"We do not believe that the essential issue is ultimately to vote or not to
vote. What matters is what is done and not what is voted for. What defines it isnot the attitude on an isolated Sunday at the end of November, each one puttingpieces of paper in a hole inside a secret room... What defines is what is done,and how it is done and why it is done , all the days that precede and all thosethat follow that folkloric Sunday... Only through direct action can a strongpeople be forged. ---- Like the social conquests, the individual, trade union andpolitical liberties that exist in our country must be defended inch by inch. Howthey were conquered Through the direct action of the workers and the advancedsectors... This has nothing to do with "defending democracy", with defending theregime. It is necessary to defend the freedoms and conquests of the people,deepen them, broaden them, give them full social meaning. If the people backdown, they will be undermined and violated, no matter how much of a "progressive"and "enlightened" Parliament there is....Resisting reaction in all fields: this is how a strong people is forged...Organizing their power, exercising it from the urban and rural unions, from theneighborhood leagues, from the popular nuclei, from the forces of the left.Exerting direct action, the people, the people, stars in the political life ofthe country. And joins....This is how the class struggle acquires shape and dimension. This is how theconditions are created for radical change for the essential revolutionarytransformation."Gerardo GattiWe come from a stage of brutal deepening of the post-COVID19 social and economiccrisis. Already at the end of the government of Alberto and Cristina Fernández wefind as a general framework the agreement with the IMF that keeps the governmentunder the command of the international organization, and along with this theacceleration of the inflationary process in the country, which has been going onfor at least ten years, although never on scales similar to the current level.Meanwhile, the government is going through an institutional and political crisisthat keeps the Frente de Todos fragmented and without the capacity to establishstrong public policies regarding the economic direction. This is a very hostilesituation and serious attacks on the living conditions of those below, where ourincome is strongly affected to cover basic needs such as food, health, housing, etc.- The economic crisis is deepening, year-on-year inflation of over 100%, fallingwages, an increase in basic basket products and services. Loss of purchasingpower for the salaried sectors and even worse for the most precarious. Thisexponentially increases the cost of living in poor neighborhoods across the country.- The government is absolutely subordinated to the IMF for the external debtcontracted. The entire ruling class agrees to follow that program, what fallsoutside of those guidelines are mere nuances of style. Being a clearmanifestation of the presence of Yankee imperialism in our country.- The extractivist model is also advancing as a farce of a solution, withcontinental projects such as the IIRSA plan (Integration of the South AmericanRegional Infrastructure) that accentuates and enlarges the sacrifice zones,clearing, monocultures, mining exploitation, lithium extraction, fracking,overcrowded farms, pesticides, manipulation of river beds, expansion of citieseliminating wetlands, among many other destructive atrocities of nature andecosystems. All this even without generating significant jobs or much lessreactivating the industry.- It was also possible to observe the increase in foreign exchange benefits forfinancial sectors and agro-exporters, all currency flighters and large speculators.- In this scenario, the large supermarket chains, price remarkers, hold thefamilies of our country hostage.- We were also able to see a brutal adjustment in the public areas and socialsupport policies. Proof of this is the cut in health, the attacks on publiceducation or the drop in social plans for the sectors hardest hit by the crisis.- The political persecution of social fighters persists and deepens, especiallyevidenced in the arrest of Mapuche militants in Patagonia such as Facundo JonesHuala, the repression of environmentalists in Santa Fe, or the attempts todiscipline unions, with threats of removals of legal representation, discountsfor days of unemployment or even with arrests and imprisonment as were the casesof the Rosario dock workers.This 2023 is the year of elections in Argentina and the entire political arc ofthose above tries to impose the discussion of the electoral thread on the mediaagenda. We find an open scenario, of crisis of the coalitions and electoralfronts. On the one hand, a fragmented Frente de Todos that evidences thespeculations among the most Albertist and Christian sectors, although the figureof Massa also seeks his political gain after having established himself in theMinistry of Economy. The government front has demonstrated its complete inabilityto resolve the economic issue with unstoppable inflation, in an obvious failurebefore its electorate. In this framework, the internal disputes have more to dowith getting rid of said failure and maintaining a certain quota of votes inorder to continue keeping their apparatus alive, than for reasons of ideologicalpolitical content. On the other hand, the Cambiemos coalition, which is moreconcerned with resolving its internship than with solving the social problemsthat they themselves helped to generate in their government. Until now, the onewho took the first step was the Head of Government of the capital, the politicalcenter of this front, otherwise known as a adjuster and neoliberal. On the otherhand, we view with concern the rise of reactionary and ultra-liberal sectors suchas Milei's who seek to channel popular discontent towards the traditionalpolitics that has impoverished our people in recent years. While those at the topdiscuss candidacies, the outlook seems to be getting worse every moment.The stage is open, and popular organizations are far from seeing a way out orprogress through elections, in a context where precariousness, violence from drugtrafficking in neighborhoods, hunger, without a life project for our kids.Among the hostility of the context, despite the advance of individualism andfragmentation, some processes of struggles continue and can deepen, if there is acommitment to unity in the street. This is the case of struggles for wages andworking conditions, such as the imposing tire strike, bank strikes, publichealth, among others. Or the progress in conquests of feminist struggles againstpatriarchal violence or like the great mobilizations that forced the approval ofthe Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy. For all this, we understand that inArgentina there is a need to bring to workplaces, places of study, neighborhoods,discussion about our living conditions as popular sectors, to counteract thesmokescreen that those above want to impose with the electoral circus. ,strengthen mobilization and combat the fragmentation of sectoral claims to defendthe needs of the popular sectors.There is no way out through elections or parliament to resolve the terriblesituation in which the popular sectors are sunk. Returning to those concepts ofcomrade Gatti, we reaffirm that only the organization and the struggle in thestreet, regardless of class, are the tools that we have as a people to defendwhat is ours and move towards better living conditions. We have plenty ofexperience to understand that governments pass and hunger, misery and repressionremain. We call on all the comrades who, being part of the popular and workersectors, still harbor some hope in the electoral process, not to abandon thefight in the streets. To continue deepening the organization from below in theplaces of work, study, in our neighborhoods and continue the fight from classindependence whoever governs, whoever wins at the polls wins.Anarchist Organization of Córdoba - OACRosario Anarchist Federation - FARAnarchist Organization of Santa Cruz - OASCAnarchist Organization of Tucumán - OAThttps://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0fZQkRLNRbmAECWfcgEMyJKGvBbtRiEL2NgG9ytUVkiJFgYv7ZvNzQeyv3gT6Fyyml&id=100063547308480_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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