Argentine left parties say:
'We don't want more of the same'
On Dec. 21, five socialist political parties in Argentina
issued a statement on the resignation of President Fernando De
la Rúa. The following are excerpts, translated by
Workers World.
The Argentine people and workers demolished the government
of De la Rúa and Cavallo in the streets. It is a
gigantic people's victory in the face of a crisis that involved
the freezing of salaries, the seizure of the people's savings
and the generalized bankruptcy of the public finances.
The De la Rúas and Cavallos, the Menems and Duhaldes,
the Ruckaufs, Puertas and Rodrigúez Saás are
responsible for the social catastrophe and for the social
disorganization that is destroying the very lives of millions
of Argentines.
The parties that control the Legislative Assembly are
equally responsible for this disaster. They have neither the
ability nor the authority to form a government.
This is what the people rose up against, winning the
streets, cutting off the highways, occupying work places,
marching to the very seats of power.
The Argentina of banking and big capital is bankrupt. It is
the final stage of a system of exploitation, of a social,
economic and political organization. Enough!
We declare that there is a way out, but that this way out is
incompatible with those that promote chaos for the benefit of
surrender, for finance capital, for monopoly capitalism,
national or foreign. This is the point. Neither dollarization
nor the devaluation promoted by ruling sectors will get us out
of this endless torment. They are variations of a new turn of
the screw aimed at the confiscation of our own labor.
They all have to go. We have to put an end not only to De la
Rúa-Cavallo, but also to Rodríguez Saá,
the parties that are looking for an agreement with the
plunderers of the IMF. They are the ones that have to pay for
the crisis: the bankers, the corporations of big capital, and
the privatizing monopolies that have taken over the state
patrimony.
It is necessary to nationalize banking, freeing all salaries
and deposits of the workers and even of the small producers and
merchants. The millions of dollars of funds of the big bosses,
with already $150 billion sent out of the country, must be
frozen. All the privatized services must be re-statized, and
the payments on the foreign debt must be stopped
immediately.
On this basis, it is necessary to reorganize the economy
under a national workers' plan and so put the paralyzed
production back into motion.
To do this, we need to allow the people to deliberate and
organize themselves amid the struggle. This is an unavoidable
prerequisite for restructuring a power that is rising up in the
face of the present power. Another Argentina: neither of the
Justicialist Party nor of the Alliance, nor of the failed
pseudo-progressives. The Argentina of the workers, the one that
will expropriate those that have always exploited us.
SIGNATORIES:
Workers' Party (PO)
United Left (Communist Party and Socialist Workers Movement
MST)
Revolutionary Socialist League (LSR)
Socialist Workers Front (FOS)
Reprinted from the Jan. 10, 2002, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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