The electoral farce concludes of the 2021 PASO (Mandatory Open and Simultaneous Primaries)

Either Peronism or PRO win or lose…
Those that always win are the IMF,
the big bosses and the oligarchy

The FIT-U celebrates being "third force"…

What must be conquered is a FIRST FORCE in the working class
to sweep away the union bureaucracy and end this anti-worker government
of the UIA, the bosses and Wall Street

The PASO electoral trap is over. Now the truth must be told. It’s necessary to conquer a first force in the labor movement to defeat the corrupt traitors of the Peronist union bureaucracy of the unions and the "piquetera" (unemployed organizations) bureaucracy that distributes alms to millions of unemployed workers and that long ago stopped fighting for decent work and much less in actively participating in the struggles of the employed workers as in 2001.

We must throw away those ministers-without-a-portfolio that  the traitors of the CGT and the CTA are, who have placed the workers' organizations as an appendix to the Peronist government, the slaver bosses, the bankers and the IMF. This must be conquered and will be conquered through the struggles and from the bases of the labor movement. The workers and specially their most exploited layers can no longer bear to live as they have done up to now. Inflation corrodes workers' wages. There are millions of workers unregistered, outsourced, unemployed, in the informal economy. From the bowels of the anti worker government of the PRO yesterday and today of anti-worker Peronism, a new working class is being born more flexibilized in a new maquiladora called Argentina.

Defeating the union bureaucracy is the way to untie the hands of the working class to put a foot on the capitalists' chest and reopen the way for the general strike and the Argentinazo.
That is the way out to unite the very hard and scattered struggles, which end, some of them, without victories and defeated. That is the way to reopen the collective bargaining to win the salary and to put on its feet the unemployed movement that rose up on the roads fighting for work and not for handouts.

That is the FIRST FORCE that must be conquered so that the working class weighs in national political life where the bourgeoisie and its parties only organize attacks against the people.
Seeing the FIT-U celebrate the possibility of placing 1 more deputy and being a "third force" in the midst of the suffering and misery of millions, is pathetic. Unfortunately, the vote to the left in the 4 key provinces where 80% of the labor movement is (Buenos Aires, CABA, Cordoba and Santa Fe) was not more than 4.2% on average, and didn’t reach 5.3 % at the national level.

There is nothing to celebrate here. The Peronist government collapsed electorally and the workers didn’t kick them out to flee in helicopter, as the anti-worker government of Macri also deserved, so much servant and agent of the IMF as that of the Fernandezes'. The regime‘s mechanisms have fully functioned and the PRO maintains its votes by resurrecting the anti worker bunch of the UCR.
Millions didn’t vote,  making the most important abstention since 2003. This means that, despite hating the regime and its parties, they don’t see a revolutionary alternative in the parliamentary left. An alternative that was seen by the desperate middle classes, and even a strip of workers, in the PRO that won them over in the streets, with pickets of oligarchs and anti worker elements, surrounding the presidential residence, while the parliamentary left treated the Fernandezes' arch-reactionary government as "progressive ".

What changes 1 more point of votes to the FIT-U if it isn’t at the service of convening right now to coordinate all the struggles, the self-organized, the combative unions and the piquetero movement that fights for genuine work?
The groceries and supermarket shelves are inaccessible right now. The task of the moment is to reopen the collective bargaining and put the workers' movement as a whole on a war footing to wipe out the union bureaucracy and fight for decent work for all and for a minimum wage according to the family basket. This desperate situation of the working class cannot wait for November. This is a matter of life and death for the workers. These minimal and immediate demands, this battle against the union bureaucracy, which is an internal police of the labor movement, will not be resolved with 1 or 4 or even more than 100 left-wing deputies. Moreover, even if they have their own quorum, they will not be able to conquer the demands, because for this they have to attack the property of the capitalists, their banks, expropriate their lands, put to produce the machines paralyzed by the parasitism of the bosses, etc. This can only be achieved by a provisional revolutionary government of workers and impoverished popular sectors. And this must be said clearly, otherwise it amounts to o deceiving and lying to the working class.

They say that in Jujuy "the wall of the bosses' parties was broken"? Well then, let it be a revolutionary bastion to give this national combat. If not, it will go down in history as the 14% votes for Del Caño in Mendoza in 2015, or the "Trotskyist Salta" of 2013, when the FIT exceeded 20% of the votes.

The battle is for being the FIRST FORCE. In Jujuy, if they got 24%, the FIT-U is already the first force in the labor movement where it is, in the companies, in the sugar mills, in the public employees and in the unemployed movement. The FIT-U has the opportunity in that province to summon the labor movement to put itself in a state of permanent assembly to expel the union bureaucrats, raise a single set of demands voted by the workers' bases of the entire province and call from there and from all the ongoing fighting, to a great National Workers Congress of employed and unemployed workers. This is the force that the working class needs.
It‘s still in the memory of a generation of the labor movement the fight at the end of the 1990s of thousands of workers from Jujuy, one of the most advanced vanguard sectors in the fight against the "Menemato" (the perfidious anti-worker administration of president Menem, NT)  that went in their thousands to the Federal Capital to make their claims.

Conferring the vote the strength it doesn’t have -as the FIT-U does- is a typical fetishism of social democrats. Parties of this type even won national elections in some countries, where they announced the "peaceful way to socialism", but they always refused to defeat the states of the capitalists, who were the ones who ended up chastising the masses.

The electoral "ammeter" of the FIT-U in these PASO 2021 moved to the level of 5.30% throughout the country, similar to what happened in 2013, when the MST was not in its ranks. No one can celebrate this. But no serious revolutionary Marxist can celebrate either that, due to its parliamentary cretinism, the FIT-U has not been able to conquer a portion of millions of workers who abstained or voted null, who used this means to repudiate the government. The FIT-U wasn’t an alternative of class independence to channel this enormous process of a fringe of the mass movement.
The FIT-U is devoted to attacking the right wing and sweetens the Fernández government with a “progressive” halo, criticizing it for “not going all the way” or being “inconsistent” in the fight against the agrarian oligarchy… But in the heart of this government is the union bureaucracy, hated by the workers, because for 2 years it has not lifted a finger for wages, against unemployment and dismissals, while it came to support the Macri government until the end so that it wasn't overthrown by the workers' uprising that in 2017 threatened to do so. The present is a government commanded by a political operating board of the upper bourgeoisie, the bankers, the IMF ... and the same anti worker bunch of the Rural Society, of which they are partners in multiple businesses.
The same FIT-U, with its policy of pressure on the Peronist government, ended up closing the way for itself to be the “third force”. More and more the union bureaucracies subjected the labor movement to the Fernandezes' government, more and more the left painted it as "progressive" before desperate masses of hungry people who only ended up hating it, and more and more the PRO and the infamous bourgeois regime of the capitalists, the oligarchy and imperialism became stronger.

Under these conditions, the labor movement was brought by its leaderships to a very dangerous paralysis, under this infamous regime of the Social Pact. That allowed the ruling classes to throw the entire crisis at the masses and even prepare Milei's fascist test balloon to organize desperate sectors of the ruined middle classes and even impoverished layers of the exploited, to attack the labor movement in the future...

The "right-wing bourgeois opposition" and imperialism will take good care of protecting Fernndezes' anti-worker government, both in the Parliament and the streets. They will seek not to weaken it to extreme degrees since it guarantees them, with the bludgeon of the union bureaucracy and the police, the control of the labor movement and the advance towards the maquila Argentina.
It’s enough to see the first measure that Peronism resorts to get out of this crisis: it is already preparing to hand over millions of free slave workers to the capitalists of the countryside and the city, with the state paying them AR pesos 13,000 from the social plans and subsidizing the bosses 50% of a minimum wage of AR pesos 25,000 with the ATP (Emergency Assistance to Work and Production).(A living wage would amount today AR pesos 90,000. NT). This is how Peronism seeks to “give work”: workers without rights, with a salary that is enough to live 4 days a month or visit the supermarket 3 times...

While some celebrate their "victories", what is important for the labor movement is that from the bases of the Acindar steel factory in Villa Constitución, assemblies have begun to be promoted by the base to demand the reopening of the collective bargaining. Activism is regrouping at the Río Santiago State Shipyard to prevent the way to privatization with the change to State Society.
This should be the electoral campaign in the labor movement until November: from the grassroots, with the method of workers' democracy, the union bureaucracy must be cornered and the path to the General Strike must be reopened. Sectors of the traitors of the CGT and CTA bureaucrats and of the "popular economy" call for a march in support of the Fernandezes. How far they are from fighting for the interests of workers and how close they are to the interests and businesses of the bosses and their government!

We must break the straitjacket put around us by the PJ leaders and the "red picketers", who lead the unemployed to work out for misery, as third or tenth grade workers, painting schools or in city halls, totally out of any collective agreement and with many of them taking a "tithe" from them to support that bureaucracy in exchange for hunger and misery. It’s time for the true unemployed movement to return: that of Teresa Rodríguez, of Aníbal Verón, of Kosteki and Santillán ... the one that fought for decent work and didn’t visit the offices of the Ministry of Social Development of the bosses' politicians. In the unemployed movement of CultralCó and Mosconi, the Menemist ministers had to go to the pickets and make public negotiations Infront of the rebel bases!

We must reopen the road of 2001. They all have to go and not one should remain.
In that battle, the left and socialist currents will have the best conditions to win an "excellent election", beyond the votes they get, because they will have prepared the proletariat for the present and future combat that must be waged, which is no other than the one who prepares the victory of the socialist revolution. Because either Argentina will be socialist or a Wall Street colony.

Editorial Board of the newspaper Democracia Obrera