Today, your workday begins to be decided in an area well protected from the noise and murmurs from outside. 72 senators, recently arrived from their paradisiacal vacations, will continue the thread they started in December. The last week of the year they obtained the commission’s opinion, but the votes are still not guaranteed. At least in its original version.
But the thread continues in different scenarios: the offices of the Minister of the Interior Santilli who meets with Peronist and radical governors; Minister Caputo’s office, which has the final say in key chapters such as Profits and the Labor Termination Fund; those of the governors who speculate alongside “their” senators and deputies; those of the CGT in Azopardo where they send messages and make reels but don’t even talk about fighting.
We are facing one of the scams of the century. A caste of parliamentarians, ministers, governors and bureaucrats are defining the destiny of millions. Millions who get up every day to run the country and the majority do not make ends meet.
This confirms that we are in a democracy of the rich and for the rich. The Senate is the biggest den but in Deputies similar principles will continue to prevail.
According to La Nación, “the accounts show 26 votes in favor, 25 against and 21 legislators who have not resolved their vote and who, for the most part, respond to the provincial leaders.”
Then the thread speeds up. Day by day. There is talk of 3 billion pesos at stake. Of 2.65.
But the CGT has a “plan b” if the thread fails in the distance: “Peronism and the CGT do not add new votes and are already thinking about judicializing the law if it is approved” (Clarín). From the Huerta Grande program to the Lorenzetti theorem.
Does anyone count the hours, the money, the rights that they want to steal from the working class?
In addition to the funds from the Nation and Province, “there are other items that are under discussion and that Bullrich and his team have been, with oriental patience, receiving and working to obtain a wording that agrees with everyone” (La Nación). Leave me the Labor Assistance Fund and I’ll leave you the branch agreements, don’t touch me on the “essentiality” of the strike and I won’t touch you on the “solidarity fee.” And so on.
Against the undemocratic regime and reform, coordination and class struggle
We entered February, the extraordinary ones began, and the CGT triumvirate continues repeating: “if there is no negotiation there could be measures.” The same thing he said on December 18. 45 days. At that time there were no negotiations or measures. The CGT went to fly the train stations, as a local political or union group. But it runs 230 unions. At this point the ambition of the Cegetist triumvirate is inversely proportional to that of the Mileist: Bullrich-Caputo-Santilli.
A sector of unions, headed by Abel Furlán (not even the entire UOM), as well as port, aeronautical, state and oil unions, released a statement criticizing the reform and calling for a “fight plan” but which for now is limited to marches without assemblies or strikes. If that front called them together in their unions, many of them important, they could help the fight for a massive mobilization and a national strike.
From the classist, combative and leftist sectors we believe that in the face of such theft, in the face of such an anti-democratic act that wants to sweep away 100 years of workers’ conquests in a caste thread, massive and combative actions must be organized. From now until the law is defeated in the Senate or Deputies. Or, actually, on the streets.
This weekend from the PTS in the Left Front, together with colleagues from other political organizations but above all from sectors in struggle and combative unionism, we promoted open meetings in the North Zone (in front of the emblematic Lustramax), the South Zone (in the opposition ATE), in La Plata and Jujuy (in the Cedems teaching union). Hundreds of activists, groups and combative leaders of the working class participated.
Everywhere they voted to accelerate the resistance against the reform, to mobilize when necessary, to continue coordinating, to demand from the CGT, the CTA and the unions a general strike and a plan of struggle, in addition to supporting the ongoing conflicts.
This week there will be other activities, such as a call in Parque Lezama and an Open Town Hall in Garrahan. In each of these spaces we must propose the broadest and most combative unity possible, with a clear proposal of rejection of the entire slave reform and plan of struggle until it is defeated.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
