Argentina - November 20, 2022

Sunday 20/11/2022:
Hebe de Bonafini died

After years of an intransigent fight against the dictatorship and the infamous regime that saved the genocidal militiamen, Hebe reconciled herself, making a pact with the K and the bosses' politicians of Peronism, lackeys of imperialism…

After 25 years of struggle against the dictatorship and the impunity of the genocides that the bosses' parties and the justice for the rich tried to impose with Due Obedience, the Final Point, and the Pardons… After years of intransigent struggle against the dictatorship and the infamous regime of bosses' parties and the Videlist judges, Hebe, from 2003, reconciled with the Kirchners and Peronism, the bosses' political representatives of the oil gangs of the south, the UIA, and the traitors of the trade union bureaucracy.

Hebe made a pact and joined Kirchnerism and called to support the PJ in 2003, a bosses' party that called to "annihilate the guerrilla" with Lastiri in 1975, not without first organizing the AAA, with which the Peronist government of the 1970s assassinated the best of the workers' vanguard before the military dictatorship coup. A few days ago, at an event in La Plata, Kirchner claimed to belong to this Peronism. What she claims leaves no room for doubt. She had just met with the traitors and sell-outs of the UOM trade union bureaucracy, a scourge that controls the industrial workers' movement like an internal police force.

In December 2001, in the face of a rising Argentinazo, the infamous regime exploded and the government of De la Rúa, hated by the masses, fell. As with the murderous gorilla repressors of the UCR, he decreed a state of siege, assassinating 40 fighters while repressing thousands of workers and youth in the streets.
The Mothers in the Plaza de Mayo, who with a heroic attitude bravely resisted, led by Hebe, were surrounded by the horses of the soldiers. This is the truth, but it is also true that the same CTA, today aligned with Kirchnerism, accused in December 2001 those who fought in the Plaza de Mayo, in Diagonal Norte, and in all the streets of the country of being "intelligence services". Wretched!

The revolutionary fall of the De la Rúa government was followed by the "siren songs" of all the bosses' parties stained by their support for the military dictatorship, by their surrender to the carapintadas, and by their rescue of thousands of genocides. They had to ingratiate themselves with the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
Kirchner, who had just come from being the first Menemist and the first privatizer in Patagonia, and who with Cristina fervently supported the pardon of the militiamen, farcically proclaimed himself "heir to the struggle of the 1970s". He was able to do so because those forces that swindled the Latin American revolution called "Bolivarian", with Castro, Morales, and Chavez at the head, came to Argentina to tell the workers that they had to "support an unknown Kirchner" and go to work for two coins because then he "was going to distribute", they said.

A new bourgeois political movement had to be set up, since the PJ, the UCR and all the parties were hated by the masses. That is what the embrace of Castro and Chavez with Kirchner and their "anti-imperialist" talk was all about.

And Hebe was reconciled! She covered with a halo of struggle and of the left one of the most anti-worker bosses' parties, like Peronism, so that, with the Kirchners at its head, "they would get bourgeois Argentina out of the hell (as they like to say) that had begun in 2001".  

Hebe surrendered and reconciled herself with the politicians and parties that since '83 only sought to save the genocides, punishing a few, when all the militiamen were the murderers. She joined the party that boasted of having judges and prosecutors of "Legitimate Justice", as collaborators of the dictatorship as the gorilla judges of the Libertadora and the UCR.

Hebe reconciled herself and with the Kirchners recognized the fraudulent foreign debt contracted by the military dictatorship, which subjected the nation to imperialism, extracted with genocide and the blood of the disappeared.

Neither forgetting nor forgiving!

We, revolutionary socialists, will not silence either the heroism or the battle that Hebe de Bonafini fought for years, but neither will we silence the fact that in recent years she reconciled herself with the same institutions of this murderous state that killed and made our comrades disappear.

We, revolutionary socialists, will not keep quiet that the Kirchners were protected by the military in Santa Cruz and the Air Force in particular. That they were lawyers to make usury and not to defend the disappeared.

We are not going to keep quiet that they supported Due Obedience and Final Point. And Hebe knew it and supported them... Hebe reconciled herself.

We, revolutionary socialists, affirm that the genocide in Argentina was a counter-revolutionary coup organized by the big bourgeoisie and imperialism to crush a workers' revolution that was underway. The same thing was done throughout Latin America with Operation Condor to crush the great revolutions of the 1970s, that of the Industrial Cordons in Chile, that of the Asamblea Popular in Bolivia, that of the Factory Occuppations   in Uruguay.

In 2003, Kirchner took down a portrait of Videla from the walls of La Rosada. In Congress, the laws of Due Obedience and Full Stop were annulled. A new swindle of the people

The bosses' politicians left the trial and punishment in the hands of the judges, the same ones who prosecuted 7,000 workers during Kirchnerism; the same ones who imprisoned, repressed, tortured, and sentenced to life imprisonment the oil workers of Las Heras; the same ones they now call "the judicial party". How could it be otherwise? They ended up saving most of the genocides when all the officers, militiamen, policemen, and millionaire judges were responsible for the genocide.

The travesty of these trials is that they are still looking for Julio Lopez. Yes, let the PJ of the Province of Buenos Aires and the police that he has been leading for decades, and let the judges of La Plata say where he is! They know!

Hebe questioned Julio López's quality as a witness while he embraced Milani, who boasted of "ignoring" that in La Rioja and in the whole region of Cuyo as in the country, comrades were kidnapped and disappeared, and saved him. He gave himself up and was reconciled. A tragedy.

There will be neither forgetting nor forgiveness nor reconciliation with the bosses' parties like the PJ and the UCR, who are the ones who called Videla, and before that with the AAA to drown the Argentinean working class in blood!

The state genocide was the genocide of the capitalists against the working class that rose up in the 1970s. All the state institutions were complicit and subordinated to it. That is what the bravery and heroism of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and all the youth and workers who actively participated in the resistance against the dictatorship was about.

The struggle continues and it is for the trial and punishment of all the genocides and all the repressors of the parties of the capitalists who murdered tens of workers' fighters and prosecuted thousands for fighting in this democracy for the rich. Against the Videlist justice of the PJ and the UCR.

The struggle continues against this slave-owning democracy, supported by the arch-reactionary Constitution of '53, by judges for life coming from the imperialist gangs, intelligence services, and all collaborators of the military party. They have no hesitation, together with the bosses' politicians, to send the police and the gendarmerie to assassinate workers fighting in the streets and on the roads, like Aníbal Verón, Teresa Rodriguez, Carlos Fuentealba, Victor Choque, the martyrs of the hunger uprising of '89 and the Argentinazo of 2001, Santiago Maldonado, Rafael Nahuel, Facundo Astudillo Castro, Kostequi and Santillán, those assassinated in the Indoamericano…

There will be neither forgetting nor forgiveness nor reconciliation with the party of the Kirchners and Cristina who tortured, imprisoned, and with their Kirchnerist and UCR judges sentenced to life imprisonment the oil workers of Las Heras for their "crime" of fighting against the wage tax and against job insecurity! Cristina gave the order to torture and condemn them.

Mothers of Plaza de Mayo like Elia Espen, from the very beginning, were at the head of the trial to prevent the conviction. Nora Cortiñas always showed her solidarity and was present with the comrades... The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo are the ones who fight together with the comrades! They are the heirs of the heroic struggle they started for their children during the dictatorship... They, and nobody else but them, are the ones who did not reconcile!

Days ago, in the La Plata stadium, Kirchner called for a "democratic pact", not to kill each other among the bosses' politicians. Total cynicism. Because the UCR, the Macri, and the PJ are tired of killing workers these years, and they still cry out for justice. The pact that Kirchner is seeking is for her and her owning class and not for the working class, which the murderous gendarmerie of the Kirchners and Bullrich never tired of repressing.

Hebe and her people, supported by the scam of the "Bolivarian revolution", reconciled themselves with the murderers of the people. With Kirchnerism, one more political current of those directed by the US embassy and the IMF.

But from that heroic movement of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo not only came out "Hebes" who reconciled and capitulated, but also heroic, brave, and uncompromising Mothers who continue to fight against the regime and the repressive forces, and to support every struggle of the workers. Hebe may have reconciled, but the brave Mothers of Plaza de Mayo who are still fighting today have not reconciled at all.

Open the road to the Argentinazo!

To put an end to the military party and the judicial party, to disband the murderous police, and put an end to this regime of parties that are lackeys of Wall Street and the US;

For the people to eat and work with dignity;

To break with the IMF and expropriate without payment the oligarchy that starves the people and the transnationals that plunder the nation;

Only a revolutionary workers' and popular government, supported by a triumphant revolution, is the only one that will be able to bring justice to the starving and murderers of the people, dissolving the murderous police and the Peronist-Radical-Videlista caste of judges, imposing workers' and popular tribunals and expropriating the expropriators of the people!

Then there will be justice and never forgetting or reconciliation.