Argentina: Wide impact of the agreement left unity

We present the basic program Front. The presentation of "Left Front and Workers - Unit", formed between the FIT and our MST, It was widely reported in the mainstream media and social networks. The press conference held at the Hotel Castelar, He appeared as very good news for them workers, women and youth, breaking through as the only alternative to employer alliances of the old politics that arose.

News unit was cataloged "Historic" in many ways, achieved after much effort, where the wine MST holding the flag for many years. And claimed by thousands. While politicians armed with shamefaced passes between one and another showing that they are more alike and share the same policy adjustment and submission to the IMF, our united front raises output class independence, breaking with the model and to pay for the crisis capitalist. Proving that is the only "Third space" and the service of the working people.

Postcards reproduce presentation in front Castelar and political statement with 20 programmatic points of consensus agreement among members "Left Front and Workers Unity".

Guillermo Pacagnini

LEFT FRONT AND WORKERS - UNIT
ACTA PROGRAMMATIC AGREEMENT

The Workers Party for Socialism (PTS), the Partido Obrero (PO) and Socialist Left (IS), party members of the Workers' Left Front (FIT) and the Workers' Socialist Movement (MST) agree to form the "Left Front and Workers - Unit" and present common lists of candidates in the upcoming national elections in 2019.

This united front, which gathers almost all the leftist forces of our country, It is based on the framework of a national crisis that the capitalist class wants to pay the workers and popular masses. Macri's government, then pay the vulture funds and the country into debt and mortgage finance at the service of capital flight, He agreed with the International Monetary Fund further adjustment, the rate hikes, spraying of wages and the destruction of thousands of jobs. the IMF, as a representative of imperialist finance capital, is more: a new pension reform and labor flexibility law, while tens of thousands of dollars will continue to go to speculators and debt payments.

Let's change since taking office could not govern and legislate against national interests and working people without the backing of the governors which underwent adjustment in their provinces, including Alicia Kirchner in Santa Cruz, and Peronist deputies and senators who voted all laws and delivery adjustment, including national budgets that included grand theft rate hikes and retirees.

In December 2017 tens of thousands of workers and youth mobilized to Congress to address the pension reform law, suffering harsh repression. The ruling classes and the government took note of the willingness of struggle of working people, and immediately he was "shelved" the labor reform bill that had already been agreed with the CGT. The union bureaucracy in all its wings, with "social movements" led by Pope Bergoglio, on the one hand, Kirchner and his campaign

"There are 2019", for another, They came together to prevent the force of the exploited could defeat the government and its adjustment plans, allowing large devaluation, capital flight, more destruction to wage culminating in the colonial pact with the IMF.

After the union bureaucracy and the bosses' political opponents fulfill the role to prevent defeat in the streets of Macri and its adjustment, Kirchner put Alberto Fernandez head of the formula postulating to replace Macri with Cristina Fernández. We argue that the "Patriotic Front" postulating presents no favorable alternative to the interests of the popular masses. Already they committed to pay the fraudulent debt, including taken by government's change.

Proposed rule without breaking the IMF, which implies the continuity of adjustment and colonial pact signed by Macri. This will mean not only the continuity of backwardness and national dependence, but the worsening of living standards of working people, for the benefit of speculators and large employers.

We denounce a political operation that seeks to impose a polarization between Macri and Kirchner and his allies. These last, based on the hatred of millions just this hambreador government, call for a so-called "patriotic unity" with the same gave governance and laws to macrismo.

A front with adjusted governors in their provinces at the same or higher level than the national government. With Sergio Massa, one of the main contributors to the government's change since taking office in December 2015 and it argues that we must militarize neighborhoods. With whom they faced the fabulous "Green Tide" starring hundreds of thousands of women voting against the right to Legal Abortion, Free secure in their provinces and even deny that legal abortion is practiced.

We do not forget that Kirchner agreed to pay the fraudulent debt with the Paris Club, He initialed a secret pact with the multinational Chevron for exploitation in Vaca Muerta, He tried to negotiate to pay vulture funds, while held most of the privatized utilities benefited from subsidies yesterday and today with rate hikes, and soybean production in the country for the benefit of agricultural employers.

The working people are not condemned to having to endure a greater evil or lesser evil course. No way out, and it is postulated our Front: that pay for the crisis which generated, large employers, bankers, landowners and imperialism.

We hold political independence of workers against any employer variant, including progressive called, and in any case we will call directly or indirectly support any of these fields competing in the field of struggles and also in election, but we propose a way out of class independence that exceeds this trap to put the people seeking.

With the establishment of the "Left Front and Workers -Unit" for elections 2019, FIT and begin a common experience MST, after having quite a few political differences. The critical situation and the catastrophe that threatens the working people, It leads us to jointly explore a path that begins with the political battle that lies ahead in the upcoming elections. This unitary experience that will emerge bases advance agreements or older.
We propose to impose through struggle and mobilization own political exit of workers: ending the tutelage of the IMF and an economic plan and a comprehensive reorganization of the country whose priority is the defense of life of working people. We reject any support for agricultural employers, industrial, financial and service, political-electoral alliances with the center-left and permanent agreements with the union bureaucracy.

The "Left Front Workers - Unit" raises the following points and to the consideration of workers' organizations, student, Popular, to be part of a plan to defeat the struggle for IMF, Macri and governors, for this time, the crisis the capitalists pay, on the way to impose a government of workers. Enough of the CGT truce, CTA and the entire trade union bureaucracy with the government and employers'. national strike and a battle plan to impose this program:

1) Break with the IMF. No payment of debt. Silver salary, job, Health, education and housing, not for the International Monetary Fund. Nationalize the banks and trade to avoid capital flight, caring for small savers and provide cheap credit. For a workers 'government that imposes a workers' and popular debated economic plan and managed by the workers themselves.

2) immediate increase in wages and pensions. Anyone earning less than the value of the basket. Faced with escalating inflation, monthly indexation of wages and pensions.

3) Prohibition dismissal and suspension. Expropriation and nationalization of any company closure, making produce, under the control of workers. Enough of precarious work and black. All permanent staff. I work for all, distribution of working hours without affecting wages between employed and unemployed. Flexibilization down labor reform.

4) Cancellation of the pension reform. For him 82% mobile and have increased minimum covering retirees basket. The return of employer contributions on sale by Macri, Menem and Kirchner Cristina.

5) VAT removal of the basket. Abolition of wage tax. progressive tax on large fortunes. extraordinary tax the big capitalists (bankers, landowners and big business) to meet the most pressing needs of working people. Price control committees and popular supply.

6) Annulment of rate hikes. Nationalization and re-nationalization without payment of all privatized companies under control, administration and management control workers and popular users. Renationalization of all rail and subway system (transport and loading) under control, administration and management of employees at all levels and control of popular users. Renationalization without paying 100% YPF and all oil companies: State by a single national company operating under the control and management of their workers. National plan for energy controlled by workers who carry natural gas and electricity to all households.

7) Expropriation of the oligarchy, Large pools of sowing, as well as the grain monopolies, aceiteros, milkmen and refrigerators. Expropriation of the four thousand principal owners, respecting the rights of poor farmers, indigenous peoples and small landholders. No expulsion from their land of peasants and indigenous. Black enough work for rural workers.

8) Down megaminería. Barrick outside and Chevron. No al fracking. Expropriation of these firms, almost all imperialist, without compensation and to repair damage, guaranteeing employment with equal pay for workers of those companies.

9) By a national education, only, state, public, free and secular. Enough subsidy to private education. Outside the churches of education. real and effective separation of Church and State.

10) By a national public health system and quality by the State. For free health coverage and comprehensive state. Nationalization without compensation of laboratories that profit from people's health. By providing free medicines to those in need. Democratic Control of Social Work by elected committees of workers at the base, to stop being a box with the union bureaucrats get richer.

11) National plan for low-cost housing quality and development of villages and settlements. For progressive taxes on idle housing real estate speculators.

12) For the right to legal abortion, safe and free. sex education to decide, contraceptives for not aborting, legal abortion to avoid death. Plata to combat gender violence, not for the IMF. The rights of women workers. Equal work, equal pay.

13) Chocobar down doctrine and trigger. No to lowering the age of criminal responsibility. Down with the reactionary and repressive amendments to the Criminal Code. No espionage and infiltration of popular organizations. Dissolution of the intelligence agencies to spy on the workers and popular fighters. Project X and below the annulment of the law "anti-terrorist". Annulment of court cases against more than 6.000 workers and popular fighters. Release prisoners for fighting
Punish those guilty of the death of James Maldonado and all material and political murderers of Rafael Nahuel. Jail those responsible for the disappearance of Julio Lopez and Luciano Crease. Jail the material and political murderers of Carlos Fuentealba. Gendarmerie out of neighborhoods.

14) common prison, perpetual and effective genocides and their civilian accomplices and those responsible for the crimes of the Triple A.

15) That every legislator, officer or judge earn the same as a skilled worker or a teacher. Revocation of all mandates by the voters themselves.

16) popular election of prosecutors and judges with revocable mandates. Elimination of all privileges of caste. Jury trials.

17) Outside the trade union bureaucracy. Support for militant trade unionism. The independence of trade unions of state and government of the day. For the full union democracy and the right of workers to organize without interference and state control. For addresses and militant anti-bureaucratic unions, classist character, based on union democracy. We support the self-organization of workers from the regimentation of the union bureaucracy and the bosses' parties.

18) For the defeat of Macri-IMF pact and governors. Sovereign Constituent Assembly by a free and discuss and resolve the emergency measures required to meet the pressing needs of the working population and promote transformation of the country on new social foundations.

19) For a government of workers and the people imposed by the mobilization of the exploited and oppressed.

20) Down the attempted coup in Venezuela driven directly by the intervention of US imperialism and its lackeys of the OAS, without giving any political support to the government of Maduro. British and NATO out of Malvinas. Against the blockade and any kind of imperialist aggression against Cuba. Support for the heroic Palestinian people. Down the Zionist occupation of Palestine.
We support the struggle of the world's working class against imperialist capitalism and its governments. We welcome the popular rebellion in Algeria, the struggle of yellow vests in France and defend the right to self-determination of the people of Catalonia.
An international policy of supporting the working and popular rebellion worldwide, by the expulsion of imperialism in all countries, for the socialist unity of Latin America, for international socialism.