(en) Argentina, FORA - 1901 - 2014 - 113 years of struggle against Capital and its representatives (ca, )

The FORA, the genuine defender of the workers, is celebrating another year today. On May 
25, 1901, taking advantage of the holidays for the bourgeois celebration of the "May 
Revolution", workers organizations from different cities in the Argentina regions met to 
fulfill their aspirations of creating an organization which would synthesize all its human 
aspirations of solidarity and liberty. ---- From here, the Argentine Workers' Federation 
was formed - since 1904 called the Argentine Regional Workers' Federation, which 
immediately started to grow and promote the organization in all unions and workplaces, 
identifying the workers with their principles and methods of struggle. ---- We can say 
without a doubt that while the workers' movement was guided by the ideas of FORA, there 
was healthy trade union activity in the country, and through the Federation the workers 
brought their claims beyond mere economic or labor conquests, dedicating all their forces 
to the revolutionary struggle to end the current state of affairs.

We know of the heroic deeds of the proletariat of the Argentine region which showed its 
capacity for action and combativity against the capitalists and its guardian - the State. 
For this, the FORA was always persecuted in whatever form the capitalists imposes: in 
dictatorship and in democracy, with its members deported, jailed or asassainated, its 
offices closed or blown up, its press prohibited and attacked, under the Federation was 
almost completely destroyed.

With time, the State came to concilliation with the workers' movement, with a 
paternalistic attitude, reducing it to a mere instrument, useful and manageable for its 
ends. The experiences of the syndicalism which managed to win with the protection of the 
State and its partons, while FORA was repressed and prohibited, show us that legality, 
representation, negotiations with the Ministry of Labour as mediator, centralismo, and 
other characteristics of this traitor and concillitory tendency, are disastrous for 
workers and lead to ruin.

Today, the same as these workers who met on May 25, 1901, we continue maintaining free 
association, the resolution of our problems without intermediaries or representatives, 
solidarity between the exploited and the struggle for the integral emancipation of all 
human beings. These postulates, far from having expire, acquire a vital importance in 
these moments when persecution rules, there is a union dictatorship, state repression, the 
loss of workers' conquests which were gained by the dedication of comrades from past eras.

Therefore it is more necessary than ever to return to solidary practices and to build 
bonds between equals, with hierarchies. Only that way we can start to change the course of 
this reality which day by day overwhelms and distress us more and more.

We invite you to participate actively in FORA, to recouperate the decision making power in 
our lives and to build on our own, without delegating away our responsibilities, on the 
road towards the total transformation of the inhuman society which reduces us to goods.

Solidarity and Direct Action against the State and Capital!
For Anarcho-Communism

Argentine Regional Workers' Federation
International Workers' Associatio

(en) Argentina, FORA, - In dictatorship or democracy, workers are always punished (ca)

On this commemorative day, we raise our voice again not just to remember the 30,000 
disappeared from the military dictatorship, but also to denounce the injustices of 
democracy. It is our responsibility, 38 years of the military coup, fighting against the 
obvious intent to silence us who still have the exploiters. ---- Those who disobey and we 
realize that direct action is the only way to visualize our claims, we are punished 
cruelly. There are many cases in which we saw that this works well, especially in times of 
crisis in which the dissatisfaction of the population is inevitable and abundant 
repressive forces prepared for the overflow of society. For any situation of protest, 
repression directly. The most recent attack on the labor movement, in the case of oil 
tankers of Las Heras, sentenced to life imprisonment for taking strike in which claimed 
against income tax for the move to permanent staff of outsourced and enter collective 
bargaining agreement union tankers to collect the full amount of the activity performed.

But then this, for those who do not work because they live the efforts of others, there is 
no right worth when it comes to rushing against the economic system, against their 
profits. In this democracy, it punishes the worker claimed, severely depriving him of his 
liberty. Life imprisonment to workers for organizing and hit the economic system with the 
strength of their actions, required to declare workers through torture and repression for 
those who are in solidarity with them.

So the FORA convenes an international day of protest against
oil de las Heras for the same March 24, calling for the solidarity of all
workers in the world who seek social emancipation.

(en) Argentina, Statement on the protests of the repressive apparatus of the state (ca)

In these days of democracy shows that many do not want to face see, with a new
disappeared, with the confidence of a large segment on the left in the "working" of
security, with the distraction generated by both the Government and the opposition, etc.
etc ... receive and publish the news CORREPI (Coordinadora Against Police and
Institutional Repression) on protests repressive state apparatus. - (3/10/12) PRESS:
underclass, NEVER WORKERS. - Condemns the coup CORREPI APPLIANCE Repressive state. - The
conflict over pay prefects and gendarmes, which has spread throughout the country, and
threatens to extended to other repressive forces, reveals the true despicable nature of
their function. ---- With this mutiny, a falsehood is revealed: there is no
professionalization and democratization of the repressive forces as a guarantee of social
peace. Repression is, first of all, expression of the monopoly of state violence in a
society class privileges.

The nature of the claim (strictly monetary) also puts
Evidence another falsehood: not sindicalizando forces
repression as achieved disrupt his enormous capacity for violence
over the poor people. Unionization, only enhances their relationship with
the State, but does not change the perverse nature of their rationale.

The prefects, gendarmes, and the rest of the oppressors, not
workers, it is not a strike, but a mutiny or riot. The
obtaining their goals rather than closer to the people, the
further emboldened to exercise the function for which there are:
repress.

The fact that the police come largely from people not
means nothing. It is the existence that determines their consciousness. And the
existence is not determined by the perception of a salary
but by the social function exercised. One who, belonging to
rise to the working class, becomes police, a police
bourgeoisie and not a worker. All police are trained to
repress the people when it is mobilized for their just
claims. Also, know that governments change, but the
police remains.

The relationship between the ruling class and the poor is a
class war, sometimes more obvious, others more subtle forms.
Although disguised by the speeches that appeal to social peace
social justice, equality of opportunity and rights,
the natural domain of a human being over others, not
means that, because the repressive forces encaren a claim
wage, have left for a second, his dog function
guardian. Biting and play the role of the dog, does not mean being the
master. The dog belongs to love, obey him, meets.

It is the very nature of his despicable role, which becomes
untenable the argument of "if we win, if aparateamos, if
autodepuren get that organized and defend, as
workers, then we break the oppressive system. "

Almost as "logically absurd" that want professional and democratic.

We face those who postulate the possibilism, that despicable
position to legitimize capitalism from alleged positions
progressive, ie those who do not dare to be openly
capitalists.

All experiences of unionization (in Argentina there are several
groups or associations of police and members of the unit
repressive state) lead inexorably to improve capacity
fire, and the conditions in which they practice repression.

The capitalist system is unthinkable without disciplined workers
to tolerate levels of exploitation and alienation. Any hint
lifting causes the release of the pack. Because they can
without workers still need more police,
gendarmes, all pedigree prefects and the like.

Claims for pay, are shown on the right, and for some
also left as a labor complaint over. With wives and children
columns of uniformed applauding vociferously while entering
obstruct traffic, the picture is very similar to the many
claims that workers are formulated.

The difference - among others in these claims is that no one
legitimized with bullets and threatening to curb gases.

Claims paid by the prefects and company, leading to serious
concerns of officials and legislators, trying
rapidly dissolve the conflict fulfilling each
requirements, unlike when operating on the crop
salaries of public employees.

They work in factories and shops, working in the works
and in the countryside, in the mountains and on the water, working in offices
and hospitals, in public and private spaces.

As part of the repressive apparatus, not working, is satisfied
FUNCTION to discipline and control those who work, impacting
in the subjectivity of the working class.

That is, with or without professionalism, with or without instruction
democratic, with or without human rights courses, with or without
unionization. In all cases, those who fulfill this role
inherent monopoly of force by the state, receive
also other favors from the same state when examining
behaviors (impunity, advantages, benefits procedural assistance
legal, etc). And it is no coincidence that demand more benefits go
becomes more visible when the need for the government of the day has
of which the minister called her "confidence forces", the
"Professionals", the "not corrupt" to invade neighborhoods,
patrol the streets and prevent, with uniformed invasion, any
more glimpse of popular organization.

What really matters is that you are guaranteed that monopoly
exercise of force to deploy against the masses.

Remember that those who claim, are the same as inches days ago
Pan and evicted savagely beaten and put prisoners
60 workers in Campo de Mayo (first since 1983),
commemorating the day when the Disappeared, in order of
carapintada a former second minister of the more "progressive" "government
of human rights ", the same as in 2005 and 2006 militarized
and tortured in Las Heras and repressed fishworkers
in Mar del Plata, the same as in 2007, suppressed the
Casino workers, which we will infiltrate and spy
workers with "Project X", in short, the same as in 1999,
Mauro killed Escobar Francisco Ojeda and Bridge
Corrientes, when Minister most "progressive" of "government
human rights ", was the Deputy Minister of the Interior of the Government of the
Alliance.

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