It has been 49 years since the genocidal coup d'état that resulted in
the disappearance of 30,400 comrades. It was a systematic plan thatincluded the theft of babies, murder, rape, clandestine detention
centers, torture, and other atrocities. ---- Our history as oppressed
classes tells us where we come from and teaches us where we are going.
In the wake of the Cordobazo, the Rosariazo, even the Rodrigazo, and the
various processes of struggle that those from below promoted during the
1960s and 1970s, the labor movement, the student movement, and the
various organized political expressions of the expanding popular field
were strengthened under the banner of class independence.
The genocidal coup of March 24, 1976, curtailed this advance of the
oppressed classes, strengthened in organization and combativeness, which
expressed itself through occupations, land takeovers, and the subsequent
repression of the oppressed. Factories and other workplaces, massive
mobilizations, and the forging of political organizations.
This was a genocidal policy implemented by Yankee imperialism in Latin
America through Plan Condor to keep its backyard peaceful. This plan
consisted of fostering military dictatorships that would lash out with
blood and fire against the social and political organizations that had
managed to establish themselves as instruments of progress, advancing
revolutionary programs, and jeopardizing the interests of the state and
concentrated economic power. This systematic plan of human extermination
and state terrorism was based on the imposition of the neoliberal
economic model, which sought to destroy industry, provide cheap labor to
big business, and tie the country's economy to the interests of foreign
capital.
Among this generation of social and political fighters who wanted to
change everything, anarchist comrades from the Uruguayan Anarchist
Federation exiled in Buenos Aires, from the Libertarian Resistance
organization, and comrades from the Colonia Lola neighborhood and union
activists in Córdoba also fought. A new generation of organized
anarchist militancy emerged during the 1960s and 1970s and rooted its
political proposition in processes of mobilization and organization
driven from within the people. These comrades tenaciously resisted the
dictatorship, building popular organizations in unions and places of
study, and they also suffered fierce persecution, torture, murder, and
disappearances at the hands of the dictatorship. The history of our
movement is rich in experiences of struggle and resistance, despite
attempts by those in power and other sectors to obscure the struggles of
our comrades on the map, because they are uncomfortable, because their
proposal is completely at odds with this system of domination.
Today, the political and economic project of Milei and his henchmen
revives the worst legacy of the reactionary right in our country. It is
a government subservient to Yankee imperialism and the concentrated
sectors of the economy at the expense of attacks on the living
conditions of those at the bottom and the surrender of natural
resources. Through the pulverizing of purchasing power, adjustments in
all areas of the public sector, an exponential increase in poverty,
labor flexibilization, attacks on unions, pension cuts, among countless
direct attacks on those at the bottom, the government and the ruling
class seek to eliminate the collective sense of the working class,
promoting individualism, thereby guaranteeing the exploitation and
subjugation of those at the bottom. All of this with the complicity of
various institutional political sectors, which, despite masquerading as
"opposition," only pave the way for the government's advance, as
evidenced by Congress's approval of a new secret pact with the IMF.
AGAINST THE REPRESSION OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY
It was to be expected that this government, at the service of financial
capital, a puppet of Yankee imperialism, and extremely anti-popular,
would deepen its repressive features, and it is to be expected that it
will attempt a greater advance. Milei's program entails the crushing of
wage-earning sectors' purchasing power and the extreme precarization of
living conditions for those at the bottom, fostering exploitation by
employers, absolute subordination to the interests of Yankee imperialism
with the surrender of natural resources, and a state at its most repressive.
The attempted assassination of photographer Pablo Grillo during the
repression of the retirees' demonstration on March 12 is evidence of the
repressive intentions of this government under the leadership of
Patricia Bullrich. The massive mobilizations of retirees, also supported
by other sectors, have been important expressions of resistance, with
repressive responses from the national government. This resulted in the
gendarmerie firing a tear gas canister directly at Pablo Grillo's head,
causing a very serious injury. This is compounded by the hundreds of
others injured and detained as a result of the repression.
The official discourse is one of complete justification and apology for
the violence of the state's repressive apparatus. We constantly see and
hear government officials, led by Patricia Bullrich, vociferating in the
media, defending the atrocities committed by the repressive forces and
even intensifying the narrative of persecution and repression against
those who struggle.
We have already been denouncing this, along with a wide range of
grassroots organizations: the dictatorship's repressive apparatus was
NOT DISMANTLED DURING REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. Police harassment in
neighborhoods, cases of trigger-happy police, forced disappearances,
torture, and murder in prisons and police stations during every
government since 1983 make this clear. Not to mention that far from
narrowing social inequalities during these years of "democracy,"
capitalism's violence against the oppressed classes has been brutally
deepening. There is no way out for those at the bottom in the
institutional game of the State.
OUR BEST TRIBUTE IS TO CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE OF THE 30,400
State terrorism, through its most vile methods, attempted to discipline
working people, students, and those who sought to build a more
egalitarian society. However, our comrades, social fighters who fell
while confronting the dictatorship, transcended history, the collective
memory of those who refuse to give up and live within the daily popular
struggles that we, those below, wage against this unjust and oppressive
system. That is why it is necessary to reclaim the militancy of our
comrades detained, tortured, and disappeared by the genocidal
civic-ecclesiastical-military dictatorship to confront the struggles
that confront us today. Even more so in such a context of attacks from
those above.
We cannot lose sight of the fact that their struggle is still
unfinished, that their fight was for a social revolution, to build a
libertarian socialist society, without hunger or misery for the people.
We must take up this revolutionary project again, since for the
oppressed classes, capitalism can only offer exploitation, misery, and
death. We must recover the banners of organization and struggle for
social revolution, for socialism in freedom.
AGAINST THE REPRESSION OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY!
ORGANIZATION AND STRUGGLE TO CONFRONT THE ATTACKS FROM THOSE ABOVE!
30,400 DETAINED AND DISAPPEARED PRESENT!
FOR SOCIALISM IN FREEDOM, LONG LIVE ANARCHY!
We remember our missing anarchist comrades, especially those who
belonged to RL (Libertarian Resistance), FAU (Uruguayan Anarchist
Federation), and anarchist union activists and those from the
territorial experience in Colonia Lola (Córdoba). Comrades who gave
their lives to strengthen social struggles and the construction of
Libertarian Socialism. From the specific anarchist organizations of
Argentina, we know that the best tribute is to continue their struggle.
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