>From: "Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>The general strike in Argentina has been a complete success, from any
>point of view. Activity was reduced to almost nil in the whole range
>of industrial and commercial activities (save for some small
>businesses). There was not a bus nor a truck on the streets for the
>whole day, and the scabs of higher middle class who went to their
>jobs downtown this morning (on who I gave info already) are returning
>back, earlier than they expected, to their homes in the outskirts of
>Buenos Aires.
>
>There has been a press meeting by the CGT of Moyano (the leader of
>the "official" CGT, which also called for a strike, Rodolfo Daer,
>issued a declaration in an environment of empty solitude), where the
>main leaders of the combative union answered, very calmly and with
>great political vision, the semi-harassing questions from the media.
>While the official line was that there had been pressure on people to
>force them not to go to work (there have been some bolts thrown at
>scab buses at certain towns), the simple answer by Moyano was that
>the systematic violence from above far outreached these minor acts,
>which of course the CGT condemned.
>
>But the main thing was that Moyano expressed, in the calm way of
>someone who knows that is proposing a serious issue, the support to
>the government against the pressures from the financial oligarchy.
>The whole discourse ran along the line "This is a legitimate
>government that we workers obviously accept as such. But this
>government is yielding to the interests of foreign capital and great
>local capital, thus depriving itself of legitimacy. If they need the
>support of workers to head into a new age, they will count on that
>support. It is the same support that froze Argentina today".
>
>Thus, the CGT proposes to debate a new economic plan. Moyano even
>gave some advice to the President: "Mr. President, now that you are
>going to Washington, use our strike to inform people there that we
>Argentinians will not stand a single structural adjustment more".
>
>This is high politics, high class politics indeed. The working class,
>through its union leaders, is speaking to other classes. What is
>class politics if not this? Moyano is Gramscian, unknowingly but
>Gramscian.
>
>At the same time, there have been clashes between the Police and
>people in Cruz del Eje, a bust town in the C�rdoba hills that
>sometime in the past was an industrial center linked to the state
>railroads, and a cotton growing area, which was destroyed by the
>curency rate politics and the disappearance of railroads. Today, 2
>500 people (that is more than one in ten dwellers of Cruz del Eje)
>are face to face with the Provincial Police. The Province of C�rdoba
>is in the hands of a Peronist, De la Sota, who of course sided with
>De la R�a in opposing the strike.
>
>In Neuqu�n, in the meanwhile, dramatic events took place. Some days
>ago, the roof of an undermantained school fell down and injured a
>teacher. Today, while people in Neuqu�n were demonstrating for the
>strike, the teacher died, and people ran in rage to the house of the
>Provincial Minister of Education, and stormed it with stones and
>sticks. Then, they went straight to the Neuqu�n offices of the
>imperialist Spanish company Repsol, which has swallowed our national
>oil company YPF (recently, I sent some posting showing the ways in
>which Repsol uses revenues from Argentina in order to give
>opportunities to people in Spain). The offices were attacked by the
>enraged protestors, who tried to put the whole building aflame.
>
>A pity, they did not succeed.
>
>But, if there is some Spanish Marxist on these lists, I would suggest
>them get ready to defend the Argentinians who will begin attacking
>Spanish imperialist property here. We shall put you to a dire proof,
>comrades!
>
>A hug,
>
>
>
>N�stor Miguel Gorojovsky
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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