Argentina - January 23, 2019

Neither with candles nor electoral trap...

We will defeat Macri and the IMF’s attack fighting like the Yellow Vests of France!

We must return to the path of December 18 and 19, 2017

The workers are paying with hunger, misery and thousands of dismissals not to have overthrown anti-worker Macri when we had him on the ropes. Since 18/12 of 2017, the union and picketer bureaucracies have saved him.
Today, while preparing the electoral trap, those at the top throw the economic crisis to the workers brutally, with layoffs, inflation that liquidates our salaries and with wild taxes to guarantee super-profits to oil companies and energy companies. The bosses closed more than 1300 factories only in 2018!
The IMF plunders the nation with foreign debt, while parasitic bankers charge usurious interest rates with Argentina's bankrupt notes and government bonds.

To cover up such embezzlement and the exploitation of the workers, Macri with the bosses' politicians and the bureaucracy want to inaugurate the electoral year. It is an infamous trap against the people so they pay the crisis created by capitalists!
CGT and the CTAs bureaucracies, who betrayed the path to the general strike to defeat Macri and the IMF, tell workers that the government is defeated by voting for the "opposition" bosses.
That "opposition" approved the budget to the IMF and which, like Alicia Kirchner and Bertone, applies in the provinces retrenchments that Macri himself would envy. They are all at war with the workers and the people!
The bureaucracy gives them time so that the attack of the government and the IMF can pass and the electoral trap be imposed. The triumvirate of CGT is openly with the IMF. Moyano, Yasky and Micheli do not want to go on a strike "because it is an election year" and so they "confront" the tax rises by marching with candles. The picketer bureaucracy of the Vatican treats the unemployed and cooperative workers, like beggars... Down with the truce!
This attack by the government and the IMF must be dealt with as the exploited people of France do. They set up barricades and clashed with the police, in an open political struggle against Macron and its rise in the price of petrol.
The Argentine working class has no other way. It is necessary to defeat Macri and the IMF in the streets, as it was since December 18, 2017. This government of the CEOs comes to impose the labour flexibility with the PJ and the K, by commands of the transnationals and the large employers.
In 2017-2018, they attacked sectors in Vaca Muerta oil tankers, in ATILRA (rural workers), SMATA and even in the Río Santiago Shipyard, all in complicity with the union bureaucracy. It is them or us!
The FIT, which leads and decisively influences the SUTNA, the UF-Haedo, militant teachers unions, etc., far from discussing how to unify the sectors in struggle against the truce of the bureaucracy, entered fully into the electoral trap with its acts in October. Now it is consumed in a shameful dispute over the electoral positions, as if Macri and the IMF could be defeated with a ballot box.
They cannot continue with that policy any more. In order to regroup the workers in struggle, divided by the union and picketer bureaucracies: Shipyard, port, Tandanor, SIAM, Canale, Interpack, teachers, Hospital Posadas, Cresta Roja, the unemployed, etc...
Down with the union and picketer bureaucracies and its truce to the government of the CEO's and the IMF!
National Picketer Assembly of Occupied and Unemployed Workers, with grassroots delegates from the entire labour movement!

√ To break with the IMF and defeat the government...
√ To end the begging welfare, imposed on workers, and fight for decent jobs, with the reduction of working hours with a salary equal to the family basket...
√ To fight for the expropriation without compensation and under workers’ control of all factories that close, suspend or dismiss and do as in Zanón
√ To face the tax rises, for the renationalization without compensation and under workers’ control of the energy companies...
√ For the freedom of Daniel Ruiz, Jones Huala and the young anarchists imprisoned, for the acquittal of the oil workers of Las Heras and the workers of Tierra del Fuego, against the anti-worker persecution of all the comrades...

It is necessary to return to the path of December 18 and 19 of 2017!
The working class needs the general strike!
Open the road to a new Argentinazo!
Out with Macri and the IMF!

JUAN GAMARRA