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February 2nd, 2025. 

The President’s public crypto-scam scandal, in which he promoted a heist of tens of thousands of people, is the last straw. What else can we bear added to everything he has already done? He is not a president, he is a gambler at the head of a gang of criminals who are filling the void produced by the wreckage Peronism left behind after governing. Milei applies austerity measures and scams, Karina receives bribes, Caputo makes up figures while giving away all our reserves in gold and dollars and Bullrich is in charge of repression. Saying that this is wrong falls short. 

Favorable wind: let’s build a huge mobilization across the country on March 24 

The libertarians ended 2024 and started 2025 with arrogance and boldness: they believed that they could do as they pleased. Fair enough, since despite not having enough deputies or senators, in the den of thieves -the Congress- they get enough votes for anything. And regarding the streets, the CGT and the CTA provide him with social stability. The government got excited. They had a free pass to commit any atrocity. The reactionary speech in Davos against the LGBTIQ+ community unleashed a national anti-fascist mobilization of more than a million people. A major setback to the government’s reactionary agenda. In addition to that mobilization, macro-economic problems also emerged, even Cavallo called it out. Inflation is rising again this month and the dollar value is gradually rising under devaluation pressure as well. Plus, life conditions and the social unrest of thousands whose salaries aren’t enough to get through half a month is expressed in workers’ and popular struggles against layoffs, for decent wages, for public health and education, for social assistance and against the privatization of Banco Nación and the Río Turbio Deposits, against fires and state abandonment, among other struggles and demands that are taking place. 

That’s why the scam scandal triggered a lot of anger added to that explosive combination. There is a change of pace in workplaces, neighborhoods, youth and in general: social unrest is accumulating significantly and could unfold in the streets with a lot of strength. We will see how the coming months turn out. As far as it goes, The 8th of March will certainly be a considerable national expression of that social unrest, which will condense hundreds of partial claims behind the confrontation against the dictatorship-denier, repressive and scamming government.

The “forces of heaven” are having a rough time: we have to expose them all

Milei and his gang tried to flee from both their political crisis and the worst week they ever went through since they took office. They spent several days in the United States trying and failing to change the focus of national debate. They were crawling around begging for political support and, more importantly, asked the IMF for a lot of money. They got together with their peers at the Summit of the Conservative Political Action Conference, a summit of far-right supporters and scammers commanded by Trump. We will see what happens after so many pictures and how all of this unfolds with more demands for structural changes, more austerity and no money on sight so far. 

When Milei returned to the country, he came across harsh scenery, which included being charged by the judiciary system. There’s evidence that can prove his direct relationship with the scam plus the collecting and bribery role of his sister “the boss”. This is the way things are in the country where supposedly it is said to confront the castes. The crisis is so severe that even a justice elected by the political power is obliged in one way or another to advance at least partially with the investigation. And even the media, which had been playing Milei’s direct friends, now broadcast daily criticisms that hinder the government’s plans to get out of this lock-up into which he entered due to his own disasters. Of course, if there were an Independent Investigative Commission, much more progress could be made and all fraudsters could be thoroughly punished. But even without that, in the current context of formal investigation of justice, nothing good seems to be coming for the government.

All accomplices of the fraudster: the Congress takes care of him, the PJ and the trade union centrals are useless.

Milei can’t take another minute. Now he swindles in the sight of the world and Congress saves him, shields him. It even became clear that friendly journalism is “ensobrado”! But of course, the only way that any positive measure for the people will come out of Congress is with millions on the streets, all over the country. They are all chaste and take care of each other, they think about the next election, about continuing between privileges and political business. That’s why, to defeat Milei and her whole project, our privileged place is the street. Of course we are in favor of promoting a political trial and his impeachment, only unfortunately this Congress of accomplices is not going to guarantee that process. That is why the priority is to encourage the only path that can guarantee to put Milei on the ropes: that we are millions of workers and young people guaranteeing a great national mobilization and all that is necessary to defeat him. 

That is what the leadership of Peronism does not do, which proposes a political trial but does not lift a finger to mobilize its bases with everything, which would be the only real way to put pressure on Congress for that goal. While his trade union leader of the CGT directly transacts with the government and meets for hugs with the head of the IMF. To call them traitors is not enough. These supposed leaders full of privileges must be passed over and encouraged to build a new, democratic and combative trade union center.

Self-convoke to kick it out and decide from below

What if we call ourselves from below? In fact, there is no other option left if we want to win and remove Milei and his entire government. Because besides, if we manage to put an end to this ultra-right government, the solution and a dignified future will not come from the parties that have already governed or from this doughnut Congress that has been endorsing Milei’s entire plan. 

We have to get the people to decide everything, to decide as workers, students, social movements, socio-environmental, human rights and gender and diversity fighters. Everything was decided well from below, recovering the assembly tradition of 2001 that reappears in the face of every crisis as a response to institutional rot. Neighborhood assemblies, workers’ and student assemblies, assembly and coordination. Why not? Some may think that here we have to look for a variant such as an Assembly or Constituent Process, knowing that it has its limits if it is not with full democracy to elect representatives, free to deal with all the refoundational issues of the country and sovereign to decide on everything. In Chile, after such a rebellion, as the Constituent Assembly was agreed from above by the caste (including the “renovator Boric”), it was frustrating. That is why, without ruling anything out, we always have to give priority to our assemblies and coordination from below. 

Let the workers and the left govern

The traditional party system in Argentina is broken. The Judiciary, the Congress, the bureaucratic union leadership, everything, everything has a rotten smell. Milei is the bizarre emergent of that context, because the so-called progressivism squandered a unique opportunity for 20 years. Are we going to fall into the same thing again?. Let’s learn. The truth is that the only ones who never really govern are the left and the workers. Isn’t it time to prepare that path? And to argue that the business of financial speculation, of banks, crypto-scams and everything is over: to ban these scams, to nationalize private banks and that the IMF goes to hell, because the priority debt is the internal one. With these resources, we could inject the national economy of the working people: increase salaries, pensions and generate real (not virtual) work with a massive public works plan. Is it not coherent? But also, to annul everything that the delusional de Milei did and everything that menemism and progressivism left untouched: public services are social rights, therefore, we must nationalize but with mixed control of workers and users, so that it works well without corruption. Good riddance to parasitic entrepreneurs! And against inflation, maximum prices and real penalties to the remarketers. And to work for everyone, to reduce the working day with a salary equal to the family basket: why don’t the Techint, the Rocca, the Ratazzi, the Galperín adjust? Doing all this does make sense.

And to make more progress: to end the economic plunder and environmental disaster, urgently. Banning mega-mining, fracking and agribusiness: complete industrial reconversion. And of course: more knowledge, more science and technology, free of capitalist corporations, without that distortive interference, but with results to improve the lives of the people, of the people, of those below. What if we face a comprehensive political reform? What if elective offices are revocable? What if they earn the same as a worker and also by social ethics law they and their families have to use the public like any neighbor’s chind to make more progress: to end the economic plunder and environmental dible.

But of course, for all this, the mobilized people are needed and at the same time to build a strong anti-capitalist and socialist left project with a vocation for power to transform everything that needs to be transformed. That is why we insist that the Left Front that we integrate and value, and that really has an alternative fund program, has to overcome all its electoral limitations and once and for all get ready to convene thousands of disappointed workers and youth and social referents and allied organizations that sympathize with our front, to a great Congress, Conference or Open Plenary of the FIT-U, in order to strengthen our weight and political action and give daily organization to thousands in every political and social struggle, there will also be a serious dispute in the upcoming elections.

Milei is an ultra-reactionary project. To him and his current, which is worldwide with Trump at the head, it is not enough to throw him out: it is necessary to overcome him forever with a real revolution that changes everything necessary to ensure elementary rights. Without fraudsters, with the people deciding and with a government of those of us who never govern to turn everything around. 

Milei, the scam is you

Take over the streets until he leaves

Let the people decide everything from below, democratically

For a government of those of us who never governed: the workers and the left

National Leadership of the MST in the Left Unity Front

February 25, 2025