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Global and Local Analysis & Action ... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 9:18 PM Subject: [kominform2] Argentina. Workers Controlled Factories Declaration From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Arg_Solid] Argentina: Workers Controlled Factories Declaration ARGENTINA: DECLARATION of the WORKERS CONTROLLED FACTORIES BRUKMAN, ZANON AND THE CERAMIC UNION Faced with any attempt of ouster and repression, we call for the defense of the occupations of factories and businesses. Our struggle is fraternal with all workers and people against unemployment, the high cost of living and the robbery by the bankers and government of our small savings. Business closings are multiplying. Employers and government cannot assure production and work. On the contrary, in January there were a thousand layoffs every day. In February it rose to two thousand a day. In March the figure is growing as already 65 thousand are in the street. Since the year began they have laid off one worker every minute! The International Monetary Fund in addition demands layoffs of state workers in the provinces. In Brukman Clothing in Buenos Aires, in Zanon Ceramics in Neuquen, in the metal facotry La Baskonia in La Matanza, in other facotries and businesses a new road is being tried: occupy the instalations so that there is not one more layoff. In Zanon and Brukman we call for the State to take over under workers control. But we are not waiting with our arms crossed for the State to take charge. The plants are functioning under workers control and our administration directly. In many other enterprises, companeros are trying to form workers cooperatives, when the employers walk away and empty out the factory. We exercise and defend the right of workers to take in their own hands the resolution of the social disaster of increasing unemployment. We should follow the example of the Neighborhood Assemblies that mobilized when the police attempted to oust the workers of Brukman: We formed a great solidarity network with the neighborhood assemblies and with the university and high school students. Everyone who participates in the event of April 13th is commited to going out in support of all the occupied factories: An attack at one is an attack at all. In our own defense and to extend our example to all those who want to rsist clsures and layoffs, we are calling a Plenary or National Council to coordinate the different enterprises where the workers have taken over their workplace and are under workers control. We do not only want to maintain existing jobs, we want work for everyone. There are more than three million companeros unemployed. The 150 pesos and the "social plans" of Duhalde and his advisers are no solution because it does not cover basic necessities and less than half the unemployed will be covered. We fight for the unity of employed and unemployed. That is why we participated in the Piquetero Assemblies of Matanza and the National Assembly in Plaza de Mayo sharing our struggle with the Bloque Piquetero Nacional. In Neuquen, the ceramic workers of Zanon and its union SOECN work side by side with the Movement of Unemployed Workers (MTD). Together we demand genuine work with a plan of public works controlled by workers, for schools to be built which students and teachers need. for public hosptials and homes which the workers and people demand. The workers of Brukman who put to work their plant believe believe that our production would have more social meaning is we were sewing hospital sheets of which there is shortage and school clothing for the children of our people. We call for the movements of unemployed to fight for a program of genuine work and to not participate in the Consultative Councils of the government and the political henchmen. We fight to put into practice regional coordinating meetings between employed, unemployed, neighborhood asemblies, and a new Natioal Assembly of Workers and Piqueteros, with delegates elected in rank and file meetings at the workplace and neighborhoods, with a mandate to plan for a national struggle for bread and work for everyone. With the brutal rise in prices the wages of 8 million workers has been reduced. The leaders of the trade union federations do not support our struggle against layoffs and closings. They leave the workers in the hands of the "social plans" of Duahlde. Besides, they are allowing a scandelous robbery to our wages and pensions without calling for a minimal struggle. How much time do these leaders need to break the truce and their support to this government of hunger? How can we as workers get the great trade unions on our side? We address all those who work in industry and public services that can paralyze the country just as in the stoppogas against Dela Rua. The example of direct democracy in the neighborhood assemblies should begin to be practiced in each workplace. We need workers assemblies that force the unions to break their truce with the government and at the same time put in new leaders to head our organizations because we have to face a strong battle for wage indexing, employment and pensions which are in accord with the cost of basic items. We support all struggles, of the Grafico, of Postal Employees, of railroad workers of La Fraternidad and the dirvers of UTA in defense of their jobs and salaries. But we do not agreet with the tops of those unions who do not make clear that is necessary to oppose an increase in ticket fares in the buses and trains which is what the bosses want. Workers cannot raise our wages at the cost of increasing the cost of living of the people, with increases in prices of busses, telephone, light and gas which the privitized companies want to do. Various Neighboorhood Assemblies have been having protests in front of Edesur and Metrogas against price increases and in front of supermakrets demanding that prices be put bakc to the levels of December. Or the bakers of Neuquen and Cipoletti who demand that "lower the price of flower and don{t raise the price of bread." The crisis should be paid for by the great financiers and economic groups who caused it. We need a new national struggle, a general strike of all the trade unions, including cutting off the roads which the unemployed do, and the cacerolazos of the Peoples Assemblies to defeat Duhalde and the IMF, and impose an emergency plan that deals with the peoples demand for bread and work. BUENOS AIRES APRIL 13 translated by Earl Gilman _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/ySSFAA/VL0olB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Peruuta ryhm�n tilaus l�hett�m�ll� s�hk�postia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! 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