ARGENTINA

In a bankrupt country strangled by the IMF, full of misery and hunger for the workers…

The FIT-U May Day:
just a rally for an electoral campaign

Neither internationalist nor one fighting for the socialist revolution.
Very far from uniting and coordinating the workers' resistance.

The tsunami of the world crash and the strangulation of dozens of countries indebted by the IMF is hitting Argentina, a bankrupt country whipped by inflation and the misery of workers. The working class has not been able to respond to this catastrophe due to the betrayal of the scabs of the union bureaucracy, despite having fought hard against the government in recent years.

Today, when the economic and social catastrophe is already here, the FIT-U has launched itself into a wild race for the votes. Their rally on May 1st, far from showing a path of effective struggle by proposing the coordination of those who fight, was limited to calling to vote for their candidates, amid cross accusations between the PO and the PTS about who is more servile to kirchnerism .
If the FIT-U had wanted to, it could have called the SUTNA workers, the bus drivers, the Terminal 5 port workers, the Unidad Piquetera, the self-convened teachers, the Coca-Cola workers from Salta, etc., to get together and set up a national struggle committee on May 1st, an organization to unify all demands and coordinate resistance struggles.

At the event there were Crespo (SUTNA, tire Workers Union), Belliboni (Polo Obrero unemployed union), Sobrero (railworkers of the combative UF Local Haedo), Dellacarbonara (Subway Union), Del Plá (SUTEBA, Buenos Aires province teachers), Adaro (Ademys, prívate school teachers), etc., all of them FIT-U union leaders. But the FIT-U did not want to take advantage of the day to make such a call. The only call yo action at the event was to…vote and strengthen the FIT-U.

I'm a moment Argentina is sinking like the Titanic, the FIT-U tells the workers that they can only vote and fight to improve our living conditions little by little, achieving small gains within the framework of this bankrupt system.
It is a utopia. Those from above are not only bent to give us nothing, but they are coming to take from us even the last of our conquests. To defend our rights and wrest from the capitalists even the smallest of our demands, we must fight for everything. France demonstrates that in order to defend the right to a dignified retirement, the government must be thrown out.

The FIT-U does not call to prepare a victorious Argentinazo. For them, the break with imperialism and the expropriation of the capitalists are a thing of the future and not an urgent need to get out of the current hell.
The revolution? In the future, Bregman said, not today. Speaking of France and Peru, she stated that “those mobilizations that travel the world, these rebellions will become social revolutions (…) the future will be socialist or it will not be! " What is to be done today? "Wage a battle in the national elections ."

The example of France is categorical. There the masses do not leave the streets because they know that they will achieve nothing as long as Macron remains in power, but the PTS says that there are no conditions to fight to overthrow the government with the method of revolution!

It doesn't surprise anyone. The FIT-U parties come from supporting Petro, Castillo, Lula, Boric, and all the bourgeois who have postulated to divert the revolutionary combats in Latin America in recent years, either openly or “from the outside”. In Brazil, the MST and IS are inside the PSOL, which is part of the Lula government.

They have embraced the Stalinist policy of supporting the “lesser evil”, the “progressive” bourgeois. That is why they have earned the greeting and support of the Castroite Frank García Hernández and the "Communists of Cuba" group!

The tragedy is that while the Peronist government, together with the IMF and the six big employers' chambers that already speak openly of war to the people, are plunging millions into misery and despair, the FIT-U calls to face the capitalist catastrophe with a paper ballot.

Bregman regrets that the desperate middle classes and even the most impoverished sectors of the working class are going behind the fascist Milei, who speaks the language of the crisis and calls for the burning of the Central Bank.
What Bregman does not say is that those thousands who end up looking for a radical way out of their ruin on the right do so because the FIT-U itself, with its reformist program, has tied the hands of the workers' vanguard, preventing it from regrouping their forces against the union bureaucracy and the bosses' parties, and showing an alternative in the streets with strikes and pickets, fighting for a program to get out of the crisis for those thousands without hope who are today going behind Milei!

For a congress of employed and unemployed workers to unite ranks against the attack from those above

 Today the working class is torn apart, under the boot of a scab union bureaucracy, servant of the IMF and the US imperialists embassy, and a movement of the unemployed that leads the unemployed to beg for "social plans".
It is a question of life and death to unite again the employed and the unemployed as in 2001 to face the catastrophe to which our leaderships have led us.
The Congress or Meeting that the PTS and the PO are talking about is not to make the working class stand up. In 2020-2022 these two had the opportunity to promote the coordination of the thousands of workers that summoned themselves against the union bureaucracy and broke with the Peronist government, but they did not do it.
What we need is a Congress of Employed and Unemployed Workers, that calls to defeat the union bureaucracy in the streets and liberates the hands of the working class so it can fight.

We must resume the path of the assemblies, the pickets and the general strike, as we did in 2017, when we took the lectern from the CGT, shouting “Set the date to the strike!”. Open the road to the self-organization of the workers! Out with the union bureaucracy!

The first step is to unite and coordinate the molecular, isolated struggles, such as that of the bus drivers, the teachers, SUTNA, Terminal 5 port workers, the unemployed from the Unidad Piquetera, under a program that raises the demands of the most exploited of our class, the unemployed, the precarious, the unregistered workers:
Minimum monthly salary of $400,000 and a reduction in the working day so that everyone can start working under a collective agreement.
Out with the IMF and all the looters and parasites that oppress the nation! We want the lands of the landed oligarchy so that the people can eat!
Self-defense committees of the workers' organizations against the repression of the police and gendarmerie!

Acquittal of Arakaki, Ruiz, Estela Juárez and the Las Heras oil workers!
That congress would even be able to elect, by show of hands, the candidates of the militant workers for these elections. A SUTNA's Crespo candidacy with Daniel Ruiz (convicted former oil workers delegate, a PSTU leader) Angélica Lagunas (ATEN, Neuquen province state worker) or "Pollo" Sobrero (UF-Haedo railworkers), or convicted companions such as Arakaki, the Las Heras oil workers or the comrade condemned teacher  Estela Juárez. Workers vote workers! An electoral campaign agitating this program to put the working class on its feet would thus show a class alternative to millions of workers who today find no way out of their sufferings.
It is urgent that the FIT-U puts an end to its  policy of self-proclamation and places its representation at the service of the workers to elect their candidates.
But the elections will not bring either best wages or work. This ongoing electoral trap, made to the measure of the IMF and big capital, is to define who will be the next marshal of the exploiters, if the PJ or the PRO-UCR, in the war that they have declared against us.

Only a triumphant Argentinazo will make way for the demands of the working class. In 2001 we kicked out De la Rúa. We have to finish kicking them all out. The working class must weigh in the national political life, beginning by breaking with all the political parties of the bourgeoisie, with this democracy for the rich and with the anti-worker peronist government, a lackey of imperialism.

We must end this ferocious dictatorship of capital supervised by a handful of imperialist companies, the IMF, the oligarchy and the big bosses from the LlaoLlao Hotel and the US embassy.

Only a workers' and popular government supported by the self-organized mobilization of the masses will be able to win bread, decent work and housing for the vast majority of workers and poor people. Everyone of them must go out, no one must remain!

The FIT-U cannot lead this combat. Years ago they broke with all the legacy of the Fourth International. The working class needs a fighting Leninist party, the party of Mateo Fossa and Leon Trotsky, that knows how to fight in resistance, one that battles to put on its feet an internationalist fraction of the working class under the program and strategy of the Fourth International of 1938. That is why we call on you to organize with the Trotskyists of the LOI-CI/Democracia Obrera to give this fight together.

Either Argentina will be socialist or it will remain a Wall Street colony!