>From: "Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED], >A fever of road blocks has gained Argentina. Road blocks are the only >measure of economic struggle with effective interest in a country >where IMF- and US-fueled industrial devastation has left very little >productive activity. Blocking the transportation lines, effected by >unemployed, equates, somehow, with industrial strikes by active >workers. > >One of the last road blocks took place last week near Tartagal, core >town of an area in the province of Salta laid waste and in >desperation by privatization of our former National Oilfields (YPF), >privatization (and reduction in size) of the steel industry, crisis >in the sugar cane sector, widespread mechanization of labor in >foreign-owned estates producing for the foreign markets (under >official subsidies, which have in turn been cut off due to financial >restrictions generated by foreign debt payments), and agricultural >recession in non-exporting crops. This road block, which repeats >similar ones produced less than a year ago, has derived in a terrible >consequence: one man dead due to repression. > >The murder gave way to a wave of popular rage that burnt most of the >central district of Tartagal to the ground, and to negotiations >between the national government and the protestors who, in their >fury, had taken hostages of six (later on four) military policemen of >the Gendarmer�a (Army units originally devised to survey the >frontiers, now turned into stormtroopers against the Argentinian >people). > >At the same time, the IMF graciously conceded Argentina a u$s 10 >billion loan to help the financial elite overcome the results of 25 >years of plunder and destruction. In fact, this loan (the conditions >for which have implied new restrictions in popular consumption, >reactionary measures as regards the retirement systems, a further >restriction in spending by the provinces, and so on) is just a means >to gap the next two or three months. The forecast is that most >probably by March Argentina will be devaluating or taking similar >measures, after the speculators have taken all "their" money out of >the country. > >The announcements by the government were made at a meeting of >financial executives, thus giving the clearest signal to the society. > >Class war is beginning here, or so it seems. > >The CGT of Moyano, the CTA and the CCC (three groups of rebel >unionists, where the CTA had split due to petty organizative and >political considerations) have joined in their rejection of this new >murder. Immediately upon the news were known of what had happened in >Tartagal, the head of the Public Transit union (and one of the main >heads of the MTA that gives its sense to the CGT of Moyano) called >for an immediate strike which froze public transportation in downtown >Buenos Aires at rush hour of Friday evening. And a meeting of the >Central Confederal Committee of the CGT has been called for tomorrow >Monday with a simultaneous call to the Regional CGTs. A national >strike will be the most obvious result of this meeting, and I dare >say that this strike will freeze the whole country. > >In struggle, > > > >N�stor Miguel Gorojovsky >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >_______________________________________________ >Leninist-International mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To change your options or unsubscribe go to: >http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
