Deputy Germán Martínez made the intervention of the Unión por la Patria bloc to close the debate on the labor reform. There he made a fiery speech against the law that was about to be approved. The most curious thing, however, came at the end of his speech: “There was a lot of talk about betrayals. I want to say something. We are going to represent the Argentinians of each of the provinces, whether they voted for us or not, and I assure you one thing, that when we assume the government of the nation again, this law will be repealed immediately.”
We say curious if not cynical, because at the precise moment in which one of the most regressive laws in recent decades against the working class in Argentina was being voted on, the deputy was already launching the electoral campaign for a very distant 2027. A repeated formula. Even more striking is that, despite having promised to say something about the betrayals, he could not say a single word about it. It’s not surprising. Once again, Peronism contributed to the quorum and the general vote so that the government finally managed to approve this true counter-reform against the vast majority of the population that lives off its workforce. They were deputies from Tucumán, Catamarca, Salta and Misiones, many of them elected just 4 months ago, who made this key contribution to the libertarian plans against the working class. As deputy Myriam Bregman said, it is not appropriate to talk about betrayal: when political behavior is repeated, it is not appropriate to talk about betrayal but about recidivism. “They were already voting with Milei, it seems that we blessed them for the elections, they become good again and then they betray us. Be careful with the word traitors.”
However, the actions of the deputies were not the only “recurrence” of the Peronist leadership. The leadership of that “famous” CGT, increasingly hated by millions of workers, was once again at the center of the scene. Although elementary workers’ rights are attacked, including the right to union organization and the right to strike, the leadership of the country’s main union center is far from calling for any serious plan of struggle to confront the government. The massiveness of the general strike this Thursday showed that the anger and the desire to fight it are part of the feelings of a large majority of the workers. However, they barely bothered to call a Sunday strike, without mobilization, without pickets, seeking to prevent all that anger and that strategic force of the working class from coming into play and overturning this reform.
These recurring traitors of the Cegestista triumvirate are already talking about judicializing the reform when it is approved, considering the battle lost and placing trust in a judicial power always aligned with the dominant classes.
Returning to Martínez’s words, we said that he was already in the middle of the electoral campaign: “when we become a government again we are going to repeal it.” It would be appropriate to ask the deputy what happened then with the disastrous retirement reform approved during the government of Mauricio Macri, also including a remembered repression in the street in that December 2017, which the government of Alberto Fernández did not think of repealing in long four years of management. Not only that, but the adjustment to retirees was then deepened. Germán Martínez, Axel Kicillof, Cristina Kirchner, all of them were part of that management. Nor was the odious external debt contracted by that government unknown then. Many promises of repeal and ignorance, but what is lost now has been shown to be much more complex to recover later.
At another point in his speech, Martínez exclaimed against the deputies of La Libertad Avanza that “it is going to be difficult for them to look journalists in the eyes when they meet them, to look travelers in the eyes when they meet them, to the workers who use the teleworking law, to the laid-off, to the retirees, to the monotributistas, to the workers in private homes, to the rural workers, to the workers whose overtime is taken away and who are going to split their vacations.” We have no doubt that this is so. But we believe that those same words correspond to those leaders who do not bet today on developing every fight to bring down the entire plan against the working class and grant key collaboration.
The dispute in the Senate will be a new opportunity to fight for a true active strike. To fight now and not consider the working class defeated before its time as these deputies do, talking about improbable futures. The Fate fight, the Lustramax fight, Georgalos, the thousands of layoffs in different companies are the first fights in this sense. Fights that need to be coordinated starting today to carry out this resistance throughout the country and put this enormous social force in motion to overthrow the entire Milei plan.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
