Argentina: The anti-imperialist struggle and left

The presence of the G-20 and IMF, reopen debates on the left showing the limits and errors FIT.

It is a known fact that the G-20 in Buenos Aires implies the arrival of the major powers and imperial powers to plunder and destroy the planet depending on their class interests. They are planning throughout the region and the world their adjustment to download the global crisis on our countries. From its summit new recipes that will have to face in the streets.

Macri's government and Bullrich drives the militarization of the city and a fear campaign about the metropolitan population, with media operations to prevent these days a strong repudiation express the G-20.

FIT: absent in the counter-summit without an alternative proposal

Enough reasons to push a huge united campaign against the G-20, develop all kinds of initiatives unit, to have the greatest possible social and political weight and popular bands who repudiate the imperialist intervention can have a channel mobilization.
It is a great opportunity for the left to lead an open call and is starring in a huge counter-summit, as part of several days of anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggle. But it is not the policy of FIT, which he did not lead any call and opposes to participate in the summit against other forces organized for days 28 and 29N, Social and Plaza Congreso respectively. FIT only part of the final march on 30. It does as little as possible, when he should have put all their strength against the G-20.

The same mistake before the IMF

This propagandistic actions already had the FIT to mark the first agreement Macri and IMF. At that time he refused to be part of marches and various forces unit acts organized in Plaza de Mayo and other political centers. Some of its members to criticize us because we participated in joint actions against the IMF, when it was a correct and essential political task left to place at the forefront of the fight against background. The FIT at that time tried to cover their sectarian abstentionism with statements and any act of commitment, electoralist closed and dye.

A little history

It is worth remembering that the history of Leninism and Trotskyism is different. In the 20s the Third International under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky spread, among other texts, his thesis East. Developing a bold anti-imperialist politics, He raised: "The working class of the colonies and semi-colonies should know firmly that only the expansion and intensification of the struggle against imperialist yoke of the metropolis can assign a leading role in the revolution and the economic and political organization and political education working class and semi proletarians elements are the ones that can increase the amplitude of the revolutionary struggle against imperialism. Communist parties of the colonial and semi colonial countries of the East, which they are still in a more or less embryonic, They must participate in any movement that will serve to whet a path to the masses. "

In those same years Trotsky, on the situation in France, He recommended the greater audacity and political offensive and tactical united front with reformist and centrist organizations. Logic and correctly was struggling for political independence of the revolutionary front of others to continue gaining political influence. Thus he arose in his texto1: "The policy of the united front, Nevertheless, itself contains no guarantees for the unit made in all actions. Conversely, On numerous occasions, maybe in most of them, the agreement of the different organizations met only reach halfway or nothing. But it is necessary that the struggling masses can be convinced at all times that the unity of action has failed not because of our formal intransigence but because of the lack of real will to struggle of reformers. "

Within the first four congresses of the Third International, fascist amid progress in several countries, his approach on how to proceed was: "One of the most important tasks of the communist parties is to organize resistance to international fascism, to stand in front of the entire proletariat in the struggle against the fascist gangs and vigorously applied also in this field the united front tactic. " In this world of Trump and Bolsonaro, certainly a similar approach would be correct.

By a consistent left

As in every key discussion, the conclusions are decisive. The first thing that jumps out is that the electioneering away to the left of the real tasks and political struggles that need a conscious impulse. The FIT permanently falls on an opportunistic deviation, by not putting all his strength in the struggle against imperialism and anti-capitalist, refusing a broad unity of action.
From the MST, and we have participated in each joint action against IMF, before the arrival of G-20 we plan to be part of the greater unity of action in the streets and in various unit events to denounce the plan of the imperialist powers will meet here.

We will have a great act anti G-20 23N Friday at Plaza Congreso, We will be part of several workshops on Social 28N and common panels and a central event in the Plaza Congreso 29N, all part of space "Confluence" against the G-20. In these activities we are inviting drivers of PSOL in Brazil to express the fight against Bolsonaro. Finally we will make an important column of the MST in ordinary march 30N.

In each of these various activities we will express our own positions and proposals, thus ensuring the two premises of revolutionary Marxism: the largest unit in the streets and political independence to develop all the views of the anti-imperialist left, anti-capitalist and socialist. And we invite all our readers to be part of these events and to strengthen the MST a draft unitary and consistent left in our country.

1. The united front and Communism in France, 1922.

Sergio Garcia

reproduced from Anticapitalist Network

Nov 21, 2018