A-Infos (en) Argentina, FORA, Organizacion-Obrera #101: ANALYSIS, IT SEEMS LIKE WE WERE THE PRIVILEGED - J.C. VARIOUS JOBS NORTH AREA (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The electoral process and the assumption of the presidency by the 
political force led by Javier Milei has put Argentine society in a state 
of disorientation due to the frenetic pace of the changes produced. ---- 
The conquest of the Executive Branch by a party with little experience, 
with an improvised political structure, and making itself known to the 
public through various crazy slogans, still continues to surprise a 
large part of the local population and foreign analysts. ---- The 
attraction caused by the triumphant sector was anchored in a clear 
premise. Stop the economic imbalance that has been producing a large 
inflationary process in Argentina for years. The solutions provided are 
nothing more than orthodox measures to reduce public spending and 
liberalize the economy on all fronts. But to this recipe, with a classic 
liberal profile, they added a somewhat innovative seasoning to the 
public debate. The criticism of the "political caste" as a parasitic 
social sector that, in order to maintain its privileges, impoverishes 
the entire population through public spending.

The search for a scapegoat is a very useful political tool to distance 
oneself from the problem and differentiate oneself from its creators. 
For this reason, this new right-wing force used the discredit that the 
local political system has to hold its representatives responsible for 
the current crisis. Under the discourse against "caste", a political 
aspect that was almost non-existent in our country was gaining 
visibility, the libertarians (incorrectly known as libertarians), a 
version of liberalism that extremes its criticism of the intervention of 
the State in the regulation of social life and economical.

We do not yet know the final results of the economic plan that the Milei 
government intends to implement, but we do know how it intends to carry 
it out. In less than a month of administration, the government has 
articulated four major measures that reflect its profile and ideological 
horizons. The measures adopted during the first week by the Ministry of 
Economy and the Protocol of the Ministry of Security, also called 
"anti-picket", the subsequent Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) that 
proposes eliminating more than 300 current laws and, finally, the 
"Omnibus Law" project, with more than 600 articles that aims to 
establish new political measures with the force of law on different 
areas of intervention.

What is it that is quickly noticed about all these measures? That the 
so-called "good people" enunciated by the President do not include 
workers and that the economic adjustments are not going to fall on the 
political caste, nor the ecclesiastical, nor the military, much less on 
the business class, but rather (what a surprise ) on the backs of those 
of us who generate production and sell our labor force for a paltry 
salary. In the end, it seems that the originality of the new government 
was related to the measures adopted by its predecessors, using workers 
as adjustment variables.

The latest economic measures announced by the Minister of Economy make 
this clear. Once again, the workers are the ones who have to sustain the 
crisis of capitalism with their misery. The strong devaluation applied 
wipes out our salary, without being able to project stability in the 
face of price speculation and growing inflation. The removal of 
subsidies for services such as transportation adds to this blow to the 
pocketbook, positioning us in a very uncertain panorama. Our salaries, 
which were already falling, are disappearing with the rise in prices, 
and calculations are already being made of how much money will be lost 
in getting to and from the workplace with the increases in public 
transportation. The joint ventures are a mystery, and the layoffs are 
foreseeable.

Since the government knows that its economic policies will generate a 
response from society, they implemented a blanket of repressive 
policies. The objective is aimed at persecuting any organization of the 
exploited under a discourse that seeks to stigmatize those who protest, 
holding them responsible for what may happen in a demonstration. 
Although it could be believed that everything is set up to put a stop to 
the so-called "picketer organizations", in reality its objective is 
broader, targeting any entity that seeks to express its discontent, 
installing paranoia, fear and, consequently, immobility.

In labor matters, both the DNU and the bill highlight the pro-business 
profile assumed by the new government and its vision of the economy, 
limiting rights, annulling historical achievements and making working 
conditions even more flexible. We, as authentically libertarian workers, 
demonstrate against privileges, all of them, and that is why for more 
than a century we have been denouncing that class society is based on 
the privilege of the bourgeoisie. But now, it seems that the strategy of 
domination is not the application of brute force, in the style of a coup 
d'état, but that the master intends to disguise himself as a slave and 
that we believe that we are guilty of the economic lack of control for 
pretending not to die of hunger. You can already hear adjustment 
propagandists in the mass media recommending eating only once a day. We 
would like to see them apply the same diet.

This situation raises the need for us to confront this advance on our 
living conditions. However, we consider that, to a large extent, one of 
the reasons for finding ourselves in this condition is the fault of the 
union leaders, who throughout all these years of loss of purchasing 
power were dedicated to defending their privileged position. For us 
there is nothing new in denouncing the union bureaucracy that lives off 
the contributions of employees. They are part of the status quo that 
sustains this state of affairs. For decades they supported the loss of 
purchasing power, they admitted salary amounts not incorporated into the 
basic, they did nothing about the growth of black labor and the 
expansion of flexibility, thus contributing to the decline in union 
membership and the discredit of the unions. as representative 
organizations of the working class. Not to mention democracy within 
these entities.

We believe that the only way to stop this capitalist advance is to 
remove the rust from the culture of struggle, so that it beats again 
within the labor movement. Run away from decision-making to the leaders 
who came betraying our demands in the name of "social peace", and take 
the lead from the bases, from our jobs. Those of us who directly suffer 
the speculation of rulers and capitalists cannot continue trusting the 
union leaders allied to power. We have to understand that there are no 
magic solutions, no all-powerful saviors. That is why we must take 
charge of our situation and organize ourselves into independent union 
groups that only represent the legitimate interest of the workers.

We return to an old phrase that liberals seem to have forgotten: "No 
more obligations without rights, nor more rights without obligations"

Let's expand direct action as a means of protest

Let's strengthen solidarity between workers

Let's not expect anything from traitors, the decisions are in our hands.

https://organizacion-obrera.fora.com.ar/2024/01/08/los-privilegiados-parece-que-eramos-nosotros/
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