Argentina: Alejandro Bodart's speech at the MST ceremony
"Our project is called Socialism"
Special greeting to all the friends who accompany us, To the Fit Unit Companions, To all our groups.
We are saying goodbye to a bad year, Very bad for popular workers and sectors.If something was clear this year is that capitalism has nothing positive to offer humanity. The capitalist class is making disasters about nature, destroys forests, wetlands, contaminates water and whole peoples. Create the conditions for mortal diseases such as the one we are suffering from extending and taking the lives of a million and a half and a half, But that still did not end because some countries are already in the third wave. Some calculate that there may be two, Three million more dead. Behind all this is capitalism.
That same social class with their governments has destroyed health systems. He has definanced the scientific research of the State and that is why we had to face this pandemic in such bad conditions. And above these months, To continue guaranteeing their profits, Millions of workers forced them to work without minimal security conditions. Everything to continue enriching banks and companies. The life of workers do not care about the capitalists. They know that they have unemployed reserve armies that they themselves form.
To the point comes the misery of this system, The meanness, that we are seeing it with vaccines, that they already began to distribute for millions in imperialist countries. Even, Five have already seized, six, nine times the population they have. While poor countries are not known when it will come or in what amounts. That is the capitalist system.
Pandemia deepened an economic crisis that comes from before. We had a tremendous expression in 2008. No pandemia, We were going to a huge economic crisis because this system always creates bubbles.It is a speculative system that condemns us to crisis after crisis. Now the pandemic deepened everything. And what do you want now? That the crisis is paid by the same as always: Workers. It is estimated that hundreds of millions will lose their jobs. A third of the world's workers are going to see their salaries reduced. Miles, millions will lose their retirement. We are going to a world where they will want the rule to be labor precariousness.
Our young people do not leave any future because less and less can access the study, to decent work. Or to talk about decent housing. But be careful, When a poor man takes an earthly, There is unleashed through the great media that they are paid in defense of the sacrosanct private property. Not of the private property of the worker who has nothing: They jump as rats to defend privileges, The fortunes that accumulate a small group of capitalists in the world and in our countries.
Now, How was the private property of that 1% that today has the wealth of all humanity? It became exterminating the native peoples in Argentina, In the US, around the world. Taking advantage of the slavery of the peoples of Africa. On the basis of sending us to fratricidal wars. Stealing wealth to our peoples. Killing the working class hungry, overwhelming it. Discussing the famous fiscal deficits that involve stealing health and education budget. Not giving us access to housing. Everything to accumulate those who want more and more.
Against this they began to raise the peoples and that is why we are seeing rebellions from one side of the planet. In France, The yellow vests. Our Chilean brother people ... in Ecuador, Peru, Guatemala, Colombia. We have seen the people of Lebanon, To Iran, In Iraq, Beelorruse ... because they come for everything. The capitalists, To guarantee the profits, They will intensify the attack on workers and the people. But the peoples are going to lift and resist. And space for the left will grow. He will put us before historical opportunities and that's why we are doing these acts. To start discussing the new world that comes, our proposals and how we do so that in that world the left grows. It will be considered to overcome the great weakness that workers and peoples have: The absence of a revolutionary direction with mass weight.
Now, This weakness does not prevent great triumphs from being achieved. The fight, for example, He managed to stagger regimes that had been built based on constitutions bathed in blood ... such as the Pinochet Constitution in Chile and the Fujimori regime in Peru ... but eye, Those partial triumphs if they do not continue and remain only in some constitutional reforms will not take us to triumph. If a mass movement sector fails to understand that, To really change, Not only does it need to throw but put something different, Then things can go back.
Peoples are throwing governments. In Peru they turned to two governments in a few days. Today is 19 from December, us too, does 19 years we throw a government and in a week we throw several. They are important triumphs, We must claim Argentinazo and our martyrs. But by failing to put a government of workers, the regime, The system, It was recycled and that's why we are here, 19 years later and we keep fighting for things to change seriously.
The only true triumph is the socialist revolution, throw out this system. For that, We need to build a revolutionary direction. More conditions are created in the world, But we have to be clear that this is the great exit if we really want to change things ...
The crisis is generating the emergence of conservative and right sectors. In almost all countries xenophobic expressions arise, racists, Authoritarian, like Trump, Bolsonaro, or with other manners like Macri. The bourgeoisie prepares those sectors to go for everything. Now, We must be aware that the anger generated by these sectors causes important turns to the left, They start looking to the left. But, Let's look at what happens in the US. It is a symbol of this new era. Not just a black and popular rebellion that threatened the empire at home: That rebellion was preceded by a left turn in most youth. And that's what is coming. They come fighting, But in those struggles the conscience will advance, whole stripes are going to start looking to the left. Now, To prevent masses and workers from left, sectors that are painted from different. Some are called progressive, Some reformists want to convince us that to face the only way out is to unite behind another capitalist project. They want to make us believe that to face Trump, You have to support the Imperialist Biden ...
They want to make us believe that there are bad capitalists, brutal, But that there are good capitalists who can lead us to a different world. Some say there is human capitalism, A green capitalism. They are all verses! We have to face brutal rights, But also to lollipop vendors, of smoke, who want to make us drag behind other capitalists who would be the least bad. And that, When they govern, We quickly realize that they become the main enemy of workers and peoples.
In this imperialist stage there are no two capitalisms: There is only one. There is no welfare state or the famous rule of law. We have to get rid of all those phraseologies that impose us from the ruling classes so that instead of opting for a clear left out, revolutionary, socialist, The workers get entangled ...
Our role as revolutionary socialists is to unmask all these sectors. To the reformists. To bureaucrats who act in the labor movement to defend their interests. To the false leftists who join the capitalist governments. Patiently explain to workers that we cannot fall into the system traps; that we need to lift our own project, What is called socialism.There is no other proposal for workers other than the socialist revolution, and a government government and the people.
There is no way that we advance to solve our problems behind employer variants. The only way is to raise an independent project. Where the whole society, Starting with the economy, be planned to solve the needs of the working people. Where there is a true democracy and not the false democracy we have. Where the capitalist class, That is lowercase, It has all the media ... they manage the institutions. They have the monopoly of force because they control armies, police, The gendarmerie. That is not democracy. Most do not handle anything.Everything is handled by a minority, that our rib is enriched.
We have to go to a society where we decide between us. A company that works as an assembly. Where do we decide what to produce and what does not, What to export and import, All based on our needs and not those of a handful of entrepreneurs. A society where we decide what budget we are going to give to health, to education, to housing ...
We need to end once and for all with speculation and financial timba. Nationalize banking and foreign trade under workers' control, so that all riches are going to create industry, job, Technological sovereignty.
We need a project to create decent work. To distribute work hours among all so that no one is left without working. But also go to a society where every time, Taking advantage of technological advances, It works less. Where we are getting lighter and we have more free time. To dedicate ourselves to travel, To educate us, To art, to sport, cum. Because life is beautiful, It is worth living. We have to work to enjoy it ...
Such a project can only be done by a government of workers. Now, Many ask us: Is it possible to do this? It's possible, or if we were born poor we are screwed, we will always be poor, What do they tell us? The sacrosanct private property that makes the 1% concentrate all factories, banks, Business, land, It is something immovable? Is it impossible to go to socialism, To a class without classes? Is it impossible to live better? No, We believe it is possible. And what is necessary, Besides.
Mira's, I believe that slaves a hundred years ago wondered if it was possible to be free. Or also the servants, In feudalism, They would ask: Is it possible to ever get the feudal man, that even had the right of pernada? As it was possible to get rid of slavery and feudalism, It is possible to get rid of capitalism.With struggle and organization we can defeat capitalism and go to another type of society.
Capitalism is leading us to barbarism. Is destroying nature and calling into question the very existence of the human race. We are convinced that humanity will not let us drag us towards barbarism and extinction. That there will be many struggles. And that in those struggles will be gained aware of the need to do something different.
But to reach that society, In addition to fighting, We have to organize. Build matches that fight for this. Stop following political forces that raise us that problems within capitalism can be solved. We have to do our own matches, Great matches such as the MST or as the matches that are doing each of our classmates in the countries where the lis acts.
And the fight is international ... capitalism is worldwide. We are not going to defeat the workers of the different countries divided. That is why it is necessary to build, In addition to national parties, An international organization. That is why to finish I want to refer to the International Socialist League. In a short time, Since May of last year we found the lis a handful of companions from a few countries, We have seen our organization grow and today we are already on all continents. This is a sign that in all countries there is a search for different alternatives. It is a sample that it can grow. However, To take advantage of the opportunity it is necessary to raise a project that is not opportunistic or sectarian. Not dogmatic, As unfortunately some leftist organizations propose us.
Lis grows because it is a project to really unite the revolutionaries, Not to talk about joining the revolutionaries. It is a project to work with classmates who come from different traditions. To build taking first what unites us to the revolutionaries of the world and to learn to discuss differences, They are logical, that we have the popular workers and sectors after so many years of being scattered. LIS is a project to learn from the other. We are learning from Pakistan's companions, They have a huge organization in a country with tremendous problems; We are learning from Türkiye's companions, of Australia, of Lebanon, from Europe, of Latin America.
LIS is a project to listen to the other, Something that is missing many times in revolutionary organizations, that make another revolutionary their enemy instead of considering the need to listen to it to learn. Because we need the other to change the situation. We are not going to change the system separately: We need the unity of the working class, The unity of the revolutionaries. Learn to work among all of us if we really want to change things.
The working class is one and without borders.Let's join behind a project like the one proposed by the MST and the Lis. Let's work for a different world, that is possible and necessary. If we do not stop the capitalist beast before it takes us to barbarism, We may not leave any kind of future to our children and grandchildren.
Long live the international working class! Long live internationalism! Long live the MST! Long live the International Socialist League! Long live the Left Unit! Long live socialism!
I wish you all, of all my heart, that the best possible parties pass and that next year we meet again to continue fighting. Thank you so much.
