From: "Jari-Pekka Raitamaa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:43:34 +0300 To: "Teemu Luojola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [luokkataistelu] Fw: Argentine Government campaign against Democracia Obrera for refusing to betray the Piqueteros of the North of Salta > Comrades, > An ominous development is taking place. > The government has started a campaign against us, against Democracia > Obrera, implying that we are a guerrilla group. Many of our phones > have been cut off and we are being watched by the services. > > Below is a list of links to Argentine and Salta Province newspaper > articles which name our organization (as well as others) as > responsable for being "inflistrated" sharpshooters in Salta and > causing the 24 casualties among the Gendarmes, and also as being > responsable for firebombing a bank during the march this last Friday, > in which our column participated. > > All of this, of course, is part of the government's bonapartist plan > of repression, whose main objective is the liquidation of the > collective bargaining agreements in the Argentine working class, and > the inflicting of a historic defeat on the working class, against > which the struggle in Salta and the Aerolineas strike are the main > opposition. Since we are the only leftist group who has not sworn > loyalty to bourgeois democracy (newsconference I mentioned in my last > reports), they are making the pressure fall on us hard and fast, also > hoping we will give in, swear loyalty to bourgois democracy. > > What follows is the rough text (faxed from Salta, read to me over the > phone; it's been signed by Piquete and Pepino, by members of the > Partido Obrero in Mosconi, (unfortunately not by Jorge Altimira, whose > legislative immunity and resources should be in the town square of > Mosconi at the disposition of the working class and people of Mosconi) > by our comrades in Mosconi, and by 50 members of the vanguard, I will > get the complete text in a few hours with a list of the signees) of a > declaration against this maneouvre of the government: > ================================================ > urgently post EVERYWHERE what follows: > ================================================ > DECLARACION de la Liga Obrera Internacionalista (Cuarta Internacional) > [LOI-CI], > Democracia Obrera, > P�ginas de los Piqueteros del Norte de Salta > > 24 de junio de 2001 > > In accordance with reports of the SIDE (government intelligence) which > appeared in national and provincial newspapers to the effect that > there are "ultraleft groups infiltrating" the piqueteros of North > Salta, and which caused firebombing of banks during last Friday's > demonstration in Buenos Aires, mentioning various organizations, > including Democracia Obrera, we answer as follows: > > The only infiltrated terrorists in the North of Salta, the only > "infiltrated sharpshooters" are the Gendarmes, who are shooting on > workers and the picket of General Mosconi. > We are proud to stand with the heroic piqueteros of the North of > Salta, to be among the workers forming the picket in General Mosconi. > We are also proud to have promoted the formation of the Commission > against repression in Salta together with Hebe de Bonafini and the > Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, and of having headed up the trip to Mosconi > the day the picket was destroyed together with Hebe de Bonafini, no in > order to mediate or negotiate, but rather to pass over to the side of > the heroic piqueteros of the North of Salta. > > Democracia Obrera is a working class organization. Our methods of > struggle are those of the working class: the movilization, the strike > and the picket. We reject the interpretation of the intelligence > services and the trade union bureaucracy to the effect that history is > made by infiltrated groups. As Marxist-Leninists and revolutionary > Trotskyists we hold that history is the history of the class struggle. > > We denounce the current attack on working class organizations and on > the picket in Mosconi as part of the plan of repression against the > workers and against the people. > > We hold the national and provincial government and the trade union > bureaucracy responsible for the well-being and physical integrity of > our comrades, and of those of the other organizations alluded to. > > written and signed in Mosconi by over 50 piqueteros so far, and by > members of Democracia Obrera and other organiations (list to follow) > > Argentine national and provincial newspaper links showing government > smear campaign against Democracia Obrera and other working class > organizations: > > LA NACION > > http://www.lanacion.com.ar/01/06/22/dp_314463.asp > Finaliz� con incidentes la marcha piquetera > (menciona a PO y "PST") > > http://www.lanacion.com.ar/01/06/23/dp_314769.asp > Aspera pol�mica por los incidentes de la marcha de anteayer > (menciona al "nuevo grupo DO" y "PST") > > http://www.lanacion.com.ar/01/06/23/dp_314732.asp > Para Interior, hay guerrilla urbana > > http://www.lanacion.com.ar/01/06/24/dp_314968.asp > grupos de "acci�n pol�tica que se montan..." > > EL TRIBUNO DE SALTA > > http://tribuno.salnet.com.ar/anteriores/2001/JUN/24/default.htm > primera plana informe de la SIDE > http://tribuno.salnet.com.ar/anteriores/2001/JUN/24/nac1.htm > articulo informe "110 focos de conflicto" > > > CLARIN > > http://ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-06-24/p-00315.htm > Clar�n > Francotiradores: qui�nes est�n detr�s de las muertes en general > Mosconi > (Menciona a "DO" como grupo de accion politica que la SIDE dijo que > mandara gente desde Capital Federal a Salta) > > PAGINA/12 > http://www.pagina12.com.ar/2001/01-06/01-06-23/pag04.htm > La CTA los llama servicios, el Gobierno, guerrilleros > > > http://ar.clarin.com/diario/hoy/p-00315.htm > El presidente Fernando de la R�a dio su respaldo ayer a la pol�mica > gesti�n personal realizada en Salta por el ministro de Desarrollo > Social, Juan Pablo Cafiero. > =================================================== > > Vicente Balvanera > for Democracia Obrera > for Paginas Piqueteras del Norte de Salta > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kaikkien maiden proletaarit, liittyk�� yhteen! http://www.marxistworker.org/fi -- Marxilainen Ty�v�enliitto. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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