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Days have passed since the Supreme Court issued its ruling ratifying CFK’s conviction, outlawing her candidacy and giving way to her upcoming arrest. Since then there are different positions on why all this is happening and what we have to do. There are debates about what Peronism is proposing, expressing its project and its march of political support to CFK. There are even different views within the left. We share our vision.
By: MST National Leadership in the Left Unity Front (FITU).
Reasons and actors of this ruling
When talking about the Supreme Court ruling we need to analyze it within the framework of political intentionality of the establishment, that is the most concentrated political and economic power of the AEA and the AmCham in alliance with a large media sector, powerful economic interests, bourgeois politicians, macrism, among others, who need to clear the horizon of any uncertainty and require that in the future, only sectors extremely similar to their current interests, integrate political options.
The acceleration on the Court’s ruling speaks for itself. It does not seek justice, much less attack corruption. It is a proscriptive and authoritarian ruling that responds to reactionary political interests. That is why we reject and repudiate it, at the same time we analyze it within a general political context.
This ruling is not an isolated event, it is a political decision. A new advance in an authoritarian orientation. The definition of a justice system that is addicted to power and part of the political regime. Since Milei’s inauguration, this regime has tried to curtail a whole series of social and democratic rights of the majorities, by means of anti-picketing protocols, executive orders, persecution of social fighters, a wage trap, abandonment of social assistance, attempts to restrict the right to strike, attacks on journalists, greater repression, lies and incitement to violence in social media, and other nefarious initiatives in progress. These are the real and main problems suffered by the majority of the population, plus the Court’s ruling.
PJ’s essence, role and responsibilities
Our general denunciation of this justice system, its proscriptive ruling and the most concentrated bourgeois political power, does not prevent us from being deeply critical of the PJ and the role of CFK herself. On the contrary, the ruling and everything that is happening reaffirm the need to question the whole political scaffolding of the capitalist regime, of which the PJ has been and is an essential part both when governing and as opposition. Peronism may be today, concentrated in the reference of Cristina, distanced from the economic objectives of part of that power. However, every time she governs, she answers to a considerable sector of those bourgeois interests, and in fact, during her last speeches prior to this ruling, she ratified her proposal as a replacement variant within the current regime, with moderate and more centrist positions. Seeking to provide reliability and accepting to debate issues that are on the agenda of the concentrated power, to discuss an efficient State, labor modernization and reform, in addition to stating hat they would pay the illegitimate debt with the IMF. Peronism seeks to dialogue, coexist and make pacts with a central power that actually comes for everything, instead of confronting it.
The honest intentionality of its working bases, to achieve social justice, economic independence and political sovereignty, have been thrown at an abyss of proposals of all PJ leaders, who do not propose anything aiming at an independent, sovereign or emancipating project. They propose some things that are certainly different from Milei’s far-right atrocities, but always within maintaining the capitalist status quo, as not to affect the great interests or take social measures of magnitude or deep and structural changes, without which there is no possibility of solving the social problems of the great impoverished and precarious majorities.
At the same time, the PJ, since Milei took office, has been in one way or another also responsible for what is happening. By not facing the libertarian project in a consistent way, neither inside nor outside the Parliament and, even worse, with its governors being central actors of pacts with the national government and facilitators of the advance of its project, with deputies and senators who respond to it by voting in favor of decisive laws in support of Milei. The PJ as a whole has been managed from the beginning with the logic of criticizing only, then talking about the need to defeat Milei only in the presidential elections of 2027. Therefore, the PJ is not promoting any course of action from its trade union and social base.
In the midst of all this harmful political strategy, the working population, the youth and the middle sectors, have to endure long years of brutal austerity, surrender, repression and steps towards a more authoritarian regime by the current government, which at the end of the road in terms of political rights, also ends up hitting CFK herself with this ruling of the Court.
For all these reasons and our confrontation with Milei since he took office, we express our repudiation of the court ruling and the proscription from a critical and independent position of CFK and the PJ, who are representatives of a bosses’ political project, defender of this decadent capitalist system. Because of these strategic differences, we have never given them political support before, nor do we give it now. We denounce this ruling entirely because we are consistent in the struggle for democratic rights. Throughout our history, inside and outside the country, we have defended the political rights of leaders with whom we have profound differences, when they have been banned, persecuted or imprisoned. And we do so because we also defend the right of their bases and supporters to be able to express themselves politically without being prevented from doing so by a partial and power-addicted justice system.
Why don’t we assist the Argentina for Cristina march?
From this position and in the midst of the reality we are living, there are also debates and conflicting positions as to what to do now. As can be seen, the PJ leaders as a whole are not in favor of the struggle against a whole plan and regime, but only for the political defense of the figure of CFK and the development of a mobilization under that sole objective, on Wednesday 18, with the slogan “Argentina with Cristina“. A very partial and closed mobilization in form and content, completely dissociated from the genuine central demands of the population and only focused on giving political support to Cristina.
The mobilization will not even be carried out to try to defeat the proscription or to demand his freedom, but rather, as its leader says, “toget into line” and from there to make pacts and negotiate in better conditions the possibility of a house arrest. In this way, it will not be a progressive mobilization, but one ordered by the political strategy of the PJ in search of new agreements and pacts, while it rethinks its electoral strategy without CFK as candidate.
That is why we will not participate in this mobilization. The reality of the country requires other political objectives and other types of measures of struggle. In the first place, precisely because we are in a more general process of attacks on social and democratic rights, the necessary plan of struggle and the character of the measures must be based on the most heartfelt demands of the working majority and the youth, if we really want them to be massive and forceful. In this sense, Wednesday’s call for action is biased and limited to those who politically support CFK, something that seems to us to be very wrong.
Our proposal for struggle is in-depth and responds to the comprehensiveness of the problems raised and suffered by the majorities. It is to promote the greatest massive unity in the streets, with general strikes and coordinated and progressive actions, first of all for decent wages, for pensions, for work, for Garrahan and public health, for science and education, in defense of our democratic rights and against proscription, and for the defeat of the whole project of Milei and his increasingly authoritarian regime. That is why we are and will be part of all unitary and genuine actions that unify these demands.
Debates on the left
On these important issues, common positions are developed, for example to denounce and repudiate this ruling of the Court, and there are also different positions within the Frente de Izquierda. For example, we consider mistaken the position of the comrades of the PTS that since the day of the ruling have been focusing all their policy and intervention on the need for a general strike against the ban, essentially ordered by that task, and not promoting an integral policy that prioritizes the workers’ and popular demands and needs and that unites it to the issue of the ban. In fact, they participated in a meeting at the headquarters of the PJ where they criticized that the march on the 18th be closed in support of CFK, but they also explained that they proposed: “a united and consistent struggle against the proscription, emphasizing the demand to the central unions to call for an active national strike and a plan of struggle”.
At times like these it is very important to manage without letting oneself be dragged along by pressures from other parties of the regime, but rather defining a consistent and deep-rooted policy. The comrades of the PTS have not been acting in this way. That is why they quickly decided to go to meet alone with CFK without any exchange on the matter in the FIT-U, while the leader of their youth publicized at the same time the call for unity to La Cámpora, thus crossing the threshold of their own political contradictions in a hurry. Let us remember that they have recently divided a massive March 24, with sectarian excuses and the falsehood that they could not march in common because that was to go after Peronism. A serious political mistake they made at that time, dividing a historical mobilization that in reality was of all the human rights organizations. Now, unfortunately, they are reinforcing that mistake, committing another one in the opposite direction, despairing and responding unilaterally, putting the focus on the proscription issue and not on proposing a plan of struggle and strikes that start with the set of workers’, popular and youth needs that exist to fight and mobilize.
The case of the Partido Obrero is equally or even more incoherent. They also come from having divided a unitary and massive March 24 with all the Human Rights organizations because according to them it was to be functional to Peronism, but now they announce their participation in a march under the only slogan “Argentina with Cristina“, which is giving her political support and an important political mistake on their part. Because those of us who repudiate the Court’s ruling and demand CFK’s freedom, can do so thoroughly without any need to run behind actions in the service of the PJ’s misguided political objectives, which are clearly different from those of the anti-capitalist and socialist left.
We also add that the comrades do not respond to another of the concerns of the working population as a whole, which is given by the disbelief and weariness with all the old parties, including the PJ. There are millions of honest workers and young people who see that there is corruption from the State throughout different governments up to the present one. However, neither the PTS and the PO give any importance to this question, nor do they propose how to make sure that everything is really investigated. In our case, the denunciation of the proscriptive ruling against CFK and her arrest, does not prevent us from continuing to say that corruption is a structural and evident scourge of all the capitalist governments, that the people deserve to know the truth about everything. And that is why we need an Independent Investigation Commission that will go all the way, in the face of denunciations against the governments of Peronism, Macrism and Milei. Unfortunately, the Frente de Izquierda (Left Front) has so far not promoted this proposal in common. We insist again on the importance of doing so.
Winning the streets and strengthening an alternative
To sum up, we once again express our repudiation of the Court’s decision and of the whole plan of the economic and media power and of the ultra-right-wingers who govern the country. We are in favor of the greatest struggle and unity of action in the streets, of the broadest united front that we can build, to defeat all this plan of adjustment and of taking away social and democratic rights. We are therefore for the promotion of all street actions that condense and coordinate the genuine claims of the entire population together with the denunciation of the proscription and the defense of democratic freedoms.
At the same time, at this time, respecting the political beliefs of other comrades, we do not believe that the solution is to lean again on the PJ and its project, not even in the midst of this proscription. Nor do we consider that the solution is to invent Broad Fronts for democracy, led by the same old ones and with center programs. Faced with the brutality of Milei’s project, in addition to a massive and consistent struggle, it is necessary to strengthen a new political alternative, with an anti-capitalist and socialist program, open to the participation of thousands of comrades.
The Left Front has the opportunity and responsibility, to get out of its current stage of being only a limited electoral front, and to dare to take serious and solid steps towards a great political call, to organize thousands and to postulate in the country, in the midst of this great crisis, a truly alternative voice for millions. From the MST as members of the Left Front, we invite thousands of comrades of the political and social left, the whole militancy of the FIT-U and workers and youth from the rank and file of Peronism, to debate in depth, democratically and in common on all these questions, in which the future of the country is at stake.
