Argentina: General strike for Wednesday March 21st 2001

After the economic measures were announced by Minister López Murphy, the whole rainbow of union centrals called for a general strike with mobilization for Wednesday 21st, which will be accompanied by massive actions in every town and city of Argentina. A wave of occupations of Universities by the students has already taken place (one third of the "savings" of 2 billion dollars have been extracted from the budget of the massive State Universities, under the accusation that they are the "privileged" ones in this country!)

The plan is so reactionary that not even the members of Parliament of the Justicialista Party (former Peronists), nor the FREPASO which is still part of the ruling Alliance can swallow it. The Justicialista blocs both in the Senate and the House of representatives have already rejected the plan. Three Ministers (one of them member of the Radical party) resigned upon knowledge of the Plan.

Since the President and the IMF knew that these measures would not be enforced by the Parliament, they resorted to a decree. But the decree must be accepted by Parliament in order to last. This is unlikely, unless a huge amount of money traverses the Houses as bribery.

The MTA leader, Hugo Moyano, announced the decission of the rebel CGT to wage battle against the "antipatria" (homeland sellers, in our political slang) wherever necessary, and called to a strike for Wednesday next. The CTA leader, Víctor de Gennaro, has denounced the "coup d'état" by the same financial sectors that supported the coup of 1976. He also warned that democracy itself is at stake, since this Minister has already explained to the commanders of the Armed Forces (while he was Minister of Defence) that "the social problem is a problem of national security", a few months ago.

The fact that this team of antinational, proIMF economists, takes power a few days before the anniversary of the March 24th, 1976, coup makes the move twice as outrageous and meaningful.

Turmoil ahead. Maybe Argentina will be the place where the chain of imperialism breaks first.

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Now, good bye: I am leaving to attend some preparatory meetings.