President Javier Milei offered on Wednesday a speech of almost two hours at the EFI Expo, where he delineated the foundations of his economic and political plan. The event, which brought together businessmen and referents of the financial sector, served as a platform to announce measures that, according to the president, seek to “structurally transform” the Argentine economy. However, these proposals do nothing more than deepen the adjustment and reinforce the dependency towards the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Milei held the recent agreement reached with the IMF, which includes a loan of 20,000 million dollars, as an “achievement” to stabilize the economy. However, behind this triumphant speech a forceful reality is hidden: the agreement is nothing more than a link in the indebted chain that has perpetuated Argentina’s submission to the interests of international financial capital. These types of policies are not new; They are a continuation of decades of subordination to the IMF that have resulted in brutal adjustments about the working class and the popular sectors.
The president did not avoid his usual insults: “They have inside the enemies of the Argentines who profited for a hundred years with this impoverishing model. The Econochantas, the corrupt politicians, the journalists made, the trustees, and all the functional ones to the children of whore who shitted the country,” he launched. But its verbal violence cannot deny that the financial sector is multiplying its profits lowered its management, while the consumption of the great majorities does not recover from the devaluation blow made by the government barely assumed.
In his speech, Milei also addressed the labor, pension and tax reforms that his government plans to implement. These measures, presented as “necessary modernizations,” actually represent a direct attack against the rights conquered by the working class throughout decades of struggle. Labor reform, for example, seeks to make working conditions more flexible, reducing rights and facilitating layoffs. On the other hand, the pension reform aims to increase retirement age and reduce the benefits, while the tax reform promises to relieve charges over large entrepreneurs, transferring the cost of fiscal collection to the popular sectors.
Having sunk the minimum retirement, Milei said they will have to wait for a solution, saying that: “We continue to advance to make more reforms at work to achieve more flexibility. When there are more people in the blank market, just there you can think about the solution to the pension theme.” It is also impossible for labor flexibility to increase the collection of ANSES, on the contrary its plan would only deepen the loss of registered jobs, worsening the situation for workers and retirees.
In his speech, within the Hilton Hotel, Milei was accompanied by Manuel Adorni, presidential spokesman and current candidate for the elections to legislator of the city of Buenos Aires. The president took the opportunity to congratulate him for his participation in the debate; The same where Luca Bonfante, a candidate for the Left Front, stood out for having marked that it was the day of adorni, for being 29, the day of the ñoquis.
It is essential to articulate a resistance from the working class and the popular sectors to stop the Milei and IMF setting plan. The PTS on the Left Front summons this May 1 to workers, students, retirees and all sectors in struggle to a great meeting to strengthen the independent organization of the national government and its accomplices, especially the trade union bureaucracy that after the last unemployment returned to passivity. The organization from below is key to fighting for a program that prioritizes the needs of large majorities above the interests of large capital.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
