Reuters (with additional material by AP and AFP). 25 and 26 January 2002. Thousands of Argentines Protest Over Cash Crisis.
BUENOS AIRES - Tens of thousands of Argentines, from middle class businessmen to the unemployed, took to streets on Friday to bang pots and pans in the biggest protest yet against a new government struggling to end a massive financial crisis. Karl: The masses can go on strike as much as they like, bang billie cans or whatever. It is no substitute for class politics. While the working class remain tied to reformist philosophy their struggle will inevitably head towards defeat --as has repeatedly happened in the past. Where is there to go? Capitalism cannot deliver. Capitalism in Argentina cannot reform conditions in such a way as to improve living standards and conditions for workers and sections of the middle class. The only solution is the abolition of capitalism and its replacement with communism. This is the line that communists must take concerning the mass popular mobilisation in Argentina. Otherwise the mobilisation will merely mean sustained instability entailing, more pain and bloodshed for workers or an extreme right wing crackdown. The only alternative for workers is communism. The petty bourgeois radicals that suggest otherwise are left counter-revolutionaries whose bourgeois role it is to disarm the working class from the right. Regards Karl Carlile (Communist Global Group) Be free to join our communism mailing list at http://homepage.eircom.net/~kampf/
