Hora Política (Editorial)
We advance in the fight against this swindling government.
On March 8th hundreds of thousands of women and diversities and diversities won the streets against the government’s policies and in defense of our rights. Popular solidarity grows in the face of the floods in Bahia Blanca. Milei enters another agreement by decree with the agreement with the IMF. On the 12th we march to the Congress in defense of retirees. It has been 49 years since the beginning of the genocidal dictatorship of 1976, we do not forget, we do not forgive. We will march all over the country against denialism and for memory, truth and justice, truth and justice.
Written by Ricardo Fierro and Germán Vidal
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Solidarity with the people of Bahía Blanca
On Friday, March 7, heavy rains fell on the city of Bahia fell on the city of Bahía Blanca and its surroundings, causing severe flooding, with at least 16 people dead, missing persons and thousands of people who suffered the loss of their homes and property. As stated by the secretary of the PCR César García “This was much worse than the previous much worse than before. It is clear that all this has to do with the climate change that Milei’s government denies, and of course does not put any money into preventing these changes, on the contrary.
In Bahía Blanca itself, and in the whole country, a large country, a great solidarity campaign is being developed with the thousands of people who have lost everything. The PCR, the JCR and the movements in which we participate, in the zone are organizing brigades to repair and clean houses and hospitals; and all over the country they organize and promote solidarity collections.
Three days before the storm, Minister Pettovello had dismantled the National Emergency Directorate of Emergencies, and Bullrich lied once again and tried to blame the Meteorological Service, the same one that this government dismantled with dozens of layoffs.
The national government, with its Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and Defense Minister Petri tried to to caravan in the affected neighborhoods of Bahia Blanca, and were driven out by the outraged neighbors. Because of this fact Milei decided not to appear in that region.
Solidarity with the people of Bahía Blanca!
There were also serious floods in other parts of the country, such as Tucumán, Jujuy, San Luis and Salta, with hundreds of homes and rural productions affected. We call on the provincial and national governments for assistance to the affected people and prevention works.
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From the massive 8M and opposition to 12M with retirees
On Saturday, March 8, the women’s movement and diversities movement of
Argentina once again hit the streets all over the the whole country, in spite of the bad weather in many places. The claim against this swindling government, which takes away the rights of women and all the people.
In all the corners of the country thatwere not affected by the big storms, women and diversities
stood up against this policy that aggravates hunger, poverty, unemployment, as well as femicides and violence. The young women played a leading role, with their combativeness and their demands. The government, with a fascist propaganda, attacked the women’s movement again on 8M, because it knows that it is one of the engines of the popular struggle in our country.
In addition to the organized columns, in marches that were unitary in many parts of the country, thousands and thousands of self-convened people took to streets and squares, with posters and banners denouncing the adjustment, the violence , concrete cases of femicide and trafficking, as well as the demand for the extension of the pension moratorium.
The constant repression of the marches of retirees in front of the Congress, together with the
hand in hand with the adjustment of pensions and the announcement of the end of the moratorium, which will leave millions without the possibility of retirement, is raising a wave of indignation with the government, and of solidarity with retirees.
The initial participation of some soccer fans on soccer fans on Wednesday 5/3, where the federal forces in charge of Minister Patricia Bullrich once again to repress with malice aforethought the demonstrators protesters filled with anger all the popular sectors, and with the slogan of “defending the retirees”, the call extended to all the soccer clubs and to many trade union organizations, as well as to and many trade union, social and political organizations. They are calling for Wednesday 12, among others, the Agrupación Celeste del Astillero Río Santiago, the CCC, the PCR and the JCR.
We can see that the main opposition to this government is in the the struggle in the streets.
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International Situation .
The day of March 8, on the International Women’sInternational Women’s Day Women’s Day, brought together millions who marched all over the world. At many countries protested against governments that dump the crisis on workers, and in particular on women workers. They denounced the advance of policies that seek to curtail women’s and diversity, and the solidarity with the cause of the Palestinian people and in particular their women, in the face of Israel’s fascist genocide.
The day of 8M, in our continent and continent and around the world, once again the power of the women’s and women’s movements and diversity movements, as part of the struggles taking place in all continents, hidden by the mainstream media.
The Trump administration’s tariff measures, and the threats of others, are deepening the trade war, both with U.S. border governments as well aswith imperialist powers in Europe, and with China. The social-imperialist Chinese government responded saying they were prepared to “fight to the end in every kind of war. It imposed tariffs on U.S. agricultural products and increased the defense budget by 7.2%.
The countries of the European Union are moving forward with military rearmament. The
President of the European Union, Ursula Von der Leyen, declared that “The United States remains a key ally, but Europe must be more autonomous in terms of security” and presented a plan with an initial investment of $163.044 billion to strengthen Europe’s military forces.
French President Macron is pushing for European rearmament and threatened the possibility of using nuclear weapons to stop Russia. The Russian imperialism’s top dog, Putin, reminded Macron “how Napoleon ended up ” when he attacked Russia in 1812.The Trump administration suspended military aid and intelligence collaboration with the Ukrainian, allowing advances of the Russian imperialist invader in Ukraine where its troops seized two small towns in small towns in Donetsk and continue to attack power and gas plants. This forced Trump to threaten with sanctions and decided to re-engage in intelligence information with Ukraine, although he reiterated that he “trusts” Putin for a “peace agreement.” Now they are going to a U.S.-Ukraine in Saudi Arabia, where the Yankees are blackmailing with an agreement that would give them ashare in Ukraine’s mineral resources.
On Monday 10, Iranian warships, China and Russia began joint naval exercises “Security Belt-2025
2025” near the Iranian port of Chabahar.
In Gaza, the genocidal government of Netanyahu has been preventing the entry of humanitarian aid, food and medicine. Now it has announced that it will cut off the supply of electricity to the Gaza Strip, which not only means a lack of energy but also a lack of water , since drinking water is provided by seawater desalination plants, which would be left without power.
The Vatican released medical reports that indicate small positive steps in the health of Pope Francis, and he himself sent a message thanking message thanking the millions of believers and non-believers who wish him aspeedy recovery.
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The delivery and the swindle advance Milei’s government is moving forward with a new sell-out agreement with the IMF, to obtain “fresh dollars” to give air to its economic plan, which is creaking on all sides. The agreement will be passed by decree, ignoring the
Congress, which adds one more illegality from the point of view of the Constitution itself, which this government tramples on with less and less modesty. As we stated last week this agreement with the IMF is a new and gigantic swindle , for the benefit of the large big financial speculators who are lining their pockets with the measures of the Minister of Economy.
The government intends with this agreement the elections without the inflation, which continues to grow despite its lies, to shoot up with a new devaluation of the peso.In the interests of the people and the homeland, any agreement with the IMF means more adjustment and more national surrender, and we must face it.
The government boasts of continuing with the chainsaw against public works, causing thousands of layoffs and company closures. They increased the rates in the AMBA, and we had a huge blackout on Wednesday a gigantic blackout on Wednesday 5th because Milei lets the electric companies to do whatever they want. There were street blockades and pots and pans in several places in CABA and Greater Buenos Aires, showing their anger towards the electricity companies that supply electricity. The government, with its powerful media and the “enveloped” journalists it controls, tries to bury the “crypto swindle”, but new denunciations continue to emerge, about how the Milei brothers controlled the whole operation, for which millions of dollars went to their pockets and those of their partners (or of their partners or patrons).
Meanwhile, the prosecutor in charge of the case takes lukewarm measures, giving time to those implicated to erase their traces of this great swindle, the governmentcontinues to worry about the government is still worried about the trials abroad and because all the pollsters show a significant drop in Milei’s image is dropping significantly.
Milei’s policy is wreaking havoc in the national industry, particularly in the small and and medium-sized companies. A report by the UIA (Argentine Industrial Union), whose leadership agrees with this plan of starvation and the elimination of labor rights, warns about the brutal fall in production and closures due to the policy of indiscriminate import policy. This also affects some large companies and regional economies.
Among the great masses, the essence of this government, which is advancing with a policy that only benefits a handful of imperialist monopolies, big landowners, bankers and international usurers, while it increases hunger, poverty and austerity for the majority of the workers, pensioners and the people as a whole.
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Organizing the growing anger
In several provinces, rural producers are taking to the the streets, confronting the consequences
consequences of the government’s policy that is leading to the ruin of regional economies to ruin. Last week followed the protests of the yerbateros in Misiones, which are growing. There was a “Bananazo” in Orán, Salta, by the native communities who cannot sell their production. In the Chaco, cotton producers took to the roads in Roque Saenz Peña , demanding
demanding measures from the national and provincial government, in view of what they describe as an “agricultural disaster”.
In Mendoza, on March 8, converged in the “Contracarrusel de la Vendimia”, a popular assemblies that defend water and the environment against polluting mega-mining, and women and diversities, against this policy that increased 400% the import of wine imports in the last year, harming local production.
In several provinces, teachers’ strikes have been taking place in several provinces at all levels, and the Union Front of National Universities is preparing a 48-hour day of struggle for March 17 and 18.
On Wednesday, March 12, when this edition will take to the streets, there will be a great popular concentration in front of the, in defense of the rights of retirees. The rally will be attended by soccer fans and union, social and political organizations, in the face of the repression of this starving government.
The “paddling” against the current is advancing for water, life and sovereignty, in defense of the Paraná, which will reach the city of Rosario on March 22 to the city of Rosario, in the province of Santa Fe. For March 24, a great day of a great national day of struggle, repudiating the beginning of the genocidal dictatorship, on March 24, 1976. The focus this year will be to confront in the streets the denialist policy of the government, which vindicates the criminals responsible for State terrorism.
In large masses it is becoming clear that the the fraud of this government’s policy, which said that the “caste” was going to pay for the adjustment, and since its took office the only thing it has done is to take measures against the workers, the people and sovereignty, in order to fatten the pockets of the “caste” of the big monopolies, imperialist powers and usurers that bloc of ruling classes that sustains Milei and his cronies.
In the workplaces, places of work, study and housing, a political debate is going on What is the way to organize this growing anger?How do we get out of this swindle, without turning back? By putting ourselves at the forefront of all the struggles for popular emergencies that are growing with this policy, from the PCR and the JCR we are going to these debates raising the need to deepen the struggle and unity against Milei’s government. In this we inscribe the fight for a new national and multisectoral strike that unifies the struggles that are taking place all over the country, despite the fact that part of the union part of the union leaderships look the other way and conciliates with the national government.
For this we strengthen the work of the the Party and the Youth in the big companies, among the peasants and small producers, in the neighborhoods, schools and faculties, prioritizing the multisectoral groups as instruments of unity for the workers and people’s struggle. Along this road we prepare ourselves for confrontations, because we have to to twist the arm of this policy of hunger, poverty, repression and surrender, and advance towards another policy and another government, on the road to a true revolution that will put an end to the great evils to which the landowning latifundia and imperialist domination.
