In this rotten capitalist system, the unemployed set themselves on fire so that their demands for work and supplies for the empty hospital in Pocitos, Salta province, are heard.
The Fernándezes, their meetings with their partners representing the oligarchy and the capitalist gangs, are very far from the demands of the starving people and workers of Argentina.
Millions are locked up in their houses without water, without sewers ... entire families of 8 or 10 people are crowded, without gel alcohol, without bleach and without food! Those on top condemn the poor people to death and pandemic.
Millions of workers out of the books were fired from their jobs and will not be rehired until it is convenient for the employers. Surviving days and days without a peso to eat or buy basic hygiene products: that is the quarantine imposed by the government and the bosses!
Workers from industries and services declared "essential", those who are really guaranteeing that everything works during quarantine, continue to work without any protection, exposed to contagion and death. Among the workers of Siderar, Ingenios Ledesma, Coto, FelFort, Frigorífico Penta, hospitals, bus lines, etc. complaints are multiplying about the criminal conditions in which the employers makes them work.
Meanwhile, the capitalists are receiving millions dollars in subsidies from the government.
Respirator factories were paralyzed because all governments destroyed hospitals and did not equip them. Now entrepreneurs -like Keegan, owner of Tecmey, leader of the PJ in Córdoba Province- are producing them again ... at US $ 10,000 each!
Bosses and workers are "facing together" the crisis? Fakers! We are ruled by a handful of exploiters who guarantee their profits in the midst of hell for the vast majority of the people! They have multiplied a thousand times the sufferings that the workers were suffering with the economic crisis.
But they know that misery and pandemic could very well end up causing an outburst of the exploited. Hunger and misery can no longer be endured in the slum areas. That is why the Fernándezes have agreed with all the capitalist gangs in armoring the regime by militarizing the streets.
The PJ and the UCR, the same ones that called the 1976 coup, created a social climate like that one during the Malvinas war or the 1978 World Cup, of reactionary "national unity", in order take the Armed Forces to the streets with "good- natured faces", behind the red crosses and field hospitals, with the aim of crushing the hungry people if they get out the streets. The terror of the exploiters is such that those on top are discussing whether they declare the "state of siege" (l law) or not.
Today we are going to a new March 24 (anniversary of the 1976 coup, NT) with the Armed Forces in the streets!
It is the union and piquetera (unemployed organizations, NT) bureaucracies, which are complicit in these mass layoffs and the hunger of millions of dispossessed. They know where the shops, factories and fields are where 5 million Argentinian workers work out of the books or with garbage contracts. But the bureaucracy hid to sell them out! In the pandemic, the social pact amounts to the workers either working or in quarantine of hunger, while those at the top are sheltered and making millions. Traitors!
The FIT-U submitted to "national unity" and ran to attend the meetings that the government held with the heads of all the parliamentary caucuses as counselor of the Fernandezes.
The FIT-U has handed over the leadership of the crisis and the public health to the bourgeoisie, to which it contributed advising 20 measures to mitigate the crisis that do not touch the property of the capitalists, that is, they do not raise the expropriation of all private health institutions and laboratories to put them to operate under the control of unions, universities and doctors. They do not call to guarantee through this expropriation the money to pay the out-of-the-books workers and unemployed the wages lost during the lsy-offs and suspensions, and a minimum wage of $ 62,000 a month for all.
When all the luxury homes of urban landlords should be occupied to house the homeless, and it is more necessary than ever to expropriate oligarchy and supermarkets to feed the people, the "anti-capitalists", instead, beg the exploiters for subsidies and alms for those from below, giving advice to Fernández, the head of the exploiters, as if the bourgeoisie could solve this crisis in favor of the people.
That is not true. Those closed doors meetings of the heads of the Parliament caucuses along with the business chambers are the meetings of the General Staff of the capitalists, who secretly conspire against the people. It is undeniable that the FIT-U has actually entered the government of national unity.
Del Caño and Del Plá have to immediately abandon backroom politics and openly denounce the attendants to the meetings as enemies of the workers, saying publicly what is being discussed there so that the people know how the former conspire against them! How can it be that Del Caño conducts teleconferences with Massa and the bosses' deputies? He should have to conduct teleconferences with the workers and their organizations, from the Posadas Hospital, the Garrahan Pediatric, the SUTEBA-Matanza teacher union, Siderar workers representatives, with the combative unionism, the factory commissions snatched to the bureaucracy, the recovered and (self- managed) factories, so to call together to take the crisis in their hands!
Here the pandemic is making us seriously ill, but it is capitalism that kills. Enough is enough!
The working class must lead the fight against the coronavirus pandemic!
The only ones who are risking their lives to make everything work in the midst of the pandemic are the food, laboratories, health, transportation, etc. workers. They are the only ones who take care of the health and life of the people! ! We must take the crisis into our hands!
Food, health, Siderar, etc. workers have to coordinate to immediately set up a National Public Health Committee with nurses, doctors, universities, unions, INTI, etc. to take control in their hands; a committee with full powers, above all the regime institutions.
The Medicine Faculty of UBA has to be part of it with all the best scientists from Malbrán and INTI and the Councils of Doctors of Argentina and the world to centralize a plan to face the pandemic.
But this cannot be done without rebelling the workers against the traitors of the CGT and CTA bureaucracy. Out with (union bureaucrats)Daer, Calo, Moyano, Yasky, Godoy, servants of the government and the capitalists!
Assemblies in all hospitals, food factories, laboratories, bus lines, etc. to call to set up the National Committee of Public Health!
A Workers' Health Emergency Plan must be imposed right now in the streets, under the leadership of this committee, which guarantees that the people do not pay for this crisis or stop before any privilege or property right, to make the necessary resources available to a health plan for the population.
In this quarantine, we must have maximum health and hygiene conditions for the exploited. All hotels will be emptied and disinfected, in controlled groups by nurses, doctors, and medical students to ensure disinfection and cleanliness for the entire population.
No working family must stay at risk of hunger or deprivation. Minimum, vital and mobile salary of $ 69 thousand for all workers. Tenants must be liberated from paying the rent. There is money available! the imperialist bankers, the UIA, the oligarchy, who have fled millions of dollars in recent years have to put the money. Not a single peso for the IMF and Wall Street parasites! Expropriation of private clinics and the entire Church property!
Let no one go to work if it is not controlled by doctors from all the social health services in defense of the workers. There are 3,200 detained for "violating quarantine", mostly out of the books workers who are forced to go to work. But Paolo Rocca, CEO of Techint, a government's friend, who has thousands of workers producing in a non- "essential" industry, openly violating quarantine, is not touched. Jail to Rocca and all the bosses who violate quarantine!
For free and public care for just the people, private hospitals and sanatories must be nationalized without compensation and under the control of committees of workers and professionals. Private schools with luxury facilities and luxury hotels must be expropriate to transform them into hospitals with the best intensive care rooms.
To provide inputs, expropriation of private laboratories and high-tech equipment!
We want all the auto factories, to reconvert them to produce respiratores at large scale!
So there is not lack of food for the workers, it is necessary to expropriate the large supermarket chains and the land and storage of the oligarchy, and form committees to supply workers and consumers by neighborhood, to guarantee foodstuff distribution in the midst of the pandemic.
The Army and the murderous police are in the streets to kill the people if they rise up because of hunger and misery. Out with the Army and the police from the streets!
Patrolling the streets and caring for the people has to be done by the people themselves. For Neighborhood Surveillance Committees of workers' organizations and unions, along with the neighbors! Freedom to the 3,200 detained comrades!
These measures are elementary and essential. The working class' leading of the fight against the coronavirus becomes decisive, or those on top will make the poor people pay for the pandemics with hunger, dismissal and death.
They took everything from us. Don't let them lie us ...
Those on top are only interested in their profits.
Only those from below we are interested in life!
Juan Córdoba, from the Editorial Board of Democracia Obrera - Argentina
Alejandro Villarruel, for Avanzada Obrera “Lista Negra ” from Río Santiago Shipyard
Ben and PM from Democracia Obrera - Spanish State.
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