Published in Democracia Obrera 81. November 2015
ARGENTINA - November 5th, 2015
With the last chapter of the electoral trap of this infamous regime they want to force workers to choose between two executioners
Down with the fraud of balloting of Scioli and Macri,
Obama’s and Wall Street’s candidates!
The exploited masses have our own alternative to stop the retrenchment, stop capitalists’ and corrupted politicians’ attack, and to end with union bureaucracy
For the return of revolution of 2001!
Argentina will be socialist or it will be a colony of Wall Street!
CGTs and CTAs sold out 3 general strikes and guaranteed Cristina’s and TNCs’ retrenchment…
FIT refused to coordinate the militant layers to organize a big fight and submitted the vanguard to its “parliamentary work” joining the electoral trap…
On November 22nd we cannot vote exploiters, let’s put a blank vote, annul it or do not vote at all…
The working class must vote in self defence!
We have to fight as the oil workers and not acknowledge the fake collective bargains. Let’s vote from the rank and file assemblies, factories and workplaces to coordinate those who fight! |
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NATIONAL STRUGGLE MEETING!
of delegates with mandate from the rank and files to organize a struggle plan and prepare the General Strike
General elections are over. It is a huge super-structural victory of the entire regime that will have to be taken to the class struggle.
Bosses politicians like Scioli, Macri, Massa, Stolbizer and Saa got 95% of the votes; this means millions of votes that re-legitimize them to strengthen the state’s institutions and double the attack against workers and exploited masses on behalf of imperialism and TNCs, who are the plunders of the nation.
Now bourgeoisie marches towards balloting where they force workers to vote for the executioners. Democracy my ass! There are no big differences between Scioli and Macri, they are Obama’s, Pope’s and Wall Street’s candidates to double the attack against exploited.
The electoral trap started with the anti-democratic scam of PASO; it continued with Cristina launching the biggest retrenchment against workers and ends with the balloting, which is a bonapartist institution against workers. It is a true anti-democratic fraud, which it does not even have a feature of forma democracy, to be used in favour of workers. They can do it because union bureaucracy of Calo and Yasky supported the government directly, while Moyano and Michelli sold out to the bourgeois “opposition” 3 general strikes. They all imposed 27% wage increase in the collective bargains, while tens of thousands workers were dismissed and suspended. Before this the working class gave an alternative: vegetable oil workers showed us the way with their strikes, pickets and coordination and fighting for $15,000 of basic wages for all. But Left Front entered the electoral trap completely and prevented the effective coordination of all struggling sectors so the vegetable oil workers lead the movement to defeat the collective bargains and re-opening the road to the general strike. Left Front dissolved militant union meetings and that allowed union bureaucracy to keep living. Workers leaders were put as individuals in the electoral lists of Left Front and it called workers to solve their problems by “flooding Parliaments and legislatures with members of the left”.
Unfortunately Left Front keeps in the dance of the infamous regime. In the last couple of weeks a new wave of retrenchment was launched against workers: dismissals in Metalsa, threaten of close the factory Cresta Roja, repression in Cordoba and San Juan, Angel Veron’s murder in Chaco (by police, RN), dismissals in the oil workers of Las Heras, dismissals in Hutchinson, attack against public servants in Santa Cruz, against teachers and truck drivers in Tierra del Fuego, in Rio Turbio miners went on strike… they are all resisting isolated. Left is calling for a “blank vote” in the balloting, but they keep not to calling workers to fight. The blank vote is symbolic; it only shows repudiation of bosses’ politician. This is not enough. It does not stop dismissals, suspensions, it does not guarantee decent wages, it does not stop the plunder of our nation by imperialism, and it does not stop the bullets of the police and gendarmerie. To the fraud of bonapartist balloting of the infamous Constitution of 1853-1994 we must oppose an alternative of the working class: re-take the revolutionary fight of 2001 of “Everybody out, nobody left”. Let’s coordinate those who struggle, fight as the vegetable oil workers and re-take the road to the General Strike! This is why from the ongoing struggles and from militant workers organizations must call urgently to a National Struggle Meeting! with delegates with mandates from the rank and files.
Cristina leaves office splashing worker blood and Scioli or Macri are coming to continue the plans of Wall Street in the sweat shop (maquila) Argentina
The candidate for president Del Cano said before the election result "The Kirchnerism, with a right-wing candidate, opened the way to Macri" ... as if there are any Kirchneare politician who is nor tight wing and different to Macri. Left Front collaborationist policy has shown its bankruptcy.
The "Bolivarian" leaves the government splashing blood of the exploited, killing fighters like Angel Veron in Chaco and repressing and imprisoning the exploited of San Juan that stand up against mining companies. The left currents talk about the "end of the nationalists bourgeois variants" when in Argentina during the so called "winning decade" of Kirchneris, far from any kind of "nationalism", imperialism only served to increase their plunder and super-profits.
The political process taking place in Latin America is that the farce of the "Bolivarian revolution" expropriating the worker-peasant revolution throughout the continent, was a rodeo to finish imposing "America for the (North) American" under the heel of Obama, with the American flag flapping in a capitalist Cuba due to Castro, 7 imperialist military bases in Colombia, Maduro applying IMF plans in Venezuela and shooting young people who were demanding rice or Evo Morales giving away the hydrocarbons to Wall Street, repressing the miners and poor peasants. Obama squeezes all the juice possible to their agents, the Bolivarian government, to apply plansas in Brazil and Argentina is not the exception.
It is already clear, though Left Front has silenced in its campaign, the allies of Argentine workers are not the "Bolivarian" that have become agents of Wall Street, but the allies are the Brazilian workers with whom we must coordinate a unified struggle across borders; Peruvian exploited facing transnational looting; students and Chilean miners face the "socialists" of the FTA and ultimately the American working class and its vanguard black workers and immigrant workers, who have stood up to fight for $ 15 an hour, a demand for the entire labor movement across the continent. Those are the forces to fight against Obama, the multinationals, the capitalist restoration in Cuba, military bases scattered across the continent and to face the attack that has been intensified in Argentina.
The "Bolivarian" Cristina K has transformed the nation into a colont of imperialism, a real sweat shop and burden the attack to the working class. This "serial paying" gave to the IMF, World Bank, Paris Club more than 145 billion dollars for the fraudulent foreign debt, and the pseudo "re-negotiation" to the imperialist banks continues bleeding the nation. This Argentina maquila is delivered all the wealth to the transnational as Vaca Muerta or cereal companies such as Cargill, workers cannot even drink water as in San Juan, where the exploited are brutally repressed and imprisoned for facing Barrick. This Argentina maquila, the absolute majority of the labor movement is precarious, hired with poor contracts, with starving wages of 6000 pesos, and earning a little robbed the payroll tax. Argentina is the maquila where immigrant workers and their children die burnt in the textile workshops where workers die like dogs in factories where production rates murder workers every day. It is the maquila of Argentina with inflation, misery and looting. And when we go out to fight, we get repressed, murdered, with charges or imprisoned, condemned to life sentence as the workers of Las Heras to fight against the tax wage and job insecurity.
Cristina has burden a brutal attack and with the electoral trap place out of street the workers. The government could do it by the treacherous union bureaucracy in all its forms, but also because Left Front was complicit in the electoral farce dividing the fights, not calling to defeat Cristina or reject the collective bargain of Caló / Moyano and telling workers that their demands could be conquered voting in the framework of this infamous regime.
Then they were fighting alone and isolated in the city of Santa Cruz, workers of Bus line 60, the unemployed workers of Mosconi, the people of Jachal and Iglesias against Barrick, the oil workers of Las Heras, the miners of Rio Turbio, the workers of Cresta Roja (meat sector). Left Front did not put the electoral platform and their forces for a front of the workers to coordinate the resistance, to prepare a great struggle of the working class, and it ended up being functional to the electoral farce giving it a real truce to the government K, they did not call to combat it in the streets. A great opportunity to coordinate and to create the conditions to fight for a general strike was missed.
Now, all the ones that we expelled in 2001 with the revolution of “Everyone out, nobody left” are strengthened ", the infamous regime of the exploiters is strengthened by the PASO, a proscriptive trap (where the employer politicians PJ (Peronist party T N) or UCR (radical bougoisie party T N) are all back in the different political fronts) and with the farce of the ballot is ensuring an orderly transition in the government to manage a maquila Argentina a colony of Wall Street and deepen the attack against the exploited, this is what comes with Scioli or Macri indifferently. |
Down with the constitution of 1853-1994 and its infamous regime!
Enough with democracy for rich people!
Unfortunately FIT, from its TV ads, never denounced this regime of the constitution of ´53-´94 which is highly anti-democratic and authoritarian; for example it allows the Executive Power to rule with bonapartist mechanisms as presidential decrees apart from their laws. And all that apart from the fact that the cave of bandits called Parliament and the Videlist-Peronist-Radical judges’ caste -whose positions are for life- are ruled directly by a bunch of imperialist cliques.
FIT did not use the electoral tribune to call to dissolve the repressive apparatus of the murderous bourgeois state. It did not defend the sacred right of exploited people to rebel against exploiters. It did not pose either the right to self-defense against masses’ repression by slavers and union bureaucracy.
FIT refused to tell the working class to fight to overthrow the judges’ caste who prosecutes popular and worker fighters, who imprisons those who confront torments and sufferings, while it sets free the killers of hundreds of workers’ martyrs killed in this democracy for rich people and also sets free the army who carried out a genocide against the working class and exploited youth who disappeared 30,000 comrades during the Videlist dictatorship. They refused to pose the fight for setting up worker and popular courts to judge and punish the bosses and their political parties that kill workers.
Now that balloting is coming –other bonapartist institution of this infamous regime- that forces workers and exploited masses to choose between two different executioners, FIT not only it does not denounce the anti-democratic and dictatorial character of the measure, but also make it softer with they call to blank vote, as if with that call they could defeat the representatives of the bourgeoisie.
It is evident that in “superior democracy” proposed by Del Caño in his electoral campaign, he did not even mention the call to a Constituent Assembly truly free and sovereign as the most extreme institution of bourgeois democracy, which must be really representative by choosing a deputy every 10,000 inhabitants considering the entire country as a single constituency, that must dissolve the presidential institution, the parliament and bourgeois justice; and it must replace those powers by a single chamber, with revocable members at any moment and who earn the same wage than an average worker, to legislate, execute and impose justice by punishing the murderous politicians with worker and popular courts.
However, this National Assembly would not have real power unless it disarms the bourgeoisie and arm the people, because the first measure that may risk imperialism’s and bourgeoisie’s properties and interests –as the only way for exploited people to conquer their demands- the armed forces would dissolve it with their weapons. This is also why only a worker popular government, based on the organisms of self-determination, arming and direct democracy, will be the only that will be able to guarantee a fully democratic National Assembly.
That is why we, revolutionary Marxists, state that a worker republic is a million times more democratic than the most democratic of the bourgeois republics. Because only the proletariat, which is the only truly national class, which does not have any interests that ties it to imperialism, by posing as leader of the oppressed nation can conquer the rupture with imperialism and expropriation of the banks, factories, lands and all TNCs’ properties as well as a native and imperialist bourgeoisies’. It is also the only class that can guarantee bread, houses, health, education and decent lives for the exploited people.
It is obvious that for FIT and Del Caño their “superior democracy” is by “putting left members in the parliament” and presenting laws and trying to reform the Argentinean democracy, which as we proved it is not democratic at all. Once again reformism exposes itself as the “democratizing” left of the arch-reactionary constitution of 1953-1994 and this democracy for rich people which is nothing but a sweet cover of the bloodiest dictatorship of capital against the working class.
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Left Front (FIT) rejected any extra parliamentary fight of the masses
Now it calls to vote in blank vote before the ballot but it continues not calling to coordinate the ones fighting
Left Front expected an election of "historic character for the left". It remained similar to PASO election and could win one deputy for the province of Buenos Aires. But this is a great choice for the Left Front, not by the number of voters, but by the quality of them. The Left Front made a great election in the industrial centers of the major provinces. The tragedy is that those votes that reflect at least 20% of the forces of the proletariat in the major factories and establishments are subject to political pressure on the infamous regime and do not serve to organize a great fight.
In its first electoral balance of 26/10, the PO (Worker’s Party) says that the election result is given in "the midst of a political background crisis". Far from being a supposed political crisis, the truth is that the regime had set a reactionary triumph receiving millions of votes for itshis politicians and it will try now, in better conditions, take this result to the class struggle. There are no substantial differences between Macri and Scioli, the difference is only details of the rhythms and times of how the global crisis hit Argentina and they will make the workers pay for it. Those who speak against the income tax, they will steal the salary workers via the salary earning top by decree, inflation and devaluation. The only truth is that before any workers' response to the attack of the capitalists, Scioli, Macri and all political bosses unifies to place forces against the working class
The only "deep political crisis" is the one of the labor movement which did not have a coordination and control body that llow them to place the working class into the national political life on the streets, in the fight and with its program. On the contrary, the militant sectors of the labor movement made the workers suffered defeats like in Lear, graphic sector, Paty ... is that the Left Front submitted to fighting vanguard to their "parliamentary work", dissolved the leaders of the internal commissions as individuals in their lists and thus isolated the militant factories and prevented any coordination of struggle. The tragic result was losing one of the bastions of the fighting vanguard as was the internal commission of Kraft.
The Left Front did not win the votes nor the parliamentary it expected, but even if it had taken twice as many votes and half a dozen MPs, even if it had the dream of a "historic vote", none of the demands of the workers was going to be resolved in the cave of Bandits parliament of capitalists, that from which Cristina -accompanied by the genocidal Milani- called to make effective the sentence to Las Heras workers and all the "opposition" applauded. This is shown by the experience of Syriza in Greece, a "left" until the government won and the next day it was implementing Merkel and IMF plans.
The working class must weight in the political national life and fight against the trap.
From the sectors fighting, let’s call a National Struggling Meeting to fight as the oil workers! Down with the union bureaucracy! Fighting Plan and General Strike!
No time to waste, Scioli and Macri are the same, enemies of the working class and servants of imperialism.
The ones rulling are celebrating, they declare a superior war to the working class, the union bureaucracy is preparing its unification to support the new government which it comes with more attacks to the workers.
We have 400,000 layoffs between 2014 and 2015, repression gets deepens, the war against the exploited will multiply the heat of the blows of the world crisis and the Brazilian crack. Santillan and Sobrero are calling for a meeting of Combative Union Meeting for the November 27 after elections ... then will PTS and PO call for one? Enough! We are late, you must call to coordinate and fight now. We must call right now to a National Struggle Meeting! You have to fight as oil workers; with its methods of struggle are those who demonstrated how the salary cap is broken!
The forces of the working class are neither at the polls nor in the Parliament, are on the streets, in the struggle, pickets, strikes, factory occupations and strikes. The rulling class will have their "ballot", we must organize a struggle to impose our demands! We must defeat the union bureaucracy and prepare and organize the General Strike! That's what candidates Obama and Pope deserve.
While Caló (UOM-CGT) meets with Scioli and Moyano negotiated with the candidate FPV and with Macri, showing that the union bureaucracy is preparing a new Social Pact to kneel workers; Left Front celebrates to be the "fourth force" and only called to vote blank in the ballot, while claiming to be the parliamentary strength to "face the crisis that comes", what do candidates Obama holding rotten union bureaucracy it faces under the infamous regime? This left Syriza type and has no limits in its policy of subjecting workers to the regime. Enough! Left Front conquered tens of thousands of votes and have four MPs! Now break their submission to the infamous regime and let’s vote to fight!
We have to do what it was not done ... Unify the ranks of the workers in struggle! We must recover the internal committees and the bodies of delegates against the union bureaucracy!
From all sectors of workers' resistance, facing the vicious attack of the government and who will be its followers, we must call to set up right now, without losing a single minute, A NATIONAL STRUGGLEING MEETING.
Down with the union bureaucracy that always puts us on our knees before our executioners! Down with the hunger collective bargain of Caló-Cristina-Kicillof-Moyano! For $ 15,000 minimum living wage for everyone! Re-hired all the dismissed workers and suspended! For work and decent housing for all! For the nationalization without compensation and under workers' control of Paty, Brukman, Donnelley, Wordcolor, Zanon and every factory that closes, suspend or fire! Acquittal to the convicted workers of Las Heras, the release of political prisoners and the dropping the charges to the 7,500 workers and popular fighters!
Dissolution of all the repressive forces and caste judges of murderer! Workers and popular surveillance Committees to defend our physical integrity to the attacks of the bourgeoisie and its government!
We must organize the struggle to expropriate the multinational Chevron and break with imperialism and that will not pay a single penny from the IMF and other international financial capital parasite! Out British and NATO military base of Malvinas Is, placed there to bathe in blood in the exploited who dare to rebel against many years of martyrdom, super exploitation and imperialist plunder!
Neither Scioli, or Macri nor the treacherous bureaucrats! Everyone out, nobody left! Let the revolution of 2001 come back again! Argentina will be socialist or colony of Wall Street!
"Our dreams do not fit in your ballot box" Certainly not in the laws voted by parliament. The working class has its own alternative. It is fighting to put up their own power on the basis of ruin and destruction of state power and the bourgeoisie. The reformist left from their parliamentary seats or newspapers would make us believe that this is a "uthopia" a "leap" or "perspective" hypothetical, and it is possible to win lawsuits under the capitalist system; when the very existence of the exploited masses of Argentina and the world shows that there is no place to live a decent life, only hunger, misery, repression, massacres and barbarism. Enough of verse and deception! The way to conquer all our demands is taking again the path of the revolutionary struggle of 2001, to make it win. There is no other possible solution. Neither Scioli, or Macri nor the treacherous bureaucrats! "Everyone out, nobody left!” Let the revolution of 2001 come back again! For a workers' and popular government based on self-determination bodies of the mass struggling! Argentina will be socialist or colony of Wall Street!
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