Argentina - March 17, 2025

March 12: A mass action in defense of retirees, against the government and its police regime, which responded with savage repression…

Next March 19 let's take to the streets again
NATIONAL ACTIVE STRIKE NOW!

OUT WITH MILEI AND THE IMF!

Open the road to self-organization… For a National Committee of those who fight!

We must expel the union bureaucracy of the CGT and CTA!

LET THEM ALL GO AND NOT A SINGLE ONE REMAIN!

On March 12, thousands of workers and working-class youth—outsourced, laid-off and unemployed workers, together with students— mobilized in defense of retirees fighting for 82% mobile pension, medicines, and other demands, and who had been enduring crack down every Wednesday.
These exploited sectors of the masses and the poor people, after the self-convened mass assembly in Parque Lezama and the enormous mobilization on February 1st, once again took to the streets shouting, "Where is that famous CGT, that it's nowhere to be seen?" and " Everyone of them must go away, not even one of them should remain!”
Spontaneously, and wearing their football-soccer jerseys, workers staged an independent mass action to strike at the government, breaking control from the PJ (Justicialist Party) and the union bureaucracy, which had delivered thousands of layoffs and collective bargaining agreements, leaving retirees fighting alone.

This action would have been multiplied a thousandfold if the metalworkers, automakers, food workers, etc., had mobilized. This is the great betrayal of the CGT and CTA bureaucracy, which, with an iron fist prevented the general strike against Milei and the emergence of the most concentrated battalions of the proletariat.
On March 12, the battle opened a path of struggle for the ruined middle classes and for public servants and industrial workers terrorized by layoffs and crack down.
We have begun to retake, in embryonic form, the path of 2001: it is now understood that not even the smallest demand can be conquered, unless we oust the Milei government, as we did with De La Rúa.
The government took note of this and savagely cracked down the protest with the police, the prefecture, and the gendarmerie. These cowards attacked an 81-year-old woman pensioner, they shot with intention to kill with a gas cartridge to the photographer Pablo Grillo, who is still fighting for his life and they even arrested more than 100 workers.
That same Wednesday night, Explora oil workers in Gral. San Martín Port were cracked down by the prefecture for protesting for their layoffs and a national union strike was declared against such an outrage. The following day, the self-organized oil workers of Vicentín blockade the highway demanding better wages.
Milei has taken a blow, but he won't back down and will attack workers with even greater ferocity to push through the plan of worker slavery and colonialization of the nation. That's why it's time to keep hitting him.
TO DEEPEN THE FIGHT: WE MUST BREAK AWAY WITH THE PJ AND OTHER BOSSES PARTIES... EVERYONE OF THEM MUST GO AWAY, NOT EVEN ONE OF THEM SHOULD REMAIN!
The bosses' politicians of the PJ, the UCR and the PRO passed a bill giving Milei superpowers and the laws of worker slavery and surrender of the nation to his government, at the service of the big bosses and USA.
Cristina Kirchner, Kicillof, and the PJ want to pose as "opponents" when they are the bosses of the scab bureaucracy of the CGT and CTA that handed over the working class tied hand and foot to Milei's attack, while together they support and provide governability to this repressive government and its infamous police regime. Meanwhile, in the provinces they govern, first of all Kicillof, they implement the same plan of the IMF and imperialism.
These are the same people who governed the province of Buenos Aires for decades, guaranteeing the plundering of its resources. They didn't invest a single peso in infrastructure, and together with Milei, who liquidated public works, they led Bahía Blanca to disaster, leaving 15 dead and the city under water.

All bosses' politicians have the same master: the US embassy.

Out with the parasitic capitalists, their politicians, judges and all the repressors of the people!
THE FIT-U HIDES THE REVOLUTIONARY CRY OF 2001 THAT THE MASSES SHOUTED ON MARCH 12.

Life has rendered a verdict. Milei cannot be defeated by calling for pressure on parliament to force the anti workers of the PRO, the UCR, and the PJ to vote in favor of the people. Nor with an "anti-Milei" front with Kirchnerism, let alone demanding a strike to the scabs of the CGT and the CTA. This policy is leading us to the cliff.
The path to defeating Milei is the one paved by the battles of March 12 with the war cry of 2001. But while we confronted the government chanting " Everyone of them must go away, not even one of them should remain...", the FIT-U limited its demand to "Out with Bullrich" without proposing the dissolution of the repressive forces, which is key at this moment. Its policy does not aim to strike a decisive blow to the entire government and the puppet parliament with a mass revolutionary offensive. Its policy is "let them all stay" to bring more left-wing MPs into Congress.

In the unions, they are subordinate to the union bureaucracy. In the tire industry, Crespo (leader of the Partido Obrero and general secretary of SUTNA) remains subordinate to Pablo Moyano, even though the employers have laid off more than 1,200 workers and are still attacking. In the metalworkers' union, Miguez (leader of Politica Obrera and of the internal committee of Acindar) accepts hundreds of layoffs and furloughs. He follows like a shadow to the body to Furlán's Kirchnerist bureaucracy in the UOM.
Enough! We must break away with all policies of class collaboration and subordination to the union bureaucracy, which are an obstacle to deepening the ongoing struggle.
WE MUST KICK OUT THE UNION BUREAUCRACY… ON MARCH 19: NATIONAL ACTIVE STRIKE!
OPEN THE ROAD TO SELF-ORGANIZATION… FOR A NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THOSE WHO FIGHT!
The scoundrels of the CGT are only calling for a strike on April 8. The CTA is only calling for a mobilization for retirees this Wednesday, after allowing tens of thousands of layoffs in the state. They are preventing an active strike so that the struggle of March 12 doesn't develop or spread. They are seeking to disperse our forces by calling for a mobilization on March 24 alongside the Kirchnerist bosses. This is how they want to remove the struggle of the masses from the scene so that the government can continue its attacks.

OUT WITH UNION BUREAUCRACY! THE FIGHT IS NOW! NATIONAL ACTIVE STRIKE NOW!

The strike and struggle of the Santa Fe and Vicentín oil workers mark the way...
We must disobey the union bureaucracy. What we need is to strike with one united fist.
We metalworkers, autoworkers, tire workers, public servants, students, and university professors who are going on strike must all mobilize and strike against the government on March 19.
Open the road to self-organization… Open the road to grassroots assemblies, factories, companies, schools, universities, etc., to centralize and coordinate demands and struggles at the regional and provincial levels… For a National Committee of all those who struggle!
We must strike at the profits of the capitalists! Shut down the ports, the trucks, the factories, the state-owned establishments, the railways, the construction industry, the universities and schools...  EVERYTHING MUST BE STOPPED!

This is the way to impose: Out with Milei and the IMF!

No payment of the foreign debt! We must expropriate the parasites that plunder the nation and starve the people! Expropriation without compensation and under workers' control of the banks and transnational corporations that plunder lithium, gas, and oil, the parasites of the AEA, and the lands of the oligarchy!
The resources are there to conquest a living, mobile minimum monthly wage of $1,800,000 pesos and 82% of the mobile monthly wage for retirees. Everyone should be permanent and under collective bargaining agreement! Not one more layoff... No more flexibilization! Reduce the workday without pay cuts and one more shift in all companies! For decent health and education for the people!

Stop repressing retirees and workers! Drop all the charges against the fighters! Workers' and popular tribunals to try and punish yesterday's genocidaires and today's repressors!
Out with murderous Bullrich! Down with the police regime!
Dissolution of the police, the Videlist officer caste, and all repressive forces! These armed gangs only defend the business of capitalists and imperialism.
Today more than ever, we must establish united self-defense committees of workers' organizations against the repressors of the people!
We must march to the CGT to impose a general strike until Milei is overthrown and we finish what was left unfinished in 2001.
Let the workers govern over the destruction of this infamous regime, its corrupt judges and politicians, its police and genocidal army who are under the orders of the capitalists and the US embassy.

For a workers' and popular government based on the self-determination bodies of the masses!
Gringos go home! Out with Milei, Trump's lackey and partner of the genocidal Netanyahu!
USA hands off Panama! British out of Malvinas! Out the imperialist bases from all Latin America!

If USA are kicking migrant workers out of the US like dogs, their bankers and transnational corporations must be expelled and expropriated from Argentina and the entire continent.
The place of the Argentine working class is alongside the Palestinian resistance and migrant workers. We face the same enemy: US imperialism, which commands the plundering of oppressed nations with gunfire and repression in the Middle East and Latin America.

Open the road to the Argentinazo, this time victorious!