In this last month we witnessed the apathy of Javier Milei’s government in doing anything except sending resources to areas where native forests are burning. Not only does he deny climate change but, as he already revealed according to his ideology, he has no problems letting rivers and territories be contaminated to generate business profits. But Milei is not the only one, others have already demonstrated it in reality, the regime shares the extractivist consensus. Let us remember that the first glacier law was vetoed by Cristina Kirchner in 2008, and now the governors of the mining provinces such as San Juan, Salta, Catamarca and Jujuy have agreed to modify the Glacier law to allow exploitation of areas that were prohibited by the current law.
The labor reform synergizes with the reform of the glacier law and the looting of natural common goods: it is an attack on the rights that workers won with years of struggle. Job stability is attacked by increasing the trial period and lowering the cost of layoffs. The working day is changed, creating the bank of hours, disorganizing working families. The workers’ struggle is attacked by declaring essentiality and making it difficult to organize by workplace. How are we going to defend our working conditions, how are we going to defend our natural common goods if to go on strike we have to guarantee 75% personnel?
But who is pushing to change the glacier law (besides extractive companies)? On the one hand we have governors of the extinct Together for Change as Cornejo of Mendoza, Orrego of San Juan and Sadir of Jujuy to which the Peronists join, such as Jalil of Catamarca and Sáenz of Salta. It is not surprising that provinces governed by former JxC give votes to a Milei law, but: what are the Peronist senators and deputies going to do with the reform of the Glaciares law or the labor reform? What will Juan Manzur, for example, from Tucumán, former chief of staff of the Alberto Fernandez government, do? Her vote is not yet defined, the same as Sandra Mendoza who is also from PJ Tucumano.
This is not the first nor the last time that governments of different political colors, hand in hand with mega-mining companies, try to attack our natural commons. They did it in Chubut with the mega-mining attempt on the plateau, in Jujuy with the reform of Morales’ provincial constitution, in [Buenos Aires con las exploraciones por petroleo off-shore, y lo hacen en estos días en hacen Mendoza donde reprimen las manifestaciones en defensa de los glaciares y contra el proyecto San Jorge). En todos los casos, independientemente de si se ganó, se perdió o se sigue luchando, al extractivismo se lo enfrenta con organización y lucha. Asimismo, para enfrentar la reforma laboral, la reforma a la ley de glaciares y la baja de la edad de imputabilidad tenemos que organizarnos por lugares de trabajo y estar en las calles los día que se voten tanto la reforma a la Ley de Glaciares o la Reforma Laboral.
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Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
