Argentina - February 18, 2019

The IMF takes an exam to the bosses' parties towards the October elections...

Down with the electoral trap of Macri, the PJ and the Kirchnerism,
under the Guardianship of the IMF and the G20!

Let's to retake the road of December 18 and 19 fighting like in Haiti and France.

On March 8:
Let's go to the CGT and the CTA to impose the 72-hour general strike!
We need a Workers' Congress to vote a fighting plan and prepare the revolutionary general strike to throw Macri and the IMF away!

The Government and the bosses' opposition march to the October electoral trap under IMF guardianship. Lagarde, a true Trump’s viceroy, meets with the Government, opposition leaders and even CGT bureaucracy.

This means that US imperialism is advancing in Argentina. Trump has declared war on the exploited of the continent. The national emergency decree is a Yankee threat of military intervention in Venezuela. With this Trump returns to show the imperialism will start whipping the oppressed peoples of Latin America.
That is why he sends his Viceroy Lagarde to supervise that his servants have done their duties properly. Whoever wins in October, the IMF and Trump will govern. All bosses' parties will guarantee the looting of the nation by a handful of super-banks and Yankee, European and Japanese monopolies.
Thanks to the betrayal of CGT and CTA union bureaucracy and as well as picketer bureaucracy, which saved Macri when he was in absolute crisis, the exploiters are making the working class pay for the economic crisis, through thousands of layoffs, increases of fares, devaluation, unstoppable inflation, labour flexibility, etc. The example of the multimillionaire employers of Madanes, which wants to dismiss over 400 workers in Fate, is clear.
Moyano, Yasky and the gang 21F said "we all together can get rid of him in the 2019 election" and they all force workers to kneel before the PJ and Kirchnerism. Scabs. These are the results: the working class with dozens of partial defeats and a nation under the direct tutelage of the IMF.
The "club of the 6" (the imperialist bank, the employers' association of steel, construction and commerce, the Rural Society and the Stock Exchange) has a clear objective in these elections: to consolidate everything that they have stolen from the working class so far and strengthen the regime to make law labour flexibility a law, which they have been imposing on workers with layoffs, devaluation and ending with collective labour agreements.
All the bourgeois fractions and its parties, Cambiemos, PJ, Kirchnerism, agree with this plan. They all belong to the IMF and the "Club of the 6".
That is why transnational corporations and bankers go to the electoral trap in a brutal war declared against the working class, while the traitors of the union bureaucracy and picketer bureaucracy -ministers without portfolio of the Government- give social peace selling out all workers conquers.
The judges' caste -named by Videla, the PJ and Radical Party Governments- leads the repression against workers and popular fighters in defence of private property. That is why Gendarmerie and Prefecture murdered Santiago and Rafa. That is why the anti-worker judges keep Daniel Ruiz and the young anarchists imprisoned, they persecute Sebastián Romero internationally and they have more than 7,500 prosecuted comrades.

The workers are paying not having thrown the union bureaucracy after that great struggle on March 7th 2017, when we snatched the balcony and expelled those IMF agents from their own act. They saved the Gvernment and now terrorized the workers with an infamous blackmail: "if you do not make any trouble, I will guarantee you keep your job".
The picketer bureaucracy, Vatican's servants, is in charge of maintaining the employed and unemployed workers separated, thus preventing a unified struggle against dismissals, for decent work, as the piqueters movement in 2000-2001.
Unfortunately, the parliamentary left - FIT, MST, MAS- has supported this plan, showing how far his electoral drunkenness has come. Far from denouncing the true nature of the October elections trap, they have been discussing their candidacies, collaborating in subordinate the working class to the trap.
Their leadership in SUTNA, UF-Haedo, SUTEBA, ATE, UOM-Acindar, the unemployed movement, their parliamentary seats, etc., are not at the service of unifying the workers' ranks to face the IMF class war but to divide the workers according to their miserable interests of the "apparatus” towards the elections.
Last year at the beginning of October they opened their electoral campaign by making their own little acts. In November they marched peacefully against the G20 according to the route agreed with Bulrich Minister. Today they are mobilizing "combative unionism" with small trade union delegations from the PO, IS, MAS and the MST, while the PTS sends barely a brief greeting.

The axis of the politics of these parties is not to organize the struggle of the Argentine proletariat against imperialism, but to count votes at ballot boxes.
But the last word has not been said yet. The working class weight has to be recovered in national political life. They are the only ones who can stop the imperialist plundering of the nation and the offensive of the slavers of the IMF and G20.
We must take up the task that was left unfinished on December 18 and 19, 2017: defeat the Government of the CEOs and the IMF. The masses of Haiti show how the plans of imperialism are confronted! There will not be democracy in Argentina and Latin America if we do not get rid of the IMF.
Different sectors of the labour movement are looking for a way to unify their ranks. The workers of the naval industry are propelling a workers' plenary meeting in Buenos Aires on February 26. We cannot keep wasting opportunities.

SUTNA, today under attack by the slave employers of Madanes in Fate, UF-Haedo, the combative teachers fighting against Vidal, the public servants, the women's movement that is preparing an international strike on March 8th...
Everybody to the Naval Plenary on February 26! For Workers' Unity! March 8th must be taken into their hands by the entire labour movement and fundamentally by the textile workers, the comrades of the UOM, the food industry workers, the fish processing workers, the picketer movement, the most exploited of the working class, always forgotten by the unions' bureaucrats.
The working woman must lead a large march to the CGT and the CTA to impose a general strike of 72 hours. On March 6, 7 and 8!
Out with the scabs of union and picketer bureaucracies!
National Congress of the Employed and Unemployed workers with rank and file delegates from the entire labour movement!
Workers' Self-defence Committees against repression!

The government and the IMF will not be defeated in the ballot box...

• To disregard the external debt
• To end the begging of "Work Plans" and welfare, to fight for decent jobs, the reduction of the working day with a salary equal to the cost of living.
• To conquer a single collective bargain for the entire labour movement.
• To fight for expropriation without compensation and under workers’ control of any factory that closes, suspends or dismisses
• To expropriate the oligarchy, the banks and the transnationals without compensation under workers control
• For the freedom of Daniel Ruiz, Jones Huala, the young anarchists, for the acquittal of the oil workers of Las Heras and the workers of Tierra del Fuego, to end the persecution of Alejandro Villarruel and the workers of ARS and Tadanor
• To conquer the Workers and Popular Tribunals to judge the murderers of Santiago Maldonado, Rafael Nahuel, Ronald Orellana and all our martyrs...

We must defeat the electoral trap of Macri, the PJ and the Kirchnerism!
Let's retake the path of December 18 and 19...
We need a struggle plan and the revolutionary general strike to defeat Macri and drive the IMF out!
ARGENTINA WILL BE SOCIALIST OR A WALL STREET COLONY 

Martín Guerrero for the Editorial Board of Worker Democracy.