On May 27, a new Plenary of Combative Unionism (PSC) was held online. The union figures belonging to the PO, the MST, IS, the NMAS, some representatives of the PTS union groups and just a couple of spokesmen of workers in struggle spoke centrally.
In the previous days, delegates and recognized working class-oriented meat workers, teachers and naval leaders -some of them persecuted by the judges- had been denied the possibility of taking part in the meeting for being critical of the leadership of the PSC.
What the Plenary resolved, in the midst of a hard working-class resistance against the attack by Fernández, the IMF and the capitalists, was to promote a national day of struggle... on next June 16 and participate in the mobilization of "Not one less" (against violence on women, NT) on June 3.
Clearly this is a far cry from what the fighting workers need. The El Penta meat processing plant workers have been fighting for 60 days. The working-class neighborhood of Villa Azul (Quilmes) was converted into a ghetto under military siege 5 days ago. Trelew textiles and fish canning workers have not received their salaries for months, as well as teachers and state officials in Chubut. Andacollo miners are persecuted by the intelligence services. The 208 municipal workers of Pico Truncado (Santa Cruz) remain without being reinstated and were brutally shot and imprisoned by the Kirchnerite Infantry and Police, as (Cordoba Governor Juan) Schiaretti did with the Cordobese municipal workers of Villa María, while the doctors of that province rise up in the face of inhumane working conditions amid a deadly pandemic.
What is needed at this time of crash and pandemic is a leap in workers' self-organization and in the centralization of fighting, to declare war on the union and piquetera bureaucracy and open the way for the general strike. That is the way to dispute the leadership of the bureaucracy, free the hands of the working class as a whole and prepare a mass political struggle against Fernández, a new Argentinazo. There are plenty of conditions to do this.
But the PSC has refused to push that policy. Two days earlier, its leaders had turned their backs on the workers' coordination meeting called by the El Penta workers. Neither Crespo (SUTNA, Tire workers' union), nor Sobrero (UF-Haedo, railworkers), nor Pacagnini (CICOP, Physicians' association), nor FIT-U parliamentarians such as Del Cano or Del Pla, were there. There came only a small delegation to invite to the virtual plenary on the 27th.
The PSC also did not send delegations (nor have they done so far) to Villa Azul's entrances.
Although they say by virtual means that "unity and coordination of the struggles" is needed, the leaders of the PSC have not taken a single resolution to specify the effective unification of the sectors that are fighting in a unified plan of struggle with the methods of the working class: strikes, pickets, etc.
Why? Because the PSC does not consider that task. In all these years, it has had the opportunity to group and unify all the sectors that faced the capitalists and their governments, but has refused to do so.
The policy of the PSC has the imprint of the parliamentary left, to which the leaders of the PSC adhere: pressuring Congress to vote for laws favorable to workers, such as the prohibition of layoffs or a progressive tax on large fortunes.
The PSC is not "independent". Its policy is for the bourgeoisie in crisis to solve the suffering of the exploited.
It is not "combative", because they are not in the streets or fighting alongside the workers resistance.
It is not "classist" because it does not defend workers' democracy like the classism of the 1970s and only its members can speak.
The PSC is, in short, a trade union tendency of the parliamentary left, which refuses to promote any workers' self-organization and prepare a mass political struggle like that of Chile, Ecuador, Iraq, the United States.
The workers of Penta meat-processing plant, the state, textile, food, mine workers and all those who are fighting, should not be separated for one more day. The same class, the same fight!
Everyone to Villa Azul! Unions, workers' organizations and militant piqueteros movements must be there!
Organizations ripped from the union bureaucracy have to be at the service of setting up a National Coordinating Board that unifies all the sectors facing the attack of the government and the capitalists!
Let's recover the true working classism of the 1969 Cordobazo, the 1974 Villazo and the Interfabrile Coordinating Boards of the 1970s!
Editorial Committee of
Workers Democracy
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Protest of workers of the fish industry, public servants and the retired in Trelew - 05/20/2020
Workers from the meat processing plant
struggling to be re-hired
District Villa Azul fenced and militarized
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