ON THE ADJUSTMENT" (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 It is known that the friend of the US embassy, Sergio Massa, backed by the

establishment and concentrated economic groups (Pampa Energía, Grupo Petersen,
Macro, Grupo América, Pan American Energy), did not come to redistribute wealth
or fight to capital. We also know that he is a kind of pragmatic liberal, without
problems applying shock policies, without problems "taking the army out into the
streets", as he once said on the campaign trail. Even on this occasion, his ads
only aimed to position himself As a representative of the interests of the
dominant sectors, we must be alert. ---- Massa ascends as the last blow of the
government coalition, both to save Alberto's governability, and to apply the
measures that Cristina does not want to assume due to conditions with her portion
of the electorate. The move, defined in the dome of the Front of All, aims to
install Massa as a conciliatory figure in the political sphere, and pleasing to
business chambers. He is the one who will "take the bull by the horns" and
advance the program demanded by the IMF, whose consequences we have repeated
hundreds of times.

This is how an adjustment for inflation and tariff hikes has been deepening plain
and simple, with income that continues to be behind with respect to the daily
increase in prices of the basic basket. Let us remember that the accumulated
inflation in 2022 reached 46.2% and the year-on-year rate already exceeds 71%,
generating conditions for micro-devaluations month by month. The management of
this "crisis" by the different governments has not stopped deepening, with those
at the bottom getting worse and worse. Between adjustment measures and palliative
measures to cushion the economic blow, policies of subsidies for the unemployed
and bonuses will be the order of the day, at the same time that they will try to
stimulate domestic consumption so as not to fall into a new recession. All this
thought in view of the elections, it is known that the political horizon of the
governments is always the next elections, and this is not an exception for the
Front of All. There are no longer even government programs according to party
platforms. Reminiscent of the last days of the Cambiemos government, these recent
movements are swerves to stay in power.

We have insisted for several FAR positions on the need to set limits today[on the
Government], to mark the field tomorrow[whoever takes office in 2023]. This
commitment to maintain and accumulate a presence on the street, by the labor
movement and social organizations, requires giving strength to measures such as
those of last August 17, which, by the way, the Government tried by all means to
deactivate until the last moment.

That which appeared to be support for the Government and a really harmless action
against the price makers and exporters of grains, basically was the escape valve
of most of the unions, in a context where the bases, the bottom, are warmed up
There is accumulated anger over meager wages and not being able to make ends
meet, because of our increasingly precarious working conditions, because in
popular neighborhoods throughout the country we cannot fill our plates or access
basic necessities. Thus, a few weeks ago there began to be a climate similar to
that of the "atrilazo de la CGT" of 2017. And although a good part of the union
leaders decided without consulting Alberto to give a truce after the appearance
of Massa, this does not seem to be enough even to arrive with "social peace" at
the end of the year.

It is also worth mentioning that a series of unions insisted on maintaining the
measure, with the intention of deepening the tenor. In the same week of the
mobilization, sectoral strikes stood out, for example that of teachers, banks and
courts throughout the country, and state strikes in several provinces. It was not
even a friendly measure for the governing sectors, since even the CGT document
lukewarmly calls on "the political actors with representative responsibility[to
abandon]the petty electoral confrontation for the benefit of individual interests."

Likewise, it is worth highlighting the confluence of the piqueteros organizations
that joined this day, within the framework of massive mobilizations that have
been developing in the face of the systematic attack on the living conditions of
those who currently live in the poorest neighborhoods.

A separate paragraph merits the absurdity of some calls for the mobilization of
the 17th, with exacerbated speech and patriotic symbology by certain guild
leaders. Not only is this not received as a problem of "national character" by
the bulk of the workers, but it is also out of tune and out of place with the
social climate and the reality of the popular sectors, which more than " the
homeland" what really worries us is making ends meet. In addition, we must not
forget that the owners of the patriotic symbology - at least in recent years -
are none other than the reactionary right wing nostalgic for the coup. Contrary
to this, the task of our militancy has to aim at promoting those class and
supportive elements of each guild. A mobilization, a cut or a strike are
expressions of the anger from below, there you have to contribute forces.

These are not times for pettiness. The social conditions of those below worsen
day by day, and while we are plagued by hunger and poverty, those above seek
sacrifice and understanding. The political caste as a whole -the Government and
the opposition- ask for patience while living in luxury and opulence, preserving
the interests of the concentrated sectors of the economy: miners, planting pools,
bankers and large price makers such as food and large supermarket chains. This
economic inequality, poverty wages and the systematic underfunding of essential
public services do nothing more than aggravate fragmentation and generate greater
social violence, configuring a complex scenario where anti-poor, anti-picketer
and anti-union discourses emerge and are articulated; while preparing for a
structural adjustment. That is why the unity of those from below must also give
the ideological struggle, trying to counteract the explicit intention of placing
the workers as the culprits of this situation.

If you want to build a unity from direct action from the bulk of the workers' and
social organizations, if you want to generate conditions to deepen a plan of
progressive struggle, these are not times for sectarianism or cutting yourself
off. Sharing the street with unions that have not mobilized for a long time,
constitutes a propitious scenario to overflow and transcend the corset that those
same lukewarm union leaderships try to impose. To reach a General Strike we must
travel this path and push from below. The majority of the workers and popular
sectors are having a very bad time. The answer must go in that direction. That
only the establishment parties and the big economic groups care about governability.

GENERAL STOP NOW!!
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A STRONG PEOPLE!!
PUT UP AND FIGHTING!!

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