[Via... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Downwithcapitalism <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 1:19 AM Subject: [downwithcapitalism] Class struggle in Argentina Agence France Presse. 8 June 2001. Workers' strike against Argentine economy turns violent. BUENOS AIRES -- Rocks and explosives were used Friday against companies and vehicles, as two trade unions led a 24-hour general strike opposing the Argentine government's economic policy. The radical CCC union organized pickets outside the capital, as columns of activists marched through streets in downtown Buenos Aires carrying red flags and the Argentine blue-and-white tri-stripe. "This was an overwhelming strike," said radical leader of the CGT union Hugo Moyano, who has also declared a boycott of Spanish companies located here in relation to a failure by a Spanish group to pay workers of its majority-owned subsidiary Aerolineas Argentinas. Unidentified activists early Friday detonated a small bomb in the Spanish-capital telecommunications company Telefonica, and another in a kindergarten in the western province Mendoza, causing material damage but no injuries, police said. The sixth general strike in 18 months against President Fernando de la Rua's government overturned a truce that had prevailed between unionists and the government since maverick Domingo Cavallo became Argentina's latest Economy Minister. Hundreds of unemployed people blocked roads and bridges in the busiest areas of Buenos Aires and the provincial capitals, while bus drivers, and state-employed officials and justice workers, as well as teachers, adhered to the strike. Leftist protesters focused the attention of their protests on oil company Repsol-YPF and Aerolineas Argentinas offices, both of Spanish capital. Spain has invested some 40 billion dollars in Argentina since 1990. Argentina is currently in its third year of recession. * * * * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
