Argentina: CLACSO and G20

Debates around the World Critical Thinking Forum, event organized by CLACSO in CABA. It presented as leading exponents Dilma Rousseff, Jose Mujica, Alvaro Garcia Linera and Cristina Kirchner. Brings together politicians, intellectuals and artists who are part of or support the progressive governments in recent decades in Latin America and intends to "express the struggle for more just and egalitarian societies" and against rights. Bolsonaro wins, Trump and Macri encourage such discussions in the global vanguard. Do you answer this space to the challenges? In this article we bring our opinions.

Of Argentina lxs main panelists are former funcionarixs the Kirchner government or new additions that space as Juan Grabois, Victoria Donda or Felipe Solá. Cristina's speech on the first day seems to show that its objective primarily aims at strengthening electoral armed with view 2019.

With the G20 or G20 against?

The event takes place a few days before the G20 summit, led by Trump, the other imperialist leaders and multilateral lenders like the IMF, the World Bank and OECD. The Macri support agreement with the IMF is one of its aims.

Confront imperialism rights and warrants first push the single largest mobilization against this event as we have been doing the organizations that make up the "Confluence Outside G20-IMF" to confront those responsible hunger, the exploitation of the working classes, the villages; and environmental predation that destroys nature apace, who despises the survival of human life behind his thirst for capitalist profits. However this is not a center of most of the leaders of Forum CLACSO, who do not participate or mobilization drive 30/11, question that looks nothing casual considering that Dilma, Cristina and Mujica have been permanent attendees while they ruled G20.

Critical thinking uncritically

It is striking that a forum for critical thinking, is absent precisely the critical analysis of the progressive governments that opened the door to the right. Neither Macri nor Bolsonaro born in a cabbage, They are the product of more than a decade of government FPV PT in Argentina and Brazil that disappointed important part of society to not solve many of their demands.

Dilma said in his speech that the rise of the right in the neighboring country was partly due to lack of prosecution military dictatorship. It did not had the opportunity in the PT 13 years to carry them forward? He has not had a chance to end the political regime, economic and social emerged from negotiations with the Dictatorship? Do not need to look for the causes of the triumph of Bolsonaro the lack of responses to the movements PT June 2013? It does not have anything to do adaptation PT worst of politics and Brazilian corporations that ended up getting involved in the Lava Jato? Or you have chosen the path of adjustment on the popular sectors rather than against major industrial and financial power from the economic crisis 2014? None of these questions flew over the event.

¿Anti neoliberal and anti-fascist unity?

The center of the exhibition Dilma and Cristina was the need to form large units to face neoliberal and fascist right in elections. The same pose different intellectuals and leaders who are part of the space. The question is: Numeraire what? Numeraire who? If it is to promote the mobilization, which we believe is the central way to confront rights, we agree to achieve the broadest unity of action, for example to defeat Macri now setting and the IMF without waiting 2019, but is not that his approach.

As for political unity is needed, This is not only to face the leaders but their policies right; and establish a program that responds to workers' needs and popular. You can make a common program to end the adjustment lxs PJ leaders that all laws voted adjustment Macri? With whom pose no break with the IMF? Is it possible to end environmental degradation make a face with the megaminero Gioja, the exterminator of Bordet schools or Alicia Kirchner selling as progress fracking and mega dams? Defend the rights of indigenous peoples with Insfrán? EXPAND the rights of women and dissidence, achieve legal abortion and gender-ESI with the spokesmen of the pope and celestial handkerchiefs?You can fight xenophobia xenophobic as Picheto?

The argument "Let's get right and then see" It is dead end street. Draw conclusions from what happened in Brazil is of great importance. You can not ignore that Lula took as vice president José Alencar, a large textile industry and referent of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, institution that later was one of the architects of the arrival of Bolsonaro to power. Not to fear, Vice President Dilma, was who finished consummating his departure and implement economic reforms that facilitated the arrival of fascism. Follow that path only guarantees new frustrations. It is an illusion to repeat the same recipes and expecting different results.

The exit is on the left

To face rights is essential boost the united struggle on the streets, work places, study, etc. while providing the mobilization of a program that responds to the needs of the working class and popular sectors. Progressivism has shown the limitations in both directions. Betting on the institutional mechanisms of capital and try to manage the state, coexisting with those in power without affecting their interests, may allow some circumstantial improvement in times of high prices of commodities, but not solve the underlying problems and make the necessary structural changes, opening the doors to the rise of the rights that barely manage to recompose forces contratacan.

To end the power of financial capital, the destruction of the planet and subjugation to imperialism must take measures including the break with the IMF and non-payment of foreign debts, nationalizing banking and foreign trade, nationalization with workers' and social control of economic levers, the recovery of the commons, constituent assemblies that end with the political and judicial systems in the service of economic power, ban pesticides, fracking and contaminant megaminería. That is to say, advance measures anticapitalist break with corporations and financial capital to put the wealth of our countries to serve the workers' needs and popular.

Against right, unite all left

The challenge for the left and lxs luchadorxs is to confront fascism rights and calling the massive and united mobilization and simultaneously build a mass political alternative visible, with a vocation of power, so that the energies of these struggles do not end up paying for projects that have already failed by its limitations. For that, the road is to forge the unity of all the anti-capitalist left in a tool able to attract all lxs to fight for a political transformation , economic and social benefit of the majority. With that commitment and service of those tasks we build the MST and anti-capitalist Network.

Emilio Poly

reproduced from Anticapitalist Network

Nov 21, 2018