A NEW REVENGE TRIAL HAS BEGAN
The oil companies’ court accuses the comrades of the “felony” of fighting for workers’ rights
As soon as the trial started, the fascist public prosecutor Candia pointed his accusing finger at workers. The questions, like in 2013, were only on how workers’ struggle of Bacssa against lay-off and for the payment of estrangement was carried out.
Workers’ families, treated as criminals, saw the comrades worried, because they know that their fight was rightful and today they must endure a trial with fake evidence and a huge set up.
“What was the demand? How did you demand it? What damaged did you cause to the company?” Those were public prosecutor Candia’s questions to the three comrades and the witnesses who assisted there to defend them. “What kind of relationship do you have with the head of the oil union?” the prosecutor asked Vibares, who in 2014 was a shop steward with Oñate and they struggled, together with other shop stewards, for Bacssa workers’ demands.
Anybody who was part of that struggle remembers that the comrades of Bacssa started struggling camping at the company’s doors when Vidal’s oil union bureaucracy turned their back on the workers. In the mean time several shop stewards visited the oil field in Las Heras where workers were struggling.
The comrades spent over three months in prison, where they received all kinds of tortures and humiliations. But everybody knows that their freedom was achieved when shop stewards from different oil companies of Las Heras, Caleta Olivia and Truncdo –against Vidal’s bureaucracy- started organizing a general strike in the oil branch in the North of the Province to conquer comrades’ freedom. The appeal to the strike made oil companies’ justice pull back and freed the comrades.
Candia and the Court are once again aiming to chasten. They want to show workers who struggle in defence of our dismissed comrades and our rights as criminals.
That is how they behave in the country and all over the world. Those of us who are defending against the bosses and government’s onslaught are treated as terrorists. Oil companies that plunder our country, suck our blood and destroy our muscles are shown as victims.
At about 4:30 pm the sessions ended and there has been a break until April 29th.
At the gates of the court, comrades Vibares, Oñate and Armoa thanked everybody who was there and they called to fight for the freedom of all political prisoners and against workers’ persecution.
The justice at the service of bosses and their government has gathered forces to chaste workers!
Unity of the workers, no matter what!
This is what workers of Línea Este did. On April 3rd bus drivers were imprisoned due to a struggle in 2017 for decent labour conditions. Police broke into their houses fully armed. Four comrades of Línea Este are still in jail and their families terrified.
This very same police imprisoned 12 Anarchist comrades when G-20 Summit met in Argentina and today denies comrade Anahí Salcedo medical attention.
This is how the powerful’s justice workers. It sets free the killers of Santiago Maldonado; it leaves unpunished Prefectura who murdered Rafa Nahuel; and the responsible politicians for the murder of Dario and Maxi are still free.
Workers only receive lay-offs, flexibilization and hike in the cost of living; and if we rise to confront this attack we are persecuted, imprisoned, repressed and killed.
Exploiters deepen their attack against the exploited and try to cover it with the elections like they did in 2017, when they disappeared Santiago and shot Rafa Nahuel.
From Caleta Olivia to La Plata, from Marcos Paz (where Daniel Ruiz has been imprisoned) to Temuco, Chile (where Facundo Jones Huala is)…
We cannot fight for our demands with hostages of our class in the state prisons!
One struggle to free all political prisoners!
NATIONAL COORDINATING BODY OF ALL WORKERS’ ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE FREEDOM OF ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS FOR STRUGGLING AND DROPPING ALL CHARGES AGAINST ALL THE COMRADES
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