Argentina The FIT Unit, the confluence and the square against the background
BySergio Garcia
The magnitude of the mobilization last Saturday 11 a Plaza de Mayo against the IMF and the payment of the foreign debt, motorized by the Frente de Izquierda Unity summoning more than one hundred organizations to carry it out together, It was undoubtedly a central political fact of the last days. An event that did not go unnoticed neither by locals nor strangers. And he rightfully won the top brass of last weekend's news.
A political success, a Plaza against foreign debt
The entire arch of the mainstream media had to refer to this day of struggle on Saturday and Sunday that had its epicenter in Plaza de Mayo, but that at the same time was national, with important actions throughout the country. One way or another, the strong presence that filled the Plaza and the surrounding streets had to be highlighted.
The enormous mobilization and show of social force against the Fund was the product of the confluence and unitary convocation of so many political organizations, social, workers and human rights, marking a path of unity in the fight that is very correct. At the same time such a common action, It also highlighted the articulating and prominent role of the Frente de Izquierda Unity, who was the convener that made it possible to begin to build this initiative of struggle and unity, and a unitary space against the IMF that will have continuity. Thus, the largest sample of political and social mobilization against the payment of the foreign debt and the breaking of the agreement with the IMF was achieved.. An immensely progressive fact that placed the left in the foreground of the national political debate.
If this could be done, It is due not only to the success of the FIT-U in having made an open call, but also to the undeniable reality of the leap from this front in the last elections, positioning itself as the third national force. It is that place won in the national political scene that places it in the possibility and responsibility of taking the initiative, to set a perspective and to open calls and appeals to various sectors. Something very correct and indispensable in the fight against the IMF and also in other political and social struggles.
The government and the street
The scale that this call was taking from the previous weeks, even affected the forces of the government front, who have been debating what kind of agreement to make with the IMF and suddenly they found the horizon of a Plaza de Mayo full of workers and young people, but against the joint agreement and the payment of an illegal and fraudulent debt.
The government reacted days before calling for Friday 10 to a mobilization on the anniversary of the return of democracy, trying not to lose the street or the square. Turning to Lula, Mujica and musical bands to guarantee a strong presence with CFK and Alberto Fernández. Thus they managed to appear with a political axis to dispute, but at the same time they did not manage to obscure in anything the huge anti-IMF demonstration and opposition to the government on the left, the next day. Which was starred by tens of thousands and followed with attention and sympathy by thousands and thousands, including sectors of the government's own social base.
It happens that the two squares, one day apart, they also have different programs and perspectives. Some journalists related to the government try to show the two days as progressive, Nevertheless, the reality is undeniable; in the government square it was reaffirmed to agree with the IMF and pay a scandalous debt. In the square on the left and the FIT Unidad, the only political and social voice against this fraud and a proposal to break up was raised in a unified manner.. There are two ways, and only one, The one on the left, is an alternative to a fit and submission model.
The official discourse of the Frente de Todos, says they are going to agree with the IMF but without adjustment, but with an economic plan so that first there is growth and then pay and honor the debt. Such an idea does not withstand a deep analysis. First, because there is adjustment since the first month of the government of the Frente de Todos. Every month that inflation does not give way, every salary deterioration, every health budget, impaired or under-executed education or welfare, it's a hard fit in the facts. To which is added that only in this 2021 In addition, the IMF was paid more than 5000 million dollars that should have been used to respond to social needs. Millions of working families live in this reality, with the sinister endorsement of the union bureaucracy of the CGT and the leaders of the CTA's. The rest is fantasy.
Adding that the motto of Guzman and Fernández of "growing first to be able to pay" is also a non-sovereign proposal and against the country.. Because it means that everything we do to grow, It will also be used to pay illegitimate debt. At the end of the road, everything leads to the coffers of the IMF. Who asks, and most likely achieve, some reforms and fiscal adjustment targets. It will agree with the government and find in Congress the support of the Together for Change bloc, de Milei, Espert and many others. Only the Left Front Unit will reject this new delivery.
Where are we going?
After the huge mobilization against the IMF and the payment of the foreign debt, two paths are reinforced. On the one hand, the government will continue with its negotiations until an agreement is reached with the IMF that, one way or another, will tie our country to its economic designs and goals.
At the same time, the strong political and social articulation built from the open call of the FIT Unidad, will debate how to continue this political and social struggle. While deputies from the Frente de Todos like Santoro, travel the media explaining that there is no relationship of forces to not pay the Fund, the enormous unitary mobilization built from the left is more than evident proof that there is plenty of social force to embark on a truly independent and sovereign path, break with the submission model of international credit organizations. It is not millions of working families and youth who do not want to break with the IMF, If not, the government is responsible for the ties, by privileging the agreement, submission and full payment of the debt contracted by Macri.
Faced with this, from the Frente de Izquierda Unidad and the MST we call to continue in the street against the entire multi-year plan, adjustment and payment to the IMF. Towards this objective, our party has been promoting the need for a strong political nomination from our front., the need to generate more calls and spaces for confluence, and along that path we have been strong protagonists in promoting this unity against the Fund, providing one of the main columns of the march to Plaza de Mayo, with several thousand companions in the column of the MST. Next week a new meeting of the FIT-U will come with all the organizations with whom we made the common mobilization to Plaza de Mayo. There we will discuss how to continue this fight, what new steps to take. Everything at the service of facing the overall adjustment plan in the street. And on this path, continue to strengthen the political struggle against all the parties of the system and the regime., For which it is necessary to strengthen the Left Front Unity and postulate it thoroughly in front of millions of workers and youth. Opening channels and more calls within the framework of our anti-capitalist and socialist program. Days of the twentieth anniversary of the Argentinazo of 2001, The best tribute to that revolutionary feat is to thoroughly prepare the social and political struggles that are coming in the 2022, promoting each concrete fight and fighting to transform the left into a power option for millions. In that we are.
