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.
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