A-Infos (en) Argentina, Position on the national context - "DO NOT LEAVE THE STREET, FACING ELECTORAL DISPERSION" (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 "We do not believe that the essential issue is ultimately to vote or not to 
vote. What matters is what is done and not what is voted for. What defines it is 
not the attitude on an isolated Sunday at the end of November, each one putting 
pieces of paper in a hole inside a secret room... What defines is what is done, 
and how it is done and why it is done , all the days that precede and all those 
that follow that folkloric Sunday... Only through direct action can a strong 
people be forged. ---- Like the social conquests, the individual, trade union and 
political liberties that exist in our country must be defended inch by inch. How 
they were conquered Through the direct action of the workers and the advanced 
sectors... This has nothing to do with "defending democracy", with defending the 
regime. It is necessary to defend the freedoms and conquests of the people, 
deepen them, broaden them, give them full social meaning. If the people back 
down, they will be undermined and violated, no matter how much of a "progressive" 
and "enlightened" Parliament there is.
...Resisting reaction in all fields: this is how a strong people is forged... 
Organizing their power, exercising it from the urban and rural unions, from the 
neighborhood leagues, from the popular nuclei, from the forces of the left. 
Exerting direct action, the people, the people, stars in the political life of 
the country. And joins.
...This is how the class struggle acquires shape and dimension. This is how the 
conditions are created for radical change for the essential revolutionary 
transformation."
Gerardo Gatti
We come from a stage of brutal deepening of the post-COVID19 social and economic 
crisis. Already at the end of the government of Alberto and Cristina Fernández we 
find as a general framework the agreement with the IMF that keeps the government 
under the command of the international organization, and along with this the 
acceleration of the inflationary process in the country, which has been going on 
for at least ten years, although never on scales similar to the current level. 
Meanwhile, the government is going through an institutional and political crisis 
that keeps the Frente de Todos fragmented and without the capacity to establish 
strong public policies regarding the economic direction. This is a very hostile 
situation and serious attacks on the living conditions of those below, where our 
income is strongly affected to cover basic needs such as food, health, housing, etc.
- The economic crisis is deepening, year-on-year inflation of over 100%, falling 
wages, an increase in basic basket products and services. Loss of purchasing 
power for the salaried sectors and even worse for the most precarious. This 
exponentially increases the cost of living in poor neighborhoods across the country.
- The government is absolutely subordinated to the IMF for the external debt 
contracted. The entire ruling class agrees to follow that program, what falls 
outside of those guidelines are mere nuances of style. Being a clear 
manifestation of the presence of Yankee imperialism in our country.
- The extractivist model is also advancing as a farce of a solution, with 
continental projects such as the IIRSA plan (Integration of the South American 
Regional Infrastructure) that accentuates and enlarges the sacrifice zones, 
clearing, monocultures, mining exploitation, lithium extraction, fracking, 
overcrowded farms, pesticides, manipulation of river beds, expansion of cities 
eliminating wetlands, among many other destructive atrocities of nature and 
ecosystems. All this even without generating significant jobs or much less 
reactivating the industry.
- It was also possible to observe the increase in foreign exchange benefits for 
financial sectors and agro-exporters, all currency flighters and large speculators.
- In this scenario, the large supermarket chains, price remarkers, hold the 
families of our country hostage.
- We were also able to see a brutal adjustment in the public areas and social 
support policies. Proof of this is the cut in health, the attacks on public 
education or the drop in social plans for the sectors hardest hit by the crisis.
- The political persecution of social fighters persists and deepens, especially 
evidenced in the arrest of Mapuche militants in Patagonia such as Facundo Jones 
Huala, the repression of environmentalists in Santa Fe, or the attempts to 
discipline unions, with threats of removals of legal representation, discounts 
for days of unemployment or even with arrests and imprisonment as were the cases 
of the Rosario dock workers.

This 2023 is the year of elections in Argentina and the entire political arc of 
those above tries to impose the discussion of the electoral thread on the media 
agenda. We find an open scenario, of crisis of the coalitions and electoral 
fronts. On the one hand, a fragmented Frente de Todos that evidences the 
speculations among the most Albertist and Christian sectors, although the figure 
of Massa also seeks his political gain after having established himself in the 
Ministry of Economy. The government front has demonstrated its complete inability 
to resolve the economic issue with unstoppable inflation, in an obvious failure 
before its electorate. In this framework, the internal disputes have more to do 
with getting rid of said failure and maintaining a certain quota of votes in 
order to continue keeping their apparatus alive, than for reasons of ideological 
political content. On the other hand, the Cambiemos coalition, which is more 
concerned with resolving its internship than with solving the social problems 
that they themselves helped to generate in their government. Until now, the one 
who took the first step was the Head of Government of the capital, the political 
center of this front, otherwise known as a adjuster and neoliberal. On the other 
hand, we view with concern the rise of reactionary and ultra-liberal sectors such 
as Milei's who seek to channel popular discontent towards the traditional 
politics that has impoverished our people in recent years. While those at the top 
discuss candidacies, the outlook seems to be getting worse every moment.
The stage is open, and popular organizations are far from seeing a way out or 
progress through elections, in a context where precariousness, violence from drug 
trafficking in neighborhoods, hunger, without a life project for our kids.
Among the hostility of the context, despite the advance of individualism and 
fragmentation, some processes of struggles continue and can deepen, if there is a 
commitment to unity in the street. This is the case of struggles for wages and 
working conditions, such as the imposing tire strike, bank strikes, public 
health, among others. Or the progress in conquests of feminist struggles against 
patriarchal violence or like the great mobilizations that forced the approval of 
the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy. For all this, we understand that in 
Argentina there is a need to bring to workplaces, places of study, neighborhoods, 
discussion about our living conditions as popular sectors, to counteract the 
smokescreen that those above want to impose with the electoral circus. , 
strengthen mobilization and combat the fragmentation of sectoral claims to defend 
the needs of the popular sectors.
There is no way out through elections or parliament to resolve the terrible 
situation in which the popular sectors are sunk. Returning to those concepts of 
comrade Gatti, we reaffirm that only the organization and the struggle in the 
street, regardless of class, are the tools that we have as a people to defend 
what is ours and move towards better living conditions. We have plenty of 
experience to understand that governments pass and hunger, misery and repression 
remain. We call on all the comrades who, being part of the popular and worker 
sectors, still harbor some hope in the electoral process, not to abandon the 
fight in the streets. To continue deepening the organization from below in the 
places of work, study, in our neighborhoods and continue the fight from class 
independence whoever governs, whoever wins at the polls wins.

Anarchist Organization of Córdoba - OAC
Rosario Anarchist Federation - FAR
Anarchist Organization of Santa Cruz - OASC
Anarchist Organization of Tucumán - OAT

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