Argentina - June 2018

In regard to FIT's parliamentary cretinism

The left wing of the regime of the reactionary Constitution of 1853-1994

About the press conference against Macri's announcements to use the Armed Forces in the internal repression of the country ...

FIT Parliamentarians "defend" democratic liberties together with people's murderers

The policy of class collaboration carried out by the leadership of the FIT has entered vertiginously into a precipice without end. Before the attempts of Macri's Government to use the Armed Forces in "logistics" as  security forces ; that is, to re-use the genocidal "milicos" in internal repression. On Monday at the National Congress halls a press conference was held. There together with human rights organizations and and leaders and parliamentarians of Kirchenerism, the PJ, and even the FIT and the left.
It is clear that in the face of the attack on the living conditions of the people that the government is carrying out with the labor flexibilization and the colony agreement with the IMF, Macri and the regime of the patronal parties leans on the most Bonapartist institutions of the reactionary Constitution of 1852-1994, like Justice and, as it tries to do now, on the officer caste of the Armed Forces. In a continental plan of Yankee imperialism that seeks to impose in its backyard, the most reactionary and Bonapartist regimes it can to guarantee its recolonizing offensive in Latin America. Today we see how the regime of the 9 military bases strengthen with the entry of Colombia into NATO, the Brazilian armed forces occupying Rio de Janeiro, and the Bolivarian governments withdrawing from the historic arena massacring the people.
Macri's Government and the Argentine bourgeoisie know that the clash with the working class is inevitable and they need the Army with its free hands to repress and crush the people if they need it to safeguard their profits and their property. The entire bourgeoisie and its constitutional regime of 1853-1994, are aware that what happened in December 2001 where they could not use the murderous generals cannot happen again. That is why they need to take the Armed Forces out to the streets using any kind of justification.
Faced with this leap in the armoring of the regime against workers and exploited, we revolutionaries are not neutral or abstaining. We promote all kinds of unity of action with all those sectors that want to face this policy consistently, fighting to dissolve the murderous officers of the Armed Forces, to imprison all genocidal, so that no soldier leaves the barracks surrounding them at the first attempt of moving  troops with the objective of using them to repress the people, calling to set up the common Committees of soldiers and workers' organizations. We would push this fight together with the "devil" without asking him to stop being him. But the conference in which there were parliamentarians of the FIT and leaders of the left had nothing to do with this.
In it were Bregman (PTS), Maria del Carmen Verdú (CORREPI), Vilma Ripoll and Bodart (MST), along with Felipe Solá, the murderer of Santillán and Kostequi, and the former Kirchnerist Security Minister Nilda Garré. But it was not at all a policy of action unity. That conference did not define anything. In that press conference the left did not defend any class position or denounced as accomplices of Macri the parties and bourgeois leaders who were there. Moreover, each of the outrages committed against the workers was silenced. Under the justification of a supposed unity of action, they conceal, in fact, a policy of class collaboration, which prevents the working class from defeating the Government and the capitalists’ reactionary offensive.
What does it mean? First Bregman, Verdú, Ripoll y Bodart washed the dirty clothes of bosses’ Parties like the PJ who were not only part of those who called the officer caste of the genocidal Army to crash the workers in 1976 but who guaranteed impunity voting the laws of Due Obedience and Clean State Acts, the fake Judgments to send to jail a couple of gerontes milicos and save the high level functionaries in activity who formed the Task Groups In the ’70 and they are Generals now like Milani. These same bosses’ Parties led the repression through the State Institutions of this democracy for the rich.
Secondly, the FIT and the MST propose the workers that democratic liberties can be defended together with the bourgeoisie and the "democratic" bosses. A shame! The PJ and Kirchnerism, who were sitting with Bregman, etc. are against to dissolve the caste of genocidal officers of the Armed Forces, nor any force of repression against the workers. They did not hesitate a second to use the forces of repression to repress, persecute, imprison and massacre the people. And they will not hesitate to do so if they were Government again, to guarantee not only the property of the imperialist transnationals but their own.
So arguing that democratic liberties can be defended with the Kirchnerists and the PJ is a scam.
In the "democracy" of the slavers, the liberties for the people exist not by the exploiters ‘concern, but by the revolutionary struggle of the exploited.
We insist in revolutionary socialist are not neutral in this fight. Democratic liberties can only be defended in the streets, with the methods of struggle of the working class; the general strike, the piquets and self – defense Committees against the armed gangs of the bosses’ “democracy”. It is necessary to explain the working class that all gain will be lost without socialist revolution’s triumph.
El FIT, el MST, el MAS, se niegan a plantear esto y renuncian de antemano a la lucha en defensa de las libertades democráticas. Con sus métodos parlamentarios y su política de colaboración de clases y su sometimiento, el FIT impide que la vanguardia obrera dirija al proletariado a romper con la burguesía. Su política es criminal a la hora de defender las libertades democráticas frente a los golpes del Estado. Los obreros de vanguardia deben combatir todo veneno de conciliación y sometimiento a las instituciones de la “democracia” patronal. De eso dependerá en gran medida el futuro de las libertades democráticas.
The FIT, the MST, the MAS, refuse to raise this and renounce in advance the struggle in defense of democratic liberties. With its parliamentary methods and its policy of class collaboration and its submission, the FIT prevents the workers' vanguard from leading the proletariat to break with the bourgeoisie. Its policy is criminal when only it is posible  to defend democratic liberties, fighting against all poison of conciliation and submission to the institutions of employer "democracy". The future of democratic freedoms will depend on that to a large extent.