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Historic Days
Por Raymond -
Friday, Dec. 20, 2002 at 9:56 AM
webmaster@po.org.ar
Let us accompany the Federal March convened by the piquetero organizations in struggle massively. Let us gather the neighbors to march from each neighborhood. Everyone to the Plaza.
Historic days
Without last year's popular rebellion, Duhalde's government would never have come into power. However, for the government, the popular rebellion of December 19 and 20 was a tragedy.
It confesses in this way its character of usurper. It claims no title conferred upon it by the popular rebellion. It used it to its advantage to scrape into power with the vote of a Legislative Assembly repudiated by the mobilization of the masses that demanded "que se vayan todos - all of them have got to go." It used it to its advantage to consume the coup of the capitalists who benefited from the devaluation and the peso-ification that allowed them to liquidate their debts in dollars by 70%.
So, things are pretty clear.
The government does not wish any connection between its coming into power and the Argentinazo of one year ago, it has made a cult of the task of eliminating any idea of rupture with the regime and any revolutionary connotations to its administration.
If there is no rupture, there is continuity. With the coup of the capitalists who benefited from the devaluation and the peso-ification, the governing class is the same that looted the country and the workers under the military dictatorship, under Menem and under the Alianza.
With the popular rebellion of December 19 and 20, 2001, the Argentine people inaugurated a new stage. It claims as its own this historic day and a year later, marches from the five corners of the country and calls for a march on the Plaza de Mayo and all the plazas (main squares) with the slogans that sum up what has been experienced and the consciousness that has been attained: Que se vayan todos – All of them have got to go, Duhalde out now, For a new Argentinazo that completes the unfinished tasks of the last rebellion.
Meanwhile, the government bunkers down in the campaign of intimidation that attempts to block the tendency towards a great mobilization of the people, "days of peace and not violence" including a pilgrimage organized in complicity with the Church calling for "justice" that failed to sanction a single one of the crimes committed.
The people in mobilization not only pay homage to the popular feat that toppled the anti-working class and pro-imperialist government of the Alianza, but also march and call for mobilization in the understanding that a new historic stage has been opened and that it is necessary to act in order to carry out "que se vayan todos – all of them have got to go," changing the social content of the current regime that makes possible "bread and work for all." For this a unifying slogan is necessary that allows the people to confront power with its own alternative. A Constituent Assembly that governs and not at all a phony electoral plan for everything to go on the same. A Constituent [Assembly] in power.
December 19 and 20, in the historic Plaza and in the plazas all over the country, the people will reaffirm in one way or another the permanency and continuity of a strategy aimed at "que se vayan todos – all of them have got to go" and "let the workers govern."
Let us accompany the Federal March convened by the piquetero organizations in struggle massively. Let us gather the neighbors to march from each neighborhood. Everyone to the Plaza.
See croniques and photos of Federal March to Plaza de Mayo