Argentina: The Plaza de Mayo dressed in red

Saturday 19 woke up with good weather, once the earlier rains have passed. As usual, The usual last-minute preparations were going on in the party premises.: confirm the route of a micro, fix the patch of some bass drum, arrange the flags…

Since the previous days, the logical anxiety of every great political act had been accumulating.. Flyers were added to the hand-in-hand invitations in the workplace and neighborhoods., the dissemination on the networks and the invitation to so many supporters and fellow travelers to share the event.“It is time for socialism and a workers' government” was the calling slogan, marking the course to follow.

Square, roja

The efforts of the MST militancy paid off well-deservedly.  Anyway, We could not close this very difficult year without making the voice and political proposals of the revolutionary left heard loudly.. And so we did.

As you approach, the square looked red with flags, with a high stage facing the Rosada, The chairs are well organized and people arrive little by little.. From the entire city and suburbs, including La Plata, They came in columns or chatting in small groups. Who? Workers, young boys, neighbors of popular neighborhoods; left-wing people and more than one Peronist angry with the government. ages? From high school kids to activists with many struggles on their plate.

Socialist and internationalist

With thousands and thousands of people already located and the batucada in full swing, We had to present the event to Vanesa Gagliardi, our elected Buenos Aires representative, and to me. To get into the weather, A video was projected with the party's interventions in the struggles of the year. The event was part of twenty that we did throughout the country, from Jujuy to Río Gallegos and from Mendoza to the historic Plaza.

After the greetings from sister organizations from other countries with whom we share the International Socialist League, came the opening speech, by the general secretary of the MST and coordinator of the LIS, Alejandro Bodart. Alejandro reviewed the global capitalist crisis aggravated by the pandemic; polarization and rebellions that cross the world, and the challenge for the revolutionaries, in the heat of those struggles, to build weighty socialist alternatives and to confront the right and the possibilist variants. In his speech, with background view, explained why capitalism is no longer going and hence the urgency and the open possibilities to advance in the fight for a socialist solution. Claiming the steps taken in the construction of the International Socialist League, with a background program and learning from the experiences of organizations of diverse traditions.

Then several adhesions and presences stood out, among them that of our colleague Vilma Ripoll and those of leaders of the parties with whom we make up the FIT Unidad, Delegations of PTS leaders were present with Claudio Dellecarbonara and Guillo Pistonesi, and PO with Néstor Pitrola and Gabriela de la Rosa. We also received videos with greetings from Nicolás del Caño, Romina del Pla and Giordano. The "Swede" Lordkipanidse and other companions from the Cachito Fukman Militant Meeting were present and we received the endorsements of journalist Herman Schiller and María del Carmen Verdú from Correpi.

From struggles to a workers' government

The main social struggles and their protagonists could not be missing from our event.. A) Yes, Delegations went up to the stage and their representatives spoke. Of socio-environmental struggles, together with friendly groups, with the young Jessi Gentile. Of LATAM aeronautical workers against layoffs, represented by Paula Vigna and Martín Tomé. From the taking of Guernica by land to live, with Nahuel Orellana from the MST Teresa Vive. And on the front line of the fight against the pandemic, nursing and all public and private health, with the words of Norma Lezana, leader of the Garrahan professionals, and Carolina Cáceres and Andrea Ramírez, nurses from Tornú and Ramos Mejía respectively and spokespersons for the Association of Nursing Graduates. meantime, the piggy banks of the workers' struggle fund of the Parque de la Costa circulated. We also received greetings from our colleague and deputy from Córdoba Luciana Echevarría.

Then came the closing political speech, in the voice of our young national leaderCele Fierro. Cele started by paying homage to the fallen of the Argentinazo and the 30.000 detained-disappeared colleagues. With the conviction that characterizes her, He exposed the reality of the national government's adjustment behind his story, raised the need for a general strike, highlighted the fight for legal abortion by encouraging a vibrant abortion green and secular orange scarf. And he called, among other things, to strengthen the FIT Unidad by overcoming its weaknesses and current electoral stage., to advance towards a great common political movement and a great party of tendencies that acts in all areas of the class struggle and politics, in the perspective of a workers' government. And he closed by calling to strengthen the MST throughout the country..

As a brooch, with fists raised, flares lit and emotion on the surface, We finished the combative and successful act of the MST at the FIT Unidad singing the verses of La Internacional. As the evening fell, We all returned with the satisfaction of the task accomplished..