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Greg asks:"Good article, from a French anarchist to a Argentine communist. what'snot to like?" Boy, is that the right question at the right time about the “right” Argentine communism… What’s not to like? Well, for starters, yesterday a militant from the Partido Obrero of Argentina, Mariano Ferreyra, 23, has been murdered in an incident where there was a “scuffle” (i.e. a hunt) by the railroad union and the Juventud Peronista led by Hugo Moyano’s –the secretary general of the CGT- son. A mobilization by the FAAAAR left communist parties was set in order to support the railroad workers who had been fired and remain without secure contracts (“tercerizados”) and have been putting up a struggle for months. That this operation is linked to the whole ex-Duhaldist now Kirchnerist (you mean Kirchnerist as in Kirchner? The anti-imperialist couple who call for meetings of the anti-imperialist Unasur who facilitate anti-imperialist bases in Colombia? My my …) mafia is pretty much beyond doubt since the son of the transportation secretary had the good obscene sense of showing up with sheriff at the festivities. What’s not to like is that this comes as a signal of more of the same Peronist, or whatever you wanna call it, shit of making the workers war with themselves under the false hope for “popular national solutions” while in the meantime they keep selling out, in this case, the pension funds of retired people. As an inverted image of the wonderful protests in France, which the national socialist left (I’m not making the name up, this is how they prefer to call themselves) welcomes since Sarkozy is a bad bad neoliberal bourgeois as opposed to……, what we have in Argentina is a fight by the real defenders of the nation who kill the far left crazies so that the patriotic government can choose how best to sell the pensions, among other things, while they celebrate (and I’m not saying they are wrong to celebrate, it’s just a little vomitive when it comes from them) the French protests and pretend they’re all with French workers while they throw racist epithets against the piqueteros. Not blaming Gorojovsky here btw, just reporting what a post on his list says in CAPITAL letters. Moyano (look at me criticizing the revolutionary leader of the CGT who sent a letter of support for Correa, who has been in the CGT for decades, decades, like the decade of the 70’s, the decade where the CGT informed the dictatorship about crazy leftists and workers, see this guy is a true fighter against those who “objectively help our murderers”) has been doing everything in his power to break the struggles of the last years. That this occurred is “almost” ominous, but it comes when the Kirchner’s are feeling the pain of not having what to give to international credit institutions, except for those pension funds, which they claim they cannot give any of it back to retired people who live below poverty levels because…because that would empty out the state funds which must…which must be used to warrant new succulent loans. Sorry if this is a bit depressive, but while Dan’s reports provide us with elation, I cannot fail to denounce (big word here) the two-faced expressions, the 3rd wordlist pseudo-critical pessimism, which all too often permeate this list... Just as in France and as in Argentina, though, it is the workers who show these supposed “real political”, “real concrete”, theories for what they are… ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
