WORLD WORLDWIDE ARGENTINA News Journal Update - (en) Argentina, Rosario FAR: Position January 2024 - THE ONLY POSSIBLE PATH: BUILDING ORGANIZED RESISTANCE (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

As did not happen many years ago, this January there was no truce, but
it came in a context of upheaval and important concern with the measures
promoted by the government of Javier Milei and what they will bring in
the coming months. The shock was tremendous, even surpassing previous
analyzes of what this government would bring. The impact on our daily
lives is overwhelming, even though the toughest measures have not yet
been implemented. ---- In the last months of last year we advanced some
central issues that this government would implement. However, reality
exceeded what was anticipated. With the DNU and the package of laws
presented in Congress, the government seeks to modify long-held power
relations and quickly and effectively change course.
Today, just over a month after Javier Milei, along with his team and his
partners (Macristas and Menemistas), came to power, we can draw some
conclusions that, although provisional, can serve to guide our analysis.

-Milei and his team seek to step on the accelerator: measures such as
the DNU and the omnibus law point to a gross change in the rules of the
game in countless sectors and aspects. A disruptive way of dealing with
recent Argentine politics, where the adjustment and the constant and
gradual crisis were getting us used to the worsening of conditions. Even
different from the government of Mauricio Macri, where reforms were
sought, but more specific and progressive. It is a context, the current
one, where it is difficult to find a person who is not directly affected
by the government's measures.
- As we anticipated in previous analyses, it would indeed seem that the
alliance with the sector dominated by Mauricio Macri del Pro gave it
enough structure to continue betting on winning. And it is also possible
that Macri himself is executing a project that even surpasses Milei,
weaving his own strategy from the shadows, but with a lot of political
influence.
- A key point, necessary to highlight because it establishes a change
with the rhetoric of the last forty years, is an open contempt for
legality and the Constitution, as well as a constant search for greater
autonomy for the executive.
- Another interesting fact is the surprise and international interest
that Milei's election and government measures arouse. From the political
arc present at his inauguration, to the constant crossings on social
networks, Argentina becomes an experiment to be observed by the rest of
the planet.
- Apparent lack of concern or minimization by the government of the
immediate effects of the crisis. Obviously, the reading they make is
that they have enough support so that explosions or popular rebellions
of magnitude do not occur, beyond the organized protests that Bullrich
and his ministry seek to control with his repressive and persecutory
protocol. However, it is worth noting that the policy of increasing the
amount of misery implied by the universal child allowance and the
continuity of social plans indicate that there is also a reading of
which sectors may overflow more than desired. Meanwhile, beyond the
resounding loss of general purchasing power, both retirees and workers,
formal and informal, are the main affected.
- The national government and aligned provincial governments mark the
public sector as a scapegoat. Since the inauguration, this sector has
been suffering the greatest effects and, on the other hand, it is also
one of the most dynamic and present in sectoral and general struggles.
- It is not surprising that the government maintains the continuity of
the credit policy with the IMF, but it is surprising that the campaign
promises nevertheless become a strategy of increasing taxes as the main
means of fiscal adjustment. The increase in withholdings, the intention
to restore income tax and the general increase in taxes and services
marks this.
-Finally, also as we anticipated, the other side of this unbridled
adjustment and removal of rights is the growth of the repressive
strategy, focused mainly on the sectors organized with the circus
protocol to implement in the streets of the Federal Capital and the
criminal and economic persecution to organizations and their
representatives.

Faced with these abuses, we believe that it is important to analyze the
possible paths of response that have been outlined during the last month
and a half since the assumption of Javier Milei to the presidency and in
view of the National Strike on January 24:

The judicial path launched quickly and from various sectors. The
protections were promoted to put a stop to specific points of what was
established in the DNU of last December and which came into force on
December 29. Among them, those aimed at labor issues stand out, by the
CGT and the CTA, but being much broader, reaching the point that today
70% of the mega DNU is judicialized. Points on the reform of the State,
labor, foreign trade, bioeconomy, aviation, justice, health,
communication, sports and tourism are in different states within the
judicial path.

The parliamentary route. The extraordinary sessions that began to
operate this month with the purpose of discussing the so-called Omnibus
Law allow a platform for both the ruling party and the opposition to
present their positions on these measures. Beyond what happens on the
premises, representative democracy provides the rules of the game for
extreme delegation and the commitment of the "electorate" to make its
"representatives" defend their interests. Specifically, in general terms
it is a tug of war where the most disruptive thing was the government's
attitude of betting on everything or nothing, that is, on the law being
approved in its entirety. This would seem to be becoming relativized, we
believe from our perspective, more linked to the effect of repudiation
and the positions taken outside the legislature.

Path of partisan opposition and of referents, media and outraged
"citizens" on social networks. At this point we generally point out a
diverse number of demonstrations of rejection of the measures promoted
by the Milei government. On the one hand, repudiation on social
networks, campaigns to collect signatures (also virtual), dissemination
of data for debate with what is proposed by the government are common
currency, promoted both by militant sectors of progressivism, which
follow the same dynamic from the electoral period of 2023 as well as by
sectors that are now very affected in their specific conditions by the
package of measures. On the other hand, we find expressions in the media
from different political sectors, always in personalist and debate
terms, here it is worth highlighting the lukewarmness and even
deliberate silence of sectors of the outgoing government and the
immobile opposition of Kirchnerism and massism, which came out to brand
the General Strike measure called by the CGT as excessive. At this
point, we believe that almost all of the interventions are part of the
electoral dispute and the game of representation, seeking to reference
personalities rather than having a significant effect on reality.

Path of organization and struggle in resistance from popular sectors,
unions, etc.: the path of direct action as a strategy to resist and
confront the measures promoted. Here we can mention the initiatives
called by particularly affected sectors, both in terms of street
struggles and also in the formation of meeting bodies, assemblies and
organization in general. For example, actions promoted by tenants,
retirees, in defense of culture and science, just to name a few. On the
other hand, important sectors of social, picketing and territorial
organizations have been exponents of constant mobilization during this
month and a half. To this it is worth adding unionism, in different
expressions, regional or national, where particularly intense struggles
have developed. Especially the mobilization of December 27 to justice
promoted by the CGT and the next general strike on January 24. That
tool, the general strike at the national level, called by CGT and CTAs,
we understand is unbalancing and indispensable in this context. The fact
that a strike has not been called for 5 years undoubtedly also partly
explains why we are in this situation, however, it does not diminish the
importance and relevance of participating and going beyond the measure.

Are these opposite paths? Not necessarily. Without a doubt, the
seriousness of the events, the pressing emergencies, justify the
articulation of various avenues of action and in that sense we welcome
all the initiatives that in some way contribute to addressing them.
However, it is necessary to consider two things: on the one hand, what
strategies will contribute in the medium long term to building
resistance that is oriented towards strengthening the people and
building popular power, and which ones will contribute to the continuity
of the representative democratic game and its rules that They have
brought us this far. And on the other hand, what is the potential of
isolated actions, in the face of a wave of measures that specifically
attacks so many sectors and how much more could be achieved by uniting
the struggle in pursuit of unity.

Thus, from anarchism, with our strong conviction that the State and
Capitalism go hand in hand, that from the institutions of the system we
can only expect the prolongation of current conditions, we express that
it is time to organize the forces to the maximum. popular and
collaborate with unity to confront the ultraliberal advance from the
struggle in the street. Only with direct action, with the possibility
for our people to exercise their decision-making capacities and regain
their prominence, will we be able to put a stop to these measures and
those to come. This is not a time for sectarianism but for the broadest
unity. In that sense, we welcome the struggle plan promoted by the union
centers and believe that it is a step on the right path. For this
reason, we consider that the place of anarchists in this situation is to
participate and promote these measures, in the greatest possible arc of
unity and overflowing from below any attempt at a truce to adjustment,
hunger, unemployment, poverty and inequality. .

Anarchist Federation of Rosario, January 2024.

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