And also:
Argentina Independent Media Centre web-site.
Argentinazo: a New Stage of the World Revolution--a Statemeent by the Movement for the Refoundation of the Fourth International. In Russian In Ukrainian
The left organizations taking part in the meeting issued the following document stating their common interpretation of the present political situation and the tasks to be carried out in order to overcome it:
DECLARATION
The Popular Uprising Ended With De la Rua and Cavallo
We Don't Want More of the Same
The people and workers of Argentina brought down the government of De la R*a and Cavallo by taking to the streets. This is gigantic popular victory, facing a crisis which resulted in the cutting of wages, the freezing of the people' s savings and the generalized bankruptcy of the public finances. The De la R*a and Cavallo, the Menem and Duhalde, the Ruckauf, Puerta and Rodr*guez Sa* are responsible for the social catastrophe and for the social and the economic disorganization which are destroying the lives of millions of Argentineans. The parties controlling the Legislative Assembly are also responsible for this disaster. They have neither authority nor capacity for forming a new government, and still less for carrying out the final phase of the Cavallo plan.
It is against this that the people rebelled, taking to the streets, blocking roads, occupying workplaces, and assaulting the centers of power. Precisely because of that, we repudiate and reject the re- implantation of the martial law and the attempt to continue the bloody repression against the struggling Argentinean people. We ask for the judgment and punishment of those responsible for the massacre and for freedom for all prisoners.
The Argentina of the banks and the great capitals is bankrupt: this year the harvest reached records historical levels and at the same times there are millions of hungry people, the productive apparatus lies idle and the mass of unemployed has reached unprecedented levels. It is the terminal state of a system of exploitation, of an economic, social and political organization. ˇEnough!
The organizations listed below declare that there is a way out; but it is incompatible with those generating chaos in the interest of imperialism, of financial capital and of the national and foreign capitalist monopolies That is the main point. Neither the dolarization nor the devaluation advanced by the dominant sectors will take us out of this never-ending suffering. These are just different ways of carrying out new confiscations of the product of our labor.
They must all go. We have to end, not only with the De la Rua – Cavallo but also with the Rodr*guez Sa*, and all the parties and provincial governors who seek an agreement with the IMF robbers. They have to pay for the crisis: the bankers, the corporations of the great capitalists, the monopolies that benefited from the privatizations, the robbers of the state patrimony. It is necessary to nationalize the baking system, to put an end to the freezing of salaries and savings of the workers and even of the small producers and traders, and to freeze instead the huge funds of the great thieves which have already taken out of the country 150 billion dollars. All the privatized services must be renationalized and payment of the foreign debt must be stopped. On this basis we must reorganize the economy, and under a national plan drawn by the workers set in motion the paralyzed production.
In order to do that we need the struggling people to deliberate and organize. We call for the election of an assembly or national meeting of employed and unemployed workers, including the piqueteros movement, the combative sectors, the left parties and all those who are fighting against the present economic system. This is an indispensable requisite in order to structure a power that will rise against the decomposition of the present power. Other Argentina: not that of the Peronistas, of the Alianza, of the bankrupt pseudo- progressives, but the Argentina of the workers, which will expropriate our eternal expropriators.
FOR A POPULAR AND WORKERS GOVERNMENT
No to the government of the Peronistas and other accomplices of the system
Down with the MARTIAL LAW in the Nation and the Provinces
NO TO THE IMF
NO PAYMENT OF THE FOREIGN DEBT
NATIONALIZATION OF THE BANKS
RE-STATIZATION OF THE PENSION FUNDS
FULL SUPPORT FOR THE WORKERS STRUGGLES
FOR A NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE PLAN OF STRUGGLE LEADING TO THE OVERTHROW OF THE SYSTEM
LIBERTY TO ALL THE PRISONERS OF THE POPULAR STRUGGLE. LIBERTY TO AL*, CASTELLS AND OTHER INCARCERATED WORKERS. ABOLITION OF ALL THE CHARGES AGAINST THEM.
THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS ADD THEIR SIGNATURES
Partido Obrero (PO) Workers Party
Izquierda Unida (PC – MST) United Left (Partido Comunista Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores)
Liga Socialista Revolucionaria (LSR) Socialist Revolutionary League
Frente Obrero Socialista (FOS) Socialist Workers Front