CONTENT:
EDITORIAL: SIX MONTHS OF PATIENCESOLIDARITY - HISTORY
Reading and debate workshop - ACTIVITIES
Solidarity with the comrades from Switzerland - INTERNATIONAL
No pact on layoffs - OPINION
The murder of Sacco and Vanzetti and its repercussions in the Argentine
Region - HISTORY
ORGANIZATION TO RESIST AND ADVANCE - OPINION
They were not alone - INTERNATIONAL
EDITORIAL: SIX MONTHS OF PATIENCE
Enrique Malatesta, that prolific international anarchist agitator, who
helped organize and even wrote the statutes of the first union of bakers
in Argentina, said that "The limit of the oppression of a government is
the force that the people are capable of opposing it," we can say that
we are giving the patience of the people to the new government a
generous truce, despite how hard it squeezes us, adjusts and cuts, both
in benefits and social achievements that until very recently seemed
indisputable, as well as in works and services that were generally taken
care of by the complex state apparatus.
Entering his sixth month of leading a State that he claimed to want to
destroy, the self-proclaimed libertarian liberal continues to have in
his favor the patience, passivity and complicity (such as that of the
unions) of the social sectors that suffer and will suffer the most from
the economic measures of this diverse alliance of various right-wing
sectors that support and write the agenda for the government.
The balance of this first semester is favorable only for the richest
sectors of the concentrated economy that, despite having bet on the two
presidential candidates, quickly aligned itself with the concrete
possibilities of an economic program much more beneficial than the one
that Peronism could offer. Specifically, the government has been
fulfilling what it promised, only with a lie in between. The vaunted
"caste" that would pay the cost of the adjustment was not the
politicians but ended up being the common people, since it unloaded the
entire weight of the brutal adjustment on the most disadvantaged sectors
with the least capacity for resistance: retirees, informal workers (more
than 50% of the employed workforce), public sector employees where more
than 25,000 layoffs were recorded and the president raised the stakes by
promising to double that figure to 50,000 more layoffs and now also
formal employees in the private sector, since layoffs up to March
reached 95,000 workers on the street, according to the report prepared
by the Ministry of Labor. Like a permanent drip, this figure continues
to increase in all branches of production and services, with, at times,
the complicit silence of the structures of unionism that shouldered the
campaign of the Peronist party that lost the elections and after that,
already with the new government, they made threats, a hasty strike and
another without mobilization and little else and they took a nap to wait
for better times, while in a disorderly retreat the workers observe the
party that the bosses are having.
In the sector of the retired, the minimum pensions fell by 17% and in
the accumulated they have a collapse of 33%, which does not even cover
the poverty line that the INDEC marks, this situation has been denounced
by the comrades of Retired Insurgentes who demand a minimum pension with
an amount that at least reaches to cover the basic basket of a senior
citizen.
As for poverty, which continues to increase and has already reached
55.5% of the population, it added 4 million people to the sad number in
these 6 months, which gives us nearly 25 million poor people in a
country that is completely rich in resources and food. This figure
includes 8 million Argentines who are directly destitute*, with all that
this brings with it, such as problems of child malnutrition, health,
etc. Although poverty is also a drag from the previous government and
from further back as well, and is possibly one of the many reasons that
led to this kind of general disenchantment, which propelled the
anarcho-capitalist to power.
The other leg of this social experiment in which we are immersed, in
addition to the setback in social and labor protections for the majority
of the population, is what those in power call the "cultural battle"
that they intend to wage against everything that opposes the
ultra-liberal economic and ultra-conservative ideological project that
the government and its alliance of right-wing forces support, the
discursive and at any time institutional persecution against social
movements as well as human rights groups, the feminist movement, and
environmental struggles, the latter especially after deregulating
environmental protection policies through the approval of the RIGI that
will enable mega-mining systems resisted in many towns.
The unprecedented and tremendous aggression against the working class
and the people, the total absence of sensitivity or proposals for
solutions that they boast about in the micro world of the president and
his sycophants is totally outrageous. They celebrate the adjustment and
the layoffs of state workers and announce economic improvements that no
one perceives, all this under an unverifiable promise of future
prosperity that would come with the predominance of the market after a
total change in Argentina's social model. Behind all these numbers and
figures there is a people who are already suffering and who will begin
to feel them more and more, in the middle and behind waiting for their
turn to return to power a weak and erratic opposition of politicians
that generated most of the repressive policies that the government will
wield today against those of us who oppose it.
* According to data from the UCA Social Observatory referring to the
first quarter of 2024
https://organizacion-obrera.fora.com.ar/2024/08/08/seis-meses-de-paciencia/
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