Legislative Elections 14N

The capitalists are celebrating.
Their parties celebrate their victory in the electoral trap...

 The working class has nothing to celebrate

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These elections give for everyone to celebrate.
You have to ask yourself: what do workers have to celebrate?  Maybe a wage increase according to inflation of 52%? The fall of the union bureaucracy and the appearance of representative bodies of hundreds of thousands of self-organized workers in struggle?  That the labor flexibility in Toyota was defeated, and there are no more informal jobs in Argentina?  That there is decent work for all the unemployed?  Perhaps that some magician has emerged who invents that all these demands are conquered in the Parliament of the oligarchy, the big capitalists, imperialism and their parties?  Oh, I know!  That appeared 5 million houses have been built for the homeless?
You have to be very reformist and part of this regime to celebrate that an infamous electoral trap was imposed to distract the masses, get them out of the struggle and deepen one of the most brutal attacks that the labor movement has suffered in history.

That the capitalists celebrate their deceptions and frauds to the workers has consistency. The Fernandez government (which is a coalition of different peronist groups, called "Front of All", NT) which looked much weakened, has been strengthened. But it’s because it has already knelt before the IMF that supports it, while it is willing to deepen the great attack against the working class.
Juntos por el Cambio (Together for Change) is leaping for joy: it has brought by the hand the old reactionary UCR once again strengthened, at the same time that they were voted by millions of workers to “punish” the government. If this were not the case, they would not have gotten 40% of the votes.
Let them celebrate, but it remains to be seen whether in the class struggle they manage to finish imposing their anti-working class offensive, which means a maquila-like Argentina, a thousand times subjugated by imperialism.
The Peronist government has an ally in Congress, a perfect friend-enemy, which is the PRO party (PRO and UCR together form the "center-right" coalition Together for Change, NT).  Ultimately, those who celebrate are the "front of all" who are against the working class and the exploited people.

The FIT-U made a modest election that allows it to maintain its historical patrimony of votes, increasing it in a few hundred thousand more. But the key is the votes it reaped in (the province of) Jujuy. Undoubtedly, there it has in its hands the possibility of defeating the union bureaucracy and re-founding the Jujuy labor movement on revolutionary bases, so that it becomes a bastion of the class struggle and regrouping of the Argentine working class.
No one can deny that if Vilca (FIT-U candidate in Jujuy, NT) got 25% of the votes, the FIT-U is the majority force in the Jujuy labor movement. That is a fact. Elections are the expression, in the form of an inverted pyramid, of the reality of the classes.
Already in the '90s, Jujuy had the labor movement of that province in the national outpost of the fight in the streets against the miserable regime of the Menemato (presided by Saul Menem), a servile lackey of imperialism. It was Stalinism and its leader, Santillán, who in those years put that force to the feet of Peronism and saved the governor from being overthrown by a mass insurrection. Santillán once again covered with "prestige" the traitors of the union bureaucracy, usurping the enormous authority that the Jujuy workers had due to the fighting that took place.
There is nothing to celebrate ... Those forces must be organized to be the vanguard to set up a National Struggle Front of the self-organized, the combative classism and the piquetero movement that fight for decent work. Unions such as ATEN (teacher union of Neuquén province), SUTNA (tire workers), railroad workers and the combative piquetero movement have in their hands, together with the new classist forces of the self-convened, to unite in Jujuy so that this turns into the capital of the re-founding of the combative labor movement of the country. To put the enormous electoral forces conquered in that province at the service of setting up an organization of power of the workers to expropriate without compensation the Blaquier (an oligarch family of landowners and factory/mills bosses that "own" the Jujuy province, NT) and their empire of partners of the genocidal dictatorship of Videla.

That is an alternative. The other is to celebrate in the house of the enemy, which is the bourgeois Parliament, having entered it with many votes. That would be, neither more nor less than a new step towards the constitution of a new social democratic party in Argentina that in the future prepares itself to electorally capitalize on the crisis of the parties of the regime. We have seen social democratic parties win elections and even the majority of bourgeois parliaments. But from there the miserable existence to which the capitalist system subjects the exploited workers was never changed. Actually, the liberation of the workers will only be the work of the workers themselves and their victory will only be that of the socialist revolution, which will once again be celebrated by all the workers of the world.
The bourgeoisie celebrates because it already has all its forces enlisted. The bosses' parties, the PJ (Justicialista Party, other name for Peronism, which narrowly lost NT) and the PRO (which narrowly won), channeled the vote of millions of workers. The bourgeoisie has adjusted all its institutions of domination and repressive forces, which it has already been testing in harsh attacks on the workers' vanguard. Days before the elections, the judges of the rich, under the command of the US Embassy, ​​sentenced Daniel Ruiz and César Arakaki (working class fighters, NT) to prison. This sentence is a "lesson" to chastise all the fighters who win the streets to face the attack of the capitalists.

That is why the question is: what is the parliamentary left celebrating?
The elections are an opportunity to make a globular count of forces, as Engels said.
The results of this Sunday indicate that those at the top come out strengthened to attack the masses, which they took off the streets with the electoral trap, the betrayals of the bureaucracy and a harsh repression...
On the fringes, the great bosses imposed a proto-fascist movement in the streets. It even carried out an armed demonstration of uniformed thugs who flaunted their weapons in broad daylight at Luna Park Stadium.
Stop the festivities. There is no time to lose. The task of the moment is the setting up of self-defense committees against the fascist gangs to prepare an exemplary punishment for them. We must set Sebastián Romero free, who is jailed for exercising his right to self-defense against the repressive police, while the fascist militias, already created in the back rooms by the big transnational corporations and imperialism, are treated like Hollywood artists.

If the fascists can draw their 9 millimeters handguns before the whole country with impunity and to be consciously filmed, how is it that Romero was arrested for carrying a firecracker to defend himself?
Among the thugs of the union bureaucracy, the police and the new proto-fascist forces, the transnationals, the big bosses and the oligarchy have shield  themselves because they know that labor flexibility, the looting of wages and the nation, will only be imposed by winning the class war. That is what this is about, gentlemen, about class warfare and not about parties of the bourgeoisie, where only this democracy for the rich gets strengthened, which is nothing more than a fierce dictatorship of capital.
The bourgeoisie prepares its forces to impose its plans all the way. This means, as we have already seen in Latin America, counterrevolutionary actions, death, savage repression, which go on alongside every deception and peaceful "siren song" imposed by electoral traps.
Bankrupt imperialism prepares the worst attacks against the oppressed peoples it plunders. Whoever believes that there will only be putsch in Bolivia, that only the prisons of Chile, Honduras and Colombia will have thousands of political prisoners, that the corpses of the fighters will only float in the rivers of Cali, lives in a fantasy world.

In truth, we workers don’t celebrate anything because we will only do it in the streets, in the struggles, in the strikes, defeating the bureaucracy, attacking the property of the capitalists and arming ourselves with the weapons that we will take from the fascists, whom we have to smash before it's too late.
The workers will celebrate the expropriation of the expropriators of the people. We have nothing to do with all the bourgeois domination institutions. We only organize to overthrow them.
We know that the break (of the masses) with Peronism in Argentina has been and will be under the conditions of enormous offensive and revolutionary battles of the working class. This is how it was in the 1969 Cordobazo and Rosariazo, in the struggles against the Peronist government, its Triple A (fascist bands, NT) and the Rodrigazo in 1975. It was in 2001 when the working class conquered its class independence for a period, leaving more than 40 dead in the streets, shouting "Let everyone of them go away, let not a single one remain."  It will be with a new Argentinazo, this time a successful one, that those from above will stop celebrating and we from below will celebrate. That is why the parliamentary left should not be afraid to use the word "revolution", because without it there will be no solution for the exploited.

Before I forget.  Even Frank García Hernández and his appendage group of the Cuban Communist Party, which has surrendered the revolution, warmly salute and celebrate the victory of the FIT-U. He speaks of a “red tide” that would be running through Latin America, when he and his Castroite bourgeois gang have handed over all of Cuba to the world imperialist capitalist system. Meanwhile, US imperialism  uses them as "squeezed lemons" to finish defeating and crushing the island's working class, which lives on a paltry 30 U$D a month.
So much applause and so much "little letter from afar", they were to cover its back to the brutal repression that the Castroite regime was preparing for the 15N against the hungry masses of Cuba, in case they decided to return to the streets, clashing with the government and away from manipulation of the Miami gusanos.
Meanwhile, in the FIT-U events, this group of impostors, appendages of the new Cuban bourgeoisie, were applauded and cheered.
In these elections, the FIT-U maintained its flow of votes, at the level of the highest of these years. But these are only a tiny minority for any serious Marxist who wants to measure himself with the tragedy meant by the fact that the working class has in its 90% voted for its executioners. This must be stated clearly.
But a sector of workers who voted for the FIT-U, undoubtedly seek a path to struggle, under unprecedented suffering.

The parliamentary cretinism of the reformist parties makes them lose sight of the serious situation of our class and their obligations.

Seriously, what are you celebrating?

Iván León