By Sergio García
The congressional approval of the agreement between the government and the IMF, with the favorable vote of the Together for Change (JxC) opposition, fueled strong debates and, in particular, a political crisis of magnitude within the Front of All (FdeT) governing coalition that is dividing and weakening in its internal disputes.
Behind these debates, what is at stake is the future of the country. So, the real and profound discussion is about what project is needed to get Argentina out of the strong economic, political and social crisis we are in. A crisis that the agreement with the Fund compounded, adding a strong reduction of sovereignty that has been endorsed by the parties of the regime.
The first months of this year revealed to millions the incapacity of the ruling coalition and the hypocrisy of the right-wing opposition that sank the country during the previous Macri Administration. In the face of social discontent and the lack of credibility in the regime’s parties, nefarious characters like Milei and the libertarians also appear. They intend to present themselves as something new, with old recipes that have already applied by Menem and Cavallo. They want to dollarize the economy, which means liquefying wages and sumbitting the country even more; they also want to prohibit social protests, which of course they will not achieve.
From those who governed before (JxC), those who govern now (FdeT) and these liber-fascists, no solution to the serious social problems that affect us will come. Because in one way or another, all of them have a national project in which the big corporations rule. They do not have the same plan, there are obvious differences between Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner, and between sectors of JxC and Milei. But just as they have differences, they agree on maintaining the essence of this decadent and unequal capitalist system that is responsible for all our ills.
We have been involved in the struggle against the government’s agreement with the IMF from December to today. Making it clear from a unitary coordination convened and articulated by the Left Front Unity (FITU), that we are the only alternative political voice in the country, the one that mobilized thousands against the Fund and the austerity agreement voted by the FdeT and JxC.
With the same strength we are now already fighting against the consequences and the implementation of the agreement, supporting each working class and youth struggle, filling Plaza de Mayo on March 24, accompanying the piquetero camp these days, promoting socio-environmental struggles, among others processes. We will continue to fight at the forefront of every struggle and supporting and coordinating from below to help them win.
With the FITU, for the big fight
Now what we need is to out forth a great anti-capitalist and socialist alternative with a political, social and economic proposal. Only from the left, and in particular from the Left Front Unity, can we strongly promote such a proposal with an alternative plan to turn everything around. To propose that all our resources and wealth be made available to solve social needs, breaking with the Fund and not paying that scam that is the illegal and illegitimate foreign debt. Paying the IMF with money from the big tax evaders as Kirchnerism proposes is no real solution. Those millions of evaded dollars have to return to the country to be used for decent employment plans and in health and public education. Scams should not be paid; it is useless to take from the evaders and give those millions to the Fund´s scammers who promoted the capital flight in the first place.
We cannot lose sight of the fact that the country is going through a national political debate. For this reason, we propose to organize a great political campaign of the entire Left Front Unity, to promote our political and programmatic proposals all across the country.
We have to make the greatest efforts to get millions to know our basic proposals and to be able to take a leap as a political alternative for the working class and the poor. Our struggle is for the workers to govern, and to that end we have to become a viable alternative for power for millions.
In this sense, we propose to launch, starting in April, a campaign of rallies and events throughout the country, with the presence of the main national figures of the Left Front Unity.
For May 1st, the international day of workers´ struggle, the FITU should lead and convene massive events in Plaza de Mayo or another important place to be agreed on, and likewise in all the provinces of the country. With a strong diffusion leading up to the date, to showcase a great political appearance of all our proposals and to support the ongoing struggles here and around the world.
We must accompany these initiatives with a strong display of common proposals of the FITU in the street and on social networks, through all kinds of printed and digital tools to reach millions of workers and young people. We should organize common days of dissemination tables throughout the country, visits to workplaces and schools, among other possible initiatives.
In the sense of advancing in the need for our front to play a leading and convening role, promoting forums and discussions events on national issues such as the debt and the IMF, inflation and poverty, the right to social protest, among others, together with figures from the social left, intellectuals, specialists and sectors related to our front, with whom we have to maintain common activities, for the thousands of sympathizers and independent activists who expect and need to see the FITU promoting greater unity and coordination, around our program, and with the aim of building a stronger social and political influence, in the dispute against all the parties of the system.
And of course, along with the political action of a front that needs to be much more than an electoral vehicle, we must advance in the coordination from the FITU of common policies in support of the ongoing social struggles, of unitary policies against the bureaucracy in each union and in the coordination of the struggles of the employed, unemployed and young workers. Maintaining spaces for articulation with sectors that, without being in our front, really want to promote unity of action in the struggles.
In summary, in the face of the crisis in the country and the political disputes between the forces of the capitalist regime, let´s do everything in our power for the Left Front Unity to be much more visible in the political struggle and thoroughly prepare to dispute in all fields of the political and social struggle.
