A-Infos (en) Brazil, OSL: Argentina and Brazil: Unity of the working class against the offensive of capital (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

We express our unwavering solidarity with the Argentine working class 
and all sectors in struggle who are confronting in the streets the labor 
reform project presented by the ultraliberal government of Javier Milei, 
which seeks to make the working and living conditions of the Argentine 
people more precarious. The proposal was approved this morning by the 
Argentine Chamber of Deputies and will return to the Senate.

Since February 11, tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the 
streets in Argentina to say no to the labor reform that the Milei 
government is trying to impose. Yesterday, a general strike was called 
to try to block the proposal. The government's response was police 
repression, with rubber bullets, tear gas and dozens of arrests, in a 
way of criminalizing the social struggle.

The reform underway in Argentina severely attacks historical rights: it 
facilitates dismissals and reduces compensation; it institutes a time 
bank with shifts of up to 12 hours without overtime pay; it allows 
vacations to be split into only seven days; It establishes 
company-specific agreements with fewer rights than collective bargaining 
agreements; and restricts the right to strike.

Meanwhile, in Brazil, the 2017 labor reform, implemented by Temer, 
maintained by Bolsonaro, and preserved by Lula/Alckmin, continues to 
generate damaging effects. And new attacks are mounting: the opinion of 
the Attorney General's Office, signed by Paulo Gonet at the beginning of 
this month, defends the use of independent contractors (known as 
"pejotização" in Brazil) and removes the Labor Court's jurisdiction to 
recognize fraud, benefiting companies that have already transformed 4.8 
million employees into independent contractors. At the same time, the 
proposed constitutional amendment (PEC) that aims to end the 6x1 work 
schedule risks being distorted in Congress by maneuvers of the Centrão 
(a group of center-right political parties) and Bolsonaro's 
parliamentarians, who want to further flexibilize the CLT (Consolidation 
of Labor Laws) in the name of "free enterprise," leading to more 
precariousness and insecurity for workers.

The offensive is the same: capital has no borders and attacks in a 
coordinated manner in Latin America. Therefore, the struggle of 
Argentine workers is also our struggle. In both Argentina and Brazil, 
only street pressure, mobilization, and class independence can stop the 
advance of neoliberalism. Therefore, it is also necessary to build 
bridges of unity between the struggles of Brazilian and Argentine 
workers against the common enemy.

The struggle in Argentina is yet another battle in a broader war against 
the offensive of capital against labor throughout Latin America. We 
stand with the Argentine workers in this trench!

Libertarian Socialist Organization

February 2026

https://socialismolibertario.net/argentina-e-brasil-unidade-da-classe-trabalhadora/
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