If you touch one, you touch them all.
The national government has decided to open multiple battle fronts and the struggles are growing. If we unite them, we can win and put a stop to the attack plans they are making together with the businessmen.
Aerospace workers are on the warpath: Milei’s government, with the support of Macri, right-wing journalists and the big employers, decided to turn the attack on Aerolíneas Argentinas into a witness conflict. This Thursday they launched a new blackmail. The unpresentable Manuel Adorni, a functionary of the caste who earns a millionaire salary, said in his role as spokesman that the government started conversations with different companies to privatize the flag carrier, due to the strikes.
It is pure blackmail: what they are seeking is to attack the right to strike, not only against aeronautical workers, but as a precedent against all workers who want to go out and fight against their hunger plans. This Thursday, the deputies of the Left Front presented a project against the decree on the essentiality of air transport, which establishes that in order to carry out a strike, workers must give “five days’ notice” and guarantee “minimum services.” It is a clear attack on the right to strike, arbitrary, illegitimate and illegal.
They also have a plan in the background to make deals and hand over Aerolíneas Argentinas’ routes to private companies. This is not surprising. Carlos Menem, the icon of neoliberalism in Argentina, is Javier Milei’s idol. But the truth is that the privatizations of the 1990s were a disaster. At that time, Aerolíneas Argentinas went from having 30 planes to one.
And they also want to iron out salaries: contrary to all the lies they tell, many aeronautical workers earn between 500,000 and 800,000 pesos. They are the same ones who guarantee connectivity and who were there during the pandemic. essential to bring in vaccines or repatriate people who had been left abroad. Now they are being attacked. We have to defend them.
However, Aeronauts are not the only ones struggling. Following the announcement of the veto of the university budget made by President Javier Milei, University teachers are calling for a national strike of the sector for Thursday 25 and Friday 26 September and a strike and National University March for October 2In April, more than a million people took to the streets to defend public universities, but the government, with the anti-democratic mechanism of the veto, continues to insist. Once again we must take to the streets to win.
Public health workers are also fighting. This Thursday, they held a strike and demonstration at the Garrahan Hospital to demand a salary increase and to defend public health.
Retirees are also still fighting despite Javier Milei’s veto of the increase, which he managed to impose with the help of the PRO and radical deputies and the Peronists close to Massa from Innovación Federal. But his veto and the barbecues in Olivos only generate more anger: retirees are still standing, marching every Wednesday, with increasing popular support and despite Patricia Bullrich’s repression and her lies, such as when she tried to lie and hide that her police fired tear gas at a ten-year-old girl.
The tire workers are also still fighting. Between 11 a.m. on Wednesday and 6 a.m. on Thursday, a strike called by SUTNA and its branches took place at the Pirelli, Bridgestone and Fate plants. The striking workers also held a “symbolic assembly” in Plaza Congreso with the support of other sectors. They are in the middle of collective bargaining and reject the dismissals.
And so we could go on, naming the Arsat workers who have just gone on strike and mobilized, the teachers from different provinces (with cases of major struggles in recent times, such as the one in Neuquén), the UOCRA workers repressed in Jujuy and many others in different parts of the country.
The government and the employers are attacking. But the struggles are growing and we have the strength to win. Now the transport unions have united and are talking about possible measures of force. We must demand that they move from words to actions, and also demand that the CGT breaks its eternal truce.
But we must not wait for those CGT bureaucrats: we must carry out a huge campaign in all workplaces, schools and in every neighbourhood to support the struggles of Aerolíneas, of the retired, of the university and of all the sectors in struggle. Let no one fight separately: if they touch one, they touch all. Let all the sectors unite in every measure, crossing mutual support, and converge in a great national protest of all the sectors, which can be an overwhelming force for victory. We must impose this unity on all the bureaucrats from below, on the path of imposing an active national strike and a plan of struggle.
If the aeronautics win, we all win.
If retirees win, we all win.
If the university and public health win, we all win.
Airlines are not for sale
Long live the strike of the Aerolíneas Argentinas workers
Let’s stop the attacks of Milei and the bosses
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
