The adjustment explodes in the heart of repression
As he points out in his X account Octavio Crivaro, leader of the Socialist Workers Party (PTS) in the Left Front: “The police crisis in Rosario is a labyrinthine expression of the failure of Pullaro’s mileist adjustment. The line of starvation salaries against teachers, nurses and doctors, today explodes in the heart of the governor’s heavy hand, the repressive and corrupt police.”
The police crisis in Rosario is a labyrinthine expression of the failure of Pullaro’s mileist adjustment. The line of starvation wages against teachers, nurses and doctors, today explodes in the heart of the governor’s heavy hand, the repressive and corrupt police (1).
— Octavio Crivaro (@OctavioCrivaro) February 10, 2026
This police protest is, in its own way, an expression of the crisis of the brutal adjustment agenda implemented by Pullaro, which now generates a crisis in its own waterline. The same governor who empowered these repressive forces – the same ones that have repressed teachers and port workers when they demanded their rights – is now confronted with them, although he will surely be more tolerant of these repressors than of state workers who earn salaries below the basic basket.
A serious crisis
The adjustment policy had generated a significant crisis since the beginning of his mandate, which Pullaro seemed to have momentarily overcome with the landing of federal troops and complex negotiations with the police themselves. However, this new conflict opens a gap in one of the central axes of his government.
Faced with this situation, confusing positions arise, such as that of Ciudad Futura, that tries to present police officers as “workers.” This view is deeply erroneous. These repressive forces, beyond the very poor salaries they perceive, have nothing to do with the working class. On the contrary, they are the armed arm of the State, national or provincial.
The repressive nature of the police
The evidence is overwhelming: every Wednesday we see federal or city forces brutally repressing retirees who receive salaries well below the basic basket. Attacks that no worker would carry out against older adults.
Although this crisis is an expression of the governor’s economic adjustment policyit is a mistake to consider it a struggle comparable to that of nurses, state workers or doctors in public hospitals. This is a force that has had no problems repressing teachers, dockworkers, homeless families, attendees at stadiums every weekend, and even the relatives of police officers themselves, as happened days ago. It is not only the repressive role of the Police that is contestable, but the daily stigmatization of youth in popular neighborhoods and public involvement in drug trafficking in Santa Fe.
A call for intervention from the working class
This crisis that is opening up for the Pullaro government and its adjustment policy, simultaneous with an important workers’ march in Rosario, should be read by the workers as a signal to intervene with their own demands. It is crucial not to give in to the confusing view that presents police officers as “uniformed workers.” The true solution to the crisis lies through the independent organization of the working class, facing both the economic adjustment and the repressive apparatus that tries to discipline it.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
