#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ARGENTINA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Argentina, #Rosario, FAR: -September Position- No truce in the face of the needs of the people (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The scenario this September does not differ much from what we anticipated at the

beginning of the year, when the adjustment and the policies promoted by the IMF
began to deepen. We find ourselves in the last third of the year with more than
half the population below the poverty line, rising inflation, growing social
fragmentation, persistent inequality and constant and devastating degradation of
the environment as well as social violence shot in all directions. To this must
be added the advance of speeches and proposals from the right, in a general shift
of institutional politics to more ultra-liberal and anti-popular positions. ----
This critical economic and social context, where the above does not promote any
relief measure, has its counterpart at the political level. There we find a
scenario of "regulated polarization" -always speaking in electoral terms- where
there is no bet on an "extreme polarization" between Milei or Gómez Centurión and
the electoral Trotskyist left, but of the hardest sectors within the two majority
political blocs. of the country, such as Kirchnerism in the Frente de Todos and
the sector of Macri, Patricia Bullrich and López Murphy in Together for Change.
In this sense, the attack against CFK stressed this implicit agreement of
regulated polarization, for which the political class responded in the expected
way to restore it.
For the sectors organized around Kirchnerism, the legal case against Cristina
represented and represents a unifying axis for the 2023 elections, a "political
cause" that allows them to differentiate themselves from the evident adjustment
that Massa has been implementing, from his own coalition of government. Even the
same political sector of Kirchnerism that discursively opposed the agreement with
the IMF -expressed in Máximo Kirchner's bombastic resignation as head of the
bloc- is the same one that celebrates and tries to justify Massa's trip to meet
with the Secretary of the Treasury. of the USA and with the same director of the IMF.
The basic idea is to leave behind the electoral debacle of 2021, to reconfigure
the armed front itself, despite the failure of the Government and its economic
policies. The objective may be a CFK candidacy, beating Massa's aspirations
internally, or preparing himself as an opposition option for 2027, after the
exhaustion of a possible JxC government.
On the opposite side, in fear of "Cristina's return", the scenario repositions
the hard sectors of the PRO and JxC, who try to expose the "lukewarm" of
"measured" positions such as those of Larreta, Vidal or Carrió or radicalism
itself. In addition, JxC is more concerned with debating the viability of a PASO
in 2023 to resolve their dispute, than with the dramatic social condition of the
country.
The curious thing about this situation is that the adjustment that Massa has
already faced and his evident genuflection to the US and the IMF, leaves JxC
without a clear policy to differentiate itself in the face of 2023. The same
situation happens on Massa's side. The commitment to a project that stops the
dynamics of adjustment - ​​more typical of macrismo - loses its reason for being
with the exercise of power by Massa. Therefore, if the economic is not going to
express ample differences, the political issue is the one that becomes more
relevant. In this terrain, the Kirchnerist sectors of the FdT and the "hawks" of
JxC gain positions.
In this framework, the agenda of resistance to adjustment tries to be replaced by
slogans that only matter to the political and institutional apparatus. In the
case of Rosario, this situation puts a stop to the immense union and social
mobilization prior to the closure of some paritarias, where thousands of workers
and unions, with different imprints, joined in a mobilization against the
adjustment in the province. In this context, the Perotti government decided to
move forward with the adjustment and discipline of public sector workers and
teachers by applying discounts for days of unemployment. The provincial leaders
of the public sector unions (ATE and UPCN), took advantage of the latter, and
closed an unfavorable agreement for all the workers, even demonstrating the
closeness they have with the provincial government.
In this way, it is to be expected that the political class will try to channel
discontent through mobilizations with a clear adherence of a politicized and
citizen-oriented middle-class militancy, behind axes of a more ideological
partisan nature. In this sense, it is also possible that some union and social
leaders, identified with Kirchnerism, try to prolong this "social truce" with the
national government and with the same price markers for which they mobilized a
month ago.  For example, the brake on the bloodletting that constituted the
announced departures from the FdT of sectors concerts criticism of the
government's actions. This in the midst of a resounding loss of purchasing power
by the popular sectors, with year-on-year inflation projected above 95%.
The slogan of "defense of democracy and institutions" expressed today by sectors
of the FdT and JxC are not really representative of the feelings of the majority
of popular sectors. Not only because this representative democracy has been
guaranteeing little or nothing of the basics to live for the oppressed classes,
but also because constitutional guarantees are not really at stake, something
that was noticed during the times of the carapintadas uprisings or during the
State of Site of De la Rua. These guarantees are also very distant from the
reality of the popular neighborhoods. Here we highlight what happens in the city
of Rosario, where on average so far this year there is more than one death per
day. That said, we believe that it is time to build unity from below, in the
sectors in struggle as a fundamental tool to stop the progress of the adjustment
and in order to improve the situation in future times. It is a context that
deserves a will for collective construction and unity for the struggle. We must
highlight the true agenda of those from below, propose an alternative struggle
regardless of partisan interests. It is a primary task to transcend and go beyond
social protest, around putting limits on the brutal adjustment of those above,
not only to put a stop to cuts in essential public services but also to demand
the reopening of imperative parity so as not to continue losing purchasing power.
of wages in this inflationary escalation.

For the construction of a strong people!

Up those who fight!

Anarchist Federation of Rosario

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