Latest report from Argentine (published by SEP of Turkey) - Comrades from Convergencia Socialista Summarized

Macri government has big problems, because economic datas are the worst of the last years. More and more workers, poor people and important segments of petty bourgeois are claiming against Macri's neoliberal politics. Besides main business owners, only bureaucratic trade union leaders and some bourgeois parties support Macri.

But the huge protests and clashes at December 18 against labor reform have split that weak alliance by pushing some of the main union leaders to the opposition, as Hugo Moyano, president of the truck drivers association. Meanwhile, most important fractions of Partido Peronista are talking about the possibility of unity in order to participate in the next presidential elections, in 2019.

Nowadays, Macri is trying to restart his offensive expelling workers and announcing that salaries negotiations (collective bargaining) will have a maximum 15% rise in the wages, when only the inflation of the last six months is greater than it.

Macri and their ministers, with mutual understanding of magistrates, are investigating funds of truck association and another trade unions, in order to defeat their leaders. Moyano, its president, also is one of the chief managers of “AFA” – National Football Federation – and owner of some enterprises related to transport business. Macri is extorting Moyano, but Moyano reacted to convocate a demonstration next February 21 and threatening with the general strike.

Most of the trade union leaders abandoned Moyano because blackmails coming from government. These bureaucrats have a lot of unclear businesses! But, teachers, state workers and left parties will be with Moyano on 21 February against government and claiming for the general strike. Macri and the establishment are worried, knowing that thousands in the streets is a big problem for the régime, thinking that situation is already bad for them.

Crisis inside bourgeois institutions and struggles push left and combatives organizations to unite in the action. That is the reason why MST, PTS, our party-Convergencia Socialista and the others – with activists of some significative struggles – convocated a meeting next Saturday to support the strikes, claim the general strike and organize independent actions.

It is the main necessity… left parties have to dispute workers consciousness tyying to lead the struggles, not appearing only for making pressure over the bureaucratic leaders. March will be a significative month, because salaries negotiations. Macri wants to impose less than 15%, but most of the working class is against this goal. We think there will be strikes, demonstrations and riots all around the country with the working class in the center of the political situation.

In the next months we have the chance to defeat the government with a new “Argentinazo”, the riot of 2001 which defeated former president, De la Rua. But, the next will be better than the previous one, because working class is much stronger. At the end of the 90s there were millions of workers without jobs, as unoccupied ones.

In that period, “Peronismo” and bureaucratic trade union leaders were strong, using their power as a big tool of containment, supporting capitalism as the last option. Nowadays, this bureaucratic strata is weaker than ever in its history. Socialist parties have been never such powerful than present time.

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