Reuters (with additional material by AP and AFP). 25 and 26 January
2002. Thousands of Argentines Protest Over Cash Crisis.
BUENOS AIRES - Tens of thousands of Argentines, from middle class
businessmen to the unemployed, took to streets on Friday to bang pots
and pans in the biggest protest yet against a new government struggling
to end a massive financial crisis.
Karl: The masses can go on strike as much as they like, bang billie cans
or whatever. It is no substitute for class politics. While the working
class remain tied to reformist philosophy their struggle will
inevitably head towards defeat --as has repeatedly happened in the past.
Where is there to go? Capitalism cannot deliver. Capitalism in Argentina
cannot reform conditions in such a way as to improve living standards
and conditions for workers and sections of the middle class. The only
solution is the abolition of capitalism and its replacement with
communism. This is the line that communists must take concerning the
mass popular mobilisation in Argentina. Otherwise the mobilisation will
merely mean sustained instability entailing, more pain and bloodshed for
workers or an extreme right wing crackdown. The only alternative for
workers is communism.
The petty bourgeois radicals that suggest otherwise are left
counter-revolutionaries whose bourgeois role it is to disarm the working
class from the right.
Regards
Karl Carlile (Communist Global Group)
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