On the march convened by the FIT-U against the IMF on 12/11
The IMF and imperialism will be defeated
with the method of class struggle and revolution
The Kirchnerites and the Fernandezes, like the anti-workers of the PRO and the UCR, are serial repayers to the bankers and the IMF of the spurious and illegitimate foreign debt scam. They did it with Alfonsín, pushing the hungry people to riot the supermarkets to eat. With Menem, they repaid the debt with the state-owned companies. With the Kirchners, the state undertook the debt of private companies and renegotiated it in 2005. They increased it to 250 billion dollars.
With the PRO, they went into debt again and now the PJ is repaying it again with the hunger of the people.
Today the fraudulent foreign debt of Videla and the capitalists amounts to over 340 billion dollars! Why is only the 44 billion dollars debt owed to the IMF mentioned? What do they want to hide?
Imperialism controls 80% of the production and distribution in the Argentine economy: banks, agricultural income, laboratories, car companies, oil, the steel industry ...
Pretending to defeat the IMF and not paying the foreign debt scam without expropriating the transnationals and bankers without compensation, and without defeating their regime and government, that is, without a socialist revolution, is to deceit the people.
In 2001, while (the then president) La Rúa was falling down, and the masses were in the streets, the state of siege had been defeated and the union bureaucracy was unable to take to the streets, workers left more than 30 dead to bring down 5 presidents in a week… One of them, Rodríguez Saá, dared to say in Parliament (trying to flirt with the people, get them off the streets and deceive them) that the foreign debt was not going to be paid… but his “adventure” lasted 3 days! Duhalde and the other governors kicked him out from Mar del Plata... he presented his resignation to his aide... You will not find either "brotherhood" or "sisterhood" in the Parliament of the bourgeoisie to cancel the debt.
Stalinism announced that imperialism could be defeated in a first stage together with the native bourgeoisies or in their parliaments. Thus, they ended up strangling every revolution that arose throughout the colonial world in the last decades.
There is the example of the "peaceful path to socialism" in Chile in the '70s... That experience produced thousands of corpses of workers in common graves.
Proposing that with a great fight creating enough pressure on the Parliament the non-payment of the debt can be conquered by law is a fallacy. This is what the current FIT-U’s policy is all about. The anti-imperialist "green tide" (i.e., similar to the large rallies organized to pressure for the safe abortion law, NT) that they proclaim will end as in Chile... stained red with working class blood.
Contrariwise, only with the methods of class struggle, i.e., by general strikes, pickets and barricades; fighting like in 2001 and the Cordobazo; those are the ways to prepare the defeat of imperialism, which will be conquered with the victory of a revolution.
Yes. A revolution. Are they so afraid and servile that they don't want to use that word? Let's say it! Let's fight openly for it! The conditions must be created for a workers' counteroffensive, uniting the self-organized workers, the picketers and the militant unionism to confront this government and the anti-worker opposition, Wall Street managers, and their corrupt and sold-out bureaucrats.
If the 11/12 march is at the service of this path, the fight against the IMF will take a step forward.
The electoral campaign is over. Here it is about the class struggle, the war against imperialism and the revolution to conquer national independence.
Carlos Munzer for the ‘International Workers’ Organizer’
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