Uruguay: Socialist Rumbo statement on national elections

This year the government of our country is decided for the next 5 years. Queremos dar a conocer nuestra posición ante las elecciones nacionales, but not before making some clarifications.

We understand that electoral processes in the framework of bourgeois democracy do nothing but reaffirm the oppression of one class over another. Especially in this election, We are witnessing a fragmentation of political parties of the bourgeoisie finding a wide range of proposals from the ultra-right to center-left positions more, all with chances to have a voice in parliament.

While there will be no deep solutions under the conditions of the working class from the perspective of class without breaking with capitalism and imperialism, We understand that as a revolutionary political organization should not be oblivious to this event and if we delve into the proposals on the table and the political agenda of the different parties presented.

We have been discussing with several leftist organizations need to create an alternative that allows to have a different choice in the upcoming elections, however we have failed to reach an agreement that creates the appearance of it for different reasons. We think it's a mistake not to do so and you should try to unify the future even in coordination that allows us to face the onslaught of the right with a unitary policy of all fighters and social activists.

After several meetings and exchanges we have made our position regarding the upcoming elections and it seems important to make it known because we understand that you need to have a voice in parliament representing the interests of the working class.

For us it is important to add in that regard and we believe the best option you have is calling to vote Socialist Commitment List 565 to boost the voice of workers.

We have anyone representing the working class and drive the following measures:
Protect the environment and move towards a sustainable model where prioritize the care of all components, the protection of water, end the use of pesticides and GMOs, prioritize the recovery of soils and various measures more in the sense of caring for our planet and this can not be achieved without an environmental policy. In that sense we oppose the installation of a second plant UPM would bring catastrophic consequences for our environment and the economy and will primarizando our production and deepening the extrativism.

Improve the quality of education without it being transformed into training according to the needs of the bourgeoisie, but forms critical individuals capable of interpreting reality in order to transform. destine 6% GDP plus 1% in research
Move towards a state public health system and to ensure care for the entire population being this right and end the business of medical corporations.

Ensure that high-priced drugs reach everyone regardless of their purchasing power this being a right. Declare national interest medicines and produce them in national laboratories as generic without paying licensing.

Ensure decent housing with low-income housing plan that is accessible to the sectors most submerged, and prioritize low rate of interest to the cooperative housing sector.

Enhance the wages councils in the private sector collective bargaining in the public sector. Today they are an important conquest restored in recent 15 years.

Maintain and improve the purchasing power of workers it is essential to improve the quality of life of the majority.

On the issue of social security where all the bourgeois parties make contributions numbers and aim both to change the replacement rate and lower pensions and increasing years of contributions and working, we understand that first we must end the profit system means individual savings privatized leaving huge profits to those who profit from the contribution of workers.

Back to solidarity and unique system, end the waste of military dump box and that the solidarity system. Unification of all pension systems into a single system.

The feminist movement has shown over and breadth of our planet that generates violence machismo and patriarchy. It is important to move towards a class feminism is part of our program to end violence against women ends with dead companions, enhance and improve gender law in that regard but mostly address the underlying problem from education.

Expropriate the means of production companies that close and keep them running (with reengineering the case to correct the current irrationality) under state ownership and control and participation of workers and users, under strict comptroller bodies there for that purpose.

Creating witnesses and regulators prices ending with overpricing (national refrigerator, subsistences).

End the outsourcing both state and private generated deregulation and casualization for workers.

Audit of the external debt today means invaluable to the Uruguayan state spending and that the interests of the same are paid from the total collected personal income tax.

Ending the tax on labor misnamed personal income tax and instead gradually generate heavy taxes on wealth.

For this and much more we understand that the alternative and change is left and has to be routed to socialism as the only way to a parasitic system of wealth accumulation for the bourgeoisie and imperialism.

This call to vote the list of Socialist Commitment, which is part of Popular Unity, It does not imply unconditional support to the latter, a political nucleation with which we have had differences. But if you really want the widest unity of the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist left we are not going to sit and wait. We decided to support a group, in the UP, He has clearly worked for that goal, besides having more proximity with them in specific positions.

For all this we invite you to join us with your vote. To the left voice is heard in parliament vote 565 Socialist commitment.

Socialist Rumbo

reproduced from International Socialist League | 12.6.2019