We express our unwavering solidarity with the Argentine working class and all sectors in struggle who are confronting in the streets the labor reform project presented by the ultraliberal government of Javier Milei, which seeks to make the working and living conditions of the Argentine people more precarious. The proposal was approved this morning by the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and will return to the Senate.
Since February 11, tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Argentina to say no to the labor reform that the Milei government is trying to impose. Yesterday, a general strike was called to try to block the proposal. The government's response was police repression, with rubber bullets, tear gas and dozens of arrests, in a way of criminalizing the social struggle.
The reform underway in Argentina severely attacks historical rights: it facilitates dismissals and reduces compensation; it institutes a time bank with shifts of up to 12 hours without overtime pay; it allows vacations to be split into only seven days; It establishes company-specific agreements with fewer rights than collective bargaining agreements; and restricts the right to strike.
Meanwhile, in Brazil, the 2017 labor reform, implemented by Temer, maintained by Bolsonaro, and preserved by Lula/Alckmin, continues to generate damaging effects. And new attacks are mounting: the opinion of the Attorney General's Office, signed by Paulo Gonet at the beginning of this month, defends the use of independent contractors (known as "pejotização" in Brazil) and removes the Labor Court's jurisdiction to recognize fraud, benefiting companies that have already transformed 4.8 million employees into independent contractors. At the same time, the proposed constitutional amendment (PEC) that aims to end the 6x1 work schedule risks being distorted in Congress by maneuvers of the Centrão (a group of center-right political parties) and Bolsonaro's parliamentarians, who want to further flexibilize the CLT (Consolidation of Labor Laws) in the name of "free enterprise," leading to more precariousness and insecurity for workers.
The offensive is the same: capital has no borders and attacks in a coordinated manner in Latin America. Therefore, the struggle of Argentine workers is also our struggle. In both Argentina and Brazil, only street pressure, mobilization, and class independence can stop the advance of neoliberalism. Therefore, it is also necessary to build bridges of unity between the struggles of Brazilian and Argentine workers against the common enemy.
The struggle in Argentina is yet another battle in a broader war against the offensive of capital against labor throughout Latin America. We stand with the Argentine workers in this trench!
Libertarian Socialist Organization
February 2026
https://socialismolibertario.net/argentina-e-brasil-unidade-da-classe-trabalhadora/
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Link: (en) Brazil, OSL: Argentina and Brazil: Unity of the working class against the offensive of capital (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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