This Tuesday afternoon the meeting was held between the representatives of the national Ministry of Health and the leaders of the unions of the Laura Bonaparte mental health hospital. This meeting resulted in a minute, where the government backed away from the closure of the hospital, while the workers remained vigil in the hospital. “It is worth fighting from the grassroots” says Javier Gabino, activist and representative of the hospital’s base assembly on his social networks.
It’s worth fighting from the grassroots! The Milei government has to go back on the closure of the Bonaparte where I worked for 10 years. Occupy, resist and advance. What was needed. We achieved it with a grassroots assembly and fighting commissions. Pride to be part. We remain on alert. pic.twitter.com/TUGWTObFsA
— Javier Gabino (@JavierGabino) October 8, 2024
Since the news became known this past Friday of the closure of the guards and the hospitalization and the threat of definitive closure, the workers organized massively in a base assembly uniting affiliated workers, non-affiliated workers, adding the patients, where they resolved the peaceful occupation of the hospital. Throughout the weekend there were thousands of adhesions and support from different union organizations – especially health workers, mental health organizations, social organizations, students, cultural personalities, journalists and political leaders.
More than 200 Bonaparte workers were part of the fighting commissions where they distributed tasks, from commissions of culture, solidarity, communication and everything that was needed to sustain the permanence in defense of the hospital. The bases were organized and managed to unite what the union leaders divided, UPCN and ATE.
While the workers evaluate the details of the agreement, while they remain in a state of alert due to distrust of a government that hates public health and while they prepare to be part of the mobilization in defense of mental health that will take place this coming Thursday, they begin Congratulations are coming from all the sectors that supported this fight.
Myriam Bregman warns a great lesson from this fight “The struggle at the Bonaparte Hospital stopped the government’s hand and leaves a great lesson for continuing the fight against Milei’s plan: it was achieved through grassroots assemblies, jointly held by all the unions, opening the fight to the community and leaving to the street”. All this done by its own workers, a great example of how to stop this government’s hand. Tomorrow the fight will be against the veto on university financing and the students are already carrying out their first conclusion, taking over the country’s faculties and taking to the streets.
The Bonaparte Hospital fight stopped the government’s hand and leaves a great lesson for continuing the fight against Milei’s plan: it was achieved through grassroots assemblies, jointly of all the unions, opening the fight to the community and going out to the street
— Myriam Bregman (@myriambregman) October 8, 2024
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Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
