Argentina - March 30, 2026

The PTS celebrates its congresswoman's performance in the polls…

Bregman's "positive image" as a "left wing" of the Kirchnerist bourgeoisie is rising

Over the last couple days, the PTS has been bragging about the rise in Myriam Bregman's "positive image" in various polls, with dozens of posts and articles on the topic.
It’s understandable that the PTS is celebrating the "high popularity" of its congresswoman if this reflected a revolutionary process unfolding in Argentina and Bregman were a revolutionary, socialist, and internationalist leader amidst this mass offensive, but given the current situation of the working class, why are they celebrating?
Bregman's poll numbers are rising, while wages and pensions plummet. Layoffs and factory closures take place on a daily basis. The working class is torn apart, suffering one of the worst attacks in its history, thanks to the betrayal of the union bureaucracy, which surrendered all its conquests and cut a deal on the labor reform. So, we really ask ourselves, why is the PTS celebrating?

Following Trotsky’s argument against the German CP in the 1930s “is now depicting the results of the German elections as a prodigious victory of Communism,” no result can be analyzed “in independently of the revolutionary tasks created by the situation and the obstacles it sets up” (…) “The weakness of the positions of Communism, inextricably bound up with the policy and regime of the Comintern, is revealed more clearly if we compare the present social weight of the Communist Party with those concrete and unpostponable tasks which the present historical circumstances put before it.” (“The Turn in the Communist International and the Situation in Germany,” 1930, our bold).

If today we compare Bregman’s “positive image” with the revolutionary tasks facing the working class, we would clearly conclude that there is no reason to celebrate. Because, with the approval of the labor reform, Milei's autocracy and the pro-bosses parties from the Congress declared a decisive war on all the conquests of the working class, in order to advance the US imperialist colonization plans of the nation, as part of Trump's offensive all over Latin America.
According to the PTS, how is this fierce class war to be confronted? With high poll numbers and plenty of likes on their social media?

Even if Bregman remains silent, the only way to confront this is to tell the working class the truth: that the union bureaucracy must be swept away and organize a revolutionary mass political struggle to guarantee breaking away with and expelling imperialism from Argentina and overthrowing its government. There is no other solution for the workers and the exploited, but uniting with their class siblings in the US who continue to take to the streets against the genocidal Trump to defeat the imperialist offensive, the government, and the institutions that sustain it.

But far from using their parliamentary platform to develop extra-parliamentary mass struggle, Bregman and the FIT-U are doing the exact opposite: while keeping the fight for socialist revolution under lock and key, they have dedicated themselves to leading the working class to pressure the union bureaucracy and Congress, so that the “opposition” executioners confront Milei, even though that Congress long ago “abdicated” and granted Milei monarchical powers.
Bregman is the leading figure of a mediocre parliamentary left, the “left leg” of the political front they maintain with the Kirchnerist politicians bosses in Congress, voting for 123 laws during the Fernández administration, and even forming a joint bloc with the Kirchnerist in the Chamber of Deputies under the pretext of “confronting Milei.”

Bregman dodges the million-dollar question: towards an electoral front with Peronism?

The "Russian" plays dumb every time she's asked the question. But, why doesn't she openly say that they would never form a coalition with Peronism because it is a bourgeois, slaveholder party, another agent of the IMF, JP Morgan, the US embassy, and the big business association AEA, the "serial payers" of the foreign debt, the bosses of the union bureaucracy's scabs? ... Why is Bregman silent? Would that damage her image too much?
Bregman has evaded answering it by resorting to a class collaboration alibi: she has proposed to the bosses politicians of the Peronist Party the “unity in the streets.” She has suggested that “political leaders march with pensioners on Wednesdays or go and support the Fate workers' struggle”… Who are they laughing at?
The united front tactic is aimed at workers' organizations, not to a bourgeois party like Peronism. How can they form a “front of struggle” with boss politicians? The bourgeoisie does not support struggles or fight alongside workers, but exploits, deceives, manipulates, and, when that fails, represses and crushes them.
Apparently, the PTS leadership has no limits when it comes to sugarcoating Peronism as an “ally of the workers.”

To try to make this less obvious and to disguise their politics with some semblance of class independence, Bregman have insisted in various interviews that they are about to build a "new political force", a "Workers' Party"... Are they for real? We thought it was about building a “revolutionary political force” and a revolutionary workers' partyto fight for the socialist revolution… But shus, that is not something to be talked about, because that would damage the image too much and steal votes to the “Russian”…
Clearly, the PTS's recipe is not to build a party that fights for the working class to seize power, fighting for the dual power structures of the masses, for self-defense committees and the workers' and people's militia, for expropriating the expropriators of the people, for defeating imperialism, its government and its regime with independent mass action, returning to the path of the Cordobazo and 2001, etc … Let alone an internationalist party that seeks to unite the struggle of the Argentine working class with the worker and peasant masses of the entire continent, with the workers of the USA, alongside the Palestinian masses and those of the entire Middle East…
Far from fighting for an insurrectionist, Leninist, combative party, under the banners of the Fourth International (which they have long since renounced), what the leadership of the PTS wants is to build a reformist social democratic party within the regime, like the Labour Party of England or Lula's PT, who have prepared themselves to manage the business of the bourgeoisie.

The PTS has become a "left-wing" appendage of Kirchnerism

It becomes increasingly clear that the PTS is "strengthening"... as a left-wing offshoot of Kirchnerism. But they are deepening their class collaborationist policies more and more, and sawing off the very branch they are entrenched in, even though the "Russian" enjoys excellent approval ratings among Kirchnerist middle classes.
On March 24th, the 50th anniversary of the genocidal military coup, the PTS contingent at the Buenos Aires march barely reached a block and a half, two at most... This is no cause for celebration, as it proves that the FIT-U's policy has prevailed—creating illusions among the most combative sectors of the working class that Milei can be confronted through a parliamentary front with Peronism.

But, as the PTS leadership knows, such a column was the size of just one of the MAS regional branches in the 1980s, which garnered few votes in elections but filled entire stadiums by leading more than 2,500 internal commissions. Beyond the program and strategy of the MAS in the 1980s, with which we disagree entirely, this indicated that it was a party with weight within the workers' vanguard.
The PTS of today does not even have that. Only the "Russian" selling a course on "good image"... far away from any policy of class independence, let alone a strategy for revolution.
This is something the entire bourgeoisie perceives. Grabois, the Vatican man and leader of the Kirchnerist Patria Grande movement, already said that Bregman and the FIT-U “were not fighting for revolution and to seize power; only to get more seats in Congress.”…
The “Russian” was praised by bourgeois left-wing journalists like Bercovich, who told her that “he finally understood the left” because of Bregman’s book “Zurda,” which conspicuously lacks any call to expropriate capitalists through a socialist revolution…

Now, Kirchnerist journalist Nancy Pazos joins in, “congratulating” Bregman and telling her that she represents a “more mature left that does not mean being so Trotskyist ,” and that she “engages in dialogue with other political leaders.”

The men and women of Kirchnerism paint a complete picture of the "Russian": lots of dialogue with Peronism, effectively breaking with all Trotskyist legacy and strategy.
It is worth remembering Bregman's visit to San José 1111 to see the bourgeois Cristina Kirchner… That is where the order came from to use the PTS and the FIT-U as the "left wing" of the "Peronist setup" for an "anti-Milei front" towards 2027. The only debate within the parliamentary left is whether they will be inside or outside the front. So far, Bregman and the PTS are outside… Because that way they better whitewash the "left within," which is Kirchnerism. That is the sadly infamous role the "Left" plays today, and one that the PTS leadership celebrates.

Florencia Cerillos