Days before the end of the year, while several of its officials announced their vacations in Miami, the denialist government began to fulfill the promise of nNew layoffs in the Human Rights Secretariat and throughout the Ministry of Justice. Today the workers gathered at Ex Esma to carry out an open assembly, managing to enter the property where the National Memory Archive and the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center are housed that today woke up closed and with police personnel at their doors.
Accompanied by hundreds of members of neighborhood assemblies, aeronautical workers, also laid off in struggle, state workers from other organizations They are in solidarity with their fight. National deputy Nicolás del Caño and legislator Andrea D’Atri, both from PTS-FIT and Human Rights leaders such as former deputy Luis Zamora and the Center of Professionals for Human Rights (CEPRODH) are also present.
An emblematic space that has the support not only of its workers but of thousands of people who hold the flags of Memory, Truth and Justice. We have that enormous force to occupy and resist layoffs and emptying. We can make it real that #TheyWon’tPass https://t.co/S2OVK0z1Ze
— Andrea D’Atri (@andreadatri) January 2, 2025
Besides a 60% reduction in the salary of all its workers is announced, which is completely illegal Since the salary is an acquired right, the workers faced the closure of the National Memory Archive and the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center that operate on the former Esma property. In the first, nothing less than the CONADEP archives and relevant documentation on the cases against those responsible for the disappearance of 30,000 people are found. during the last civil-military dictatorship.
In addition to defending their jobs, workers are also defending democratic achievements resulting from years of fighting against impunity for genocide. of the last military dictatorship. This is an attack on workers’ rights and the human rights of our country.
Without workers there is no memory. We are at ESMA accompanying the workers of the Secretary of Human Rights who defend their jobs and confront the denialist government of Milei that attacks the historical struggle of the organizations and of all the people for… pic.twitter.com/5t7N0TEXwK
— Nicolas del Caño (@NicolasdelCano) January 2, 2025
The policies of Memory, Truth and Justice were achieved thanks to the struggle of a large part of the Argentine people. The Sites of Memory are judicial evidence in trials against Humanity and are under the protection of judges. Milei’s government intends to sweep away years of democratic struggles. Last week there was a massive hug to the former Esma in which different sectors of workers, social organizations and human rights organizations participated. At the action, the renowned Human Rights fighter Myriam Bregman gave a combative speech.
The union leaderships have to organize resistance against this attack, as the workers of the Bonaparte Hospital did.unitary assemblies and forceful actions. Without workers there is no memory.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
