MAJOR MEETING OF WOMEN FROM
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
On 24, 25 and 26 July, around 300 women from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador,
Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela joined women from our own country for an extraordinary Fourth Meeting of Women from Latin America and the Caribbean at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
Over the course of those three days, 1,300 women – including delegations from many Argentine provinces and with the active participation of working women, rural women, indigenous women and students, amongst others – discussed their realities and struggles, strengthening unity in action amongst women across the continent. As reflected in our pages and in the final declaration, the Meeting represented a step forward in the struggle “for the defence of Latin American sovereignty and for the strengthening the anti imperialist and anti-fascist struggle”.
This Fourth Meeting, following those held in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Brazil,
will be followed by the Fifth Meeting in Colombia, the venue chosen for 2029.
The Argentine Preparatory Committee, comprising comrades from trade unions of grassroots sectors, carried out a great deal of political and organisational work over the course of two years to ensure a successful Fourth Meeting, as well as the accommodation, transport and the many activities organised by the delegations from our country and from sister nations. As stated in the Meeting’s final declaration, released on 26 July: “Today we bring this Fourth Meeting to a close and, from here, we embrace our sisters throughout the Americas.We women stand firm, we raise our voices and we rally our strength.
Today, united, organised and in solidarity, we will be part of the great popular tide that will enable us to defeat these policies of starvation and capitulation and to impose others— independent and sovereign—in the service of our peoples.”
OUT WITH THE IMF FROM
ARGENTINA
On Monday 27th, the PCR and the JCR took to the streets, alongside the UTEP and other grassroots groups, to condemn the presence of the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, who came to Argentina to back the Mileigovernment’s sell-out and hunger inducing policies.
IMF had visited was during the Macri government, when the very same figures who today continue to work for the vulture funds and the major international banks— such as Luis Caputo and Sturzenegger—plunged Argentina into debt to the tune of over 50 billion dollars. This time, they displayed the height of subservience by inviting Georgieva to an extended cabinet meeting as if she were part of the government. Not even the most subservient governments we have ever had dared to subject themselves to such humiliation.
The government flaunts its subservience, running counter to the patriotic sentiment that was once again expressed during the World Cup with the demand for sovereignty over the
Falklands, a sentiment that is filling football grounds and mass concerts across the country.
A few days before the arrival of the IMF chief, the FBI’s second-incommand, Andrew Bailey, landed in Buenos Aires to work with Milei’s SIDE on implementing the agreements reached at a meeting with the US StateDepartment against what they call
“left-wing political terrorism”.
The government is stepping up its repressive operations and the persecution of opponents, at a time when anger is growing and unity for the struggle on the streets is strengthening.
MILEI IS A YANKEE LACKEY ON THE CONTINENT
Milei once again acted as a lackey for Trump’s interests in Latin America when he travelled to Brazil to support Flavio Bolsonaro’s presidential bidand hurled insults at the president of the neighbouring country, Lula da Silva, and the Supreme Court judge who prevented him from visiting Jair Bolsonaro, who is in prison for his attempted coup.
The Brazilian government responded by rejecting the insults and recalling its ambassador to Argentina, in a diplomatic incident without precedent in the history of relations between the two countries. Brazil is Argentina’s main trading partner of Argentina, which once again
demonstrates how little Milei and his government care about sustaining what remains of the battered national industry—apart from mining, oil and agro-exporters—or about the historic relations with a sister country in our Latin America. All in the service of playing dirty to favour US interests,which aim to take another step towards securing Bolsonaro’s victory in Brazil’s October elections.
Trump’s advances across the Americas, as Despite electoral victories in various countries, the administration is facing resistance across the continent, such as the protests sweeping Argentina, those continuing in Bolivia, the teachers’ protests in Ecuador, and in the United States itself, where New York railway workers went on strike and protests against the fascist persecution of migrants continue. Amidst the unrelenting armed conflicts, major social struggles are emerging. At present, India is being shaken by mass youth protests, triggered by the government’s favouritism in leaking entrance exams for medical schools. Young people are exposing the lie of the ‘prosperous nation’ peddled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and are denouncing rising unemployment, as well as an elitist and outdated education system.At the time of writing (27 July), following two weeks of criminal bombings on Iran, the US president ordered to halt the bombings because there are “new negotiations”.
This marks yet another failure for Trump, who has so far been unable to overcome the Iranian national resistance, despite his criminal attack on the civilian population and strategic targets such as drinking water plants. Iran has denied that these negotiations are taking place,and in recent days has attacked military bases and logistics centres in countries across the region with governments allied to the US. In Ukraine and Russia, more than Four and a half years after the start of the Russian imperialist invasion, whilst fighting against the imperialist invaders continues, internal contradictions are coming to the fore.
In Putin’s Russia, young people are increasingly refusing to enlist voluntarily in the armed forces, leading the government to state that it may conscript thousands of young people.
In Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was forced to dismiss the Army’s commander-in-chief, Oleksander Syrskyi, who had faced fierce criticism and allegations of abuse against the troops. Against this backdrop, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a brief meeting with of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, who warned him that it is “unacceptable” for the US to continue supplying weapons to Ukraine.
The heatwave this European summer has once again highlighted the fragility of fire-fighting systems in some of the major powers, such as France, where the ferocity of the fires has already forced the evacuation of more than 220,000 people.
THE GOVERNMENT IS
DESTROYING ARGENTINA
On Sunday 26th, at the Rural Society – that hotbed of the oligarchy – Milei gave a speech in which he once again promised to abolish agricultural export levies, without specifying when. This contradicts the position put forward by the current president of the Rural
Society, who, despite his support for the government’s course, called for them to be abolished ‘forever’ withholding taxes. Milei reiterated the long-standing aspiration of large
landowners and agro-exporters to ‘be the world’s breadbasket’ and once again praised the genocidal General Roca. All of this is for the benefit of the large landowners, whilst for poor and middle-income farmers, and for indigenous communities, it amounts to a policy that drives them off the land.
This situation will worsen if the government succeeds in passing the law on foreign ownership of land, which is due to be debated in Congress on 6 August. That is why we are calling for the widest possible mobilisation on that day – in a day of action outside Congress and across the country – to express our rejection of this disastrous bill.The government’s policies only exacerbate the hardships faced by the majority of workers and the people.
In July, 72 per cent of households reported that they could not make ends
meet. This is what millions of us experience on a daily basis. The fall in meat consumption is already the sharpest on record, whilst Milei celebrates the rise in exports. Lay-offs and company closures continue, as does the decline in mass consumption. A report by the Argentine Integrated Pension System (SIPA) states that there have been 12 consecutive months of decline in registered employment, and that 330,000 jobs have been lost.
And the national capitulation continues too. Whilst ‘The Falklands are Argentine’ banners are multiplying across the country, and T-shirts, stickers and graffiti are appearing, the silence of this government—which is turning its back on the Islas Malvinas—is deafening when the Israeli company Navitas Petroleum is exploring for oil in our Islas Malvinas with the the Sea Lion project, in partnership with the British company Rockhopper Exploration. This is one of the largest off shore developments in the South Atlantic. Its reserves are estimated to be a third of those of Vaca Muerta.This president, who travels to Israel all the time and is now planning a trip to England, remains complicitlysilent.
WE ARE FORGING UNITY IN THE
STREETS
The day of action by the unemployed and those in precarious employment
on Wednesday 22nd demonstrated the determination to fight of more than 90
organisations, which condemned the court ruling that halted payments under the ‘Back to Work’ scheme,depriving to more than 950,000 women and comrades of their wages.Roadblocks were set up on the approaches to Buenos Aires and in Rosario, amongst other towns, alongside demonstrations andpopular assemblies in severalprovinces.
On the same day, many of these organisations joined forces with the CGT and the two CTAs in support of the pensioners’ struggle, marching to the National Congress and in several provinces. This day of action took place amidst ongoing sectoral struggles in many provinces, such as that of the teachers in Río Negro and Entre Ríos, who took to the streets last week. Around 6 August, a large-scale protest is being organised against what the government calls the ‘law on the inviolability of private property’, which is nothing more
than a law designed to allow foreigners to buy land without anyrestrictions whatsoever, even in border areas, and to press ahead with the evictions of indigenous communities for the benefit of large landowners, foreign millionaires and property developers.
For 7 August, St Cayetano’s Day, a major day of action is being prepared to build on the unity achieved in the struggle on Wednesday 22nd, as a further step towards organising a 36- hour national strike that unites the working class—in all its forms, including the employed, the unemployed, those in precarious employment and pensioners—with the
peasantry and the working-class sectors, and deals a heavy blow to this
policy of starvation and sell-out.The government is pressing ahead with its electoral agenda, forging alliances with governors and legislators to secure Milei’s re-election, doling out revenue-sharing funds in dribs and drabs and buying votes with SIDE money.
But it comes up against the reality of the vast masses, who cannot wait until 2027 to resolve their situation. That is why the debate isgrowing from the grassroots on how to move forward in unity to say‘Enough!’ to this policy, seeking paths to convergence.
It is from this perspective that we approach and make the most of the debates leading up to the elections, fighting for our emergency programme within the multi-sectoral groups,
and also in conversations with friends and allies from various popular parties, proposing the broadest possible unity to put an end to this policy and to this end, to drive forward the economic, social and political mobilisation of the people, which is the most effective guarantee of unity.
To make progress towards these objectives, we are giving a final push this week in our party’s fundraising campaign, so that we can meet our targets for contributions
and funds, because financial selfsufficiency guarantees the PCR’s political independence, as we work to unite everything that can be united to defeat this policy and pave the way for agovernment of democratic, patriotic and popular unity that will pursue a different policy in favour of the people and the nation.000
(WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY
COMMUNIST PARTY OF ARGENTINA
YEAR 42 / No. 2119 / BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA,
29 JULY 2026
ISSN/No. 0329–577X / $1,500 / SOLIDARITY
SUBSCRIPTION $2,000 EDITOR: GERMÁN VIDAL)
