Del Caño's words in the Parliament regarding December 20, 2001
A submissive tribute in front of the bosses' politicians, executioners of the people
How to pay tribute to the martyrs of December 2001 in front of their murderers without holding the latter accountable? How to remember the revolutionary days of December 19 and 20 in a way the bourgeoisie does not tremble just to think about it?
Nicolás Del Caño managed to do both as spokesperson for the FITU tribute in the Chamber of Representatives. In that den of bandits at the service of the bosses' interests, there were the same parties hated by the workers in 2001, so in order to pay the martyrs of 2001 a decent tribute, a strong and courageous voice was needed to point out to that parliament and to the bosses' parties as responsible not only for the workers' deaths but for having subjected the workers to the worst miseries seen in decades. In that way Del Caño and the rest of FIT-U would have begun to honor their comrades. For the cry of their fight was "everyobody out", and "everybody" referred to all who were sitting in that room. On the other hand, these people were calm that no one reminded themthe terror they went through those days when they were recognized in the streets and consequently kicked out; and when they feared they would lose everything. Not saying this to their faces allows the murderers and repressors of our class to exempt themselves from guilt and charge and continue talking about "democracy". It was total cowardice on the part of the FIT-U deputies and unworthy of someone who claims to be from the left not to have been pushed out of the room for saying these truths.
In the revolutionary days of December, the masses ended not only the radical government of De la Rúa, as Del Caño said, but they also derailed the bourgeois regime. But Del Caño does not say this.He needs to hide it to be able to say the infamy that it was a "democratic mobilization" that overthrew the government. For, since the general strike of December 13, the working class had come out en masse taking the fight in their hands, surpassing the bureaucracy that wanted a demobilized strike to decompress the mass rage. Far from that, the strike was transformed into a true day of struggle followed by the ruined middle classes, merchants, unemployed workers, with pickets, demonstrations and roadblocks throughout the country, pickets attacking the banks and clashes in the streets with the police in several cities across the country. On December 19, the hungry masses went out to look for food for their families, attacking the large supermarkets and the police began the crackdown, while the politicians of the Alliance and the Justicialista Party (PJ) met with the union bureaucracy of both CGTs, together with the bosses of the "Productive Front" and the Church in the headquarters of Caritas (Charity) to make their last attempts to support the government of De la Rúa. But it was late and the middle classes did not support the government and entered the scene through the cracks that the fighting of the labor movement had opened. To speak of "democratic mobilization" or mobilizations in general is to put another shovelful of dirt to the memory of our dead and their combats, it is an absolute cowardice of Del Caño so as not to scare away the bourgeois and instead they live in peace.
On the evening of the 19th, the middle classes responded to the "state of siege" decreed by De la Rúa with a massive nocturnal mobilization to the Plaza de Mayo. It was the war cry "Everybody out, not a single one remain" welded the working-class and popular alliance in the streets; thus the middle classes leaned toward the labor movement that was fighting. On December 20, with the working youth barricading the streets and confronting the police throughout the day, the day in which our martyrs were killed by the repressive forces, the masses managed to overcome the resistance of the exploiters, and overthrow the government of the Alliance, the monopolies and the IMF.
These enormous revolutionary days led by the working class and the most exploited sectors overflowed the union bureaucracy, the Stalinist leadership of the unemployed movements and even the left parties with their impetus and opened the revolution in Argentina, the first one of the 21st century along with the Palestinian revolution.
Today in Rawson, Chubut, the masses are coming out to fight.They are fed up with the Arcioni-Fernández government that has left millions of unemployed in the region, has subjected teachers and civil servants to thousands of hardships throughout the province and is now devoted to increase their terrible living conditions and the plundering of the territory by supporting the mega-mining companies.Now, the people of Chubut aretaking to the streets and have burnt down police stations and the government house. They, with their struggle, are the ones who best pay tribute to the martyrs of December 20, 2001.
Clara Varga
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