The national leader of the PTS-Frente de Izquierda was at the mobilization on Wednesday and also suffered repression. She called for the mobilization next Thursday and suggested that it should be massive.

Myriam Bregman, national leader of the PTS-Frente de Izquierda Unidad and former national deputy, stopped by C5N this Wednesday, following the mobilization of retirees who suffered harassment and repression from the forces commanded by Patricia Bullrich.

There, among others, he left the following definitions.

  • “We were at the march with my colleagues from the Left Front because we believe that we have to be there in these difficult times. Retirees are going through a very complex situation. Not only retirees, but also the children of our country. I think that the most complicated moment is at those two extremes today. That is why we always try to be there to the best of our ability. We were there last Wednesday, we went to Plaza de Mayo.
  • “While there are so many traditional leaders, so many union leaders, so many social movement leaders saying ‘be careful, we must be afraid’, what I saw from the retirees moved me. Because they said: ‘We have the right to demonstrate, we came to defend our rights, we have the right to surround Congress with a mobilization’, which was what they wanted to do, and they did it. So, I think that is what everyone has to look at. They have to look at the fact that, when there is a decision, when they stand up to the streets, Patricia Bullrich is not invincible.”
  • “It was shown that retirees continue to set an example, an example of courage in how to confront this government. And on the 12th, thousands of us have to be in the streets. Enough of hiding. Enough of calling on Twitter and then not going. That is something that happens a lot. I think it is over. That on Thursday the 12th, thousands of us have to be there. We are going to be there with an independent column, as we always do on these occasions.”
  • “I think that this day has to be clearly demonstrated and that there has to be a strike. How can people go at 3 in the afternoon if they are working? They can’t. Enough, enough of playing cat and mouse. The veto cannot be passed.”
  • “There is also the International Monetary Fund. If you forget about the International Monetary Fund, you don’t understand anything about what is happening in Argentina. And many people work to make us forget that the International Monetary Fund is there. The International Monetary Fund was in the government of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner, it set their economic policy. It was there during the pandemic, setting what could be spent and what could not be spent. Today it is setting out that health and education are not priorities.”
  • “That is why we had a strike at the Garrahan today. Of course, what is a hospital that concentrates everything, health and care for the children of our country? Everything is concentrated in that wonderful hospital, with incredible professionals, like the Garrahan has, with nurses that I know because I have been there many times, nurses who give everything. You cannot believe that, with what they earn, with what they travel to get to the hospital every day, they make the effort they make to care for the children who come from all over the country.”
  • “We are discussing whether they can veto a law in favour of retirees and we still don’t have the CGT and all the trade unions saying that we all have to be there on the 12th. Between now and that day there will be a very important debate, which we have to have in every workplace, in every place of study. Because universities are also being attacked. When the university called for support, they were supported. Well, today we need to come out for the retirees.”
  • “The ruling classes are looking for their alternatives, or at least, they always have a clear idea of ​​where they should go. I believe, and I say this sincerely, that we must build an alternative from below, from the working class, that truly fights so that the needs of those who get up every day to work, of the retired men and women, are at the centre, and that this fraudulent debt is put to an end. From my point of view, it has to be a socialist project to think of another society, where making ends meet is not an odyssey every time. I believe that this is the way out.”
  • “What is my fear? Political debate is developing in a circular way? We do this to confront the other, it fails, and then the other comes back recharged, which is what happened with Macri. There is a debate about what needs to be built and we want to give it. But that debate begins now and it begins in the street.”

    • Politics / CGT / Myriam Bregman / Retirees

    Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com



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