The statement below was issued by the Workers’ Party of Argentina (PO, Partido Obrero). The CWI gives its solidarity to the PO, the piquetero movement and the working class and poor masses struggling against the Milei government.
PO | We refute the accusations against Polo Obrero and the piquetero movement
WE PRESENT THE EVIDENCE THAT PROVES POLITICAL PERSECUTION
Down with the cases that criminalize social protest
The justice system, the government and the pro-government media have made the criminalization process against piquetero movement in general and particularly against Polo Obrero and Eduardo Belliboni a central part of the country’s political agenda. This dossier is a plea against this process. In the first place, it shows their objective of pushing for the liquidation of the independent organization of the most exploited neighborhoods in the country, in order to discipline Argentinian working class. Secondly, because it is a process that could only go forward by trampling on the right to defense through of all kinds of arbitrariness. Thirdly, because the arguments of the Judge and the Prosecutor are based on lies and obvious falsehoods.
It is a process organized from the top of political power, which turn all the resources of the intelligence services, an assembly of pseudo journalists in the pay of the government and a judiciary into a battering ram against the organizations that have been at the forefront of the fight against hunger in the last two decades.
But all lies sooner or later fall under their own weight. In this case, the struggle for the dismissal of the cases against all the comrades goes hand in hand with the struggle to confront a government that is aggravating hunger, misery and the subjugation of the country to the interests of a clique of financial capital and imperialism, against national majorities.
THE STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE OF DISMANTLING PIQUETERO MOVEMENT
Milei’s objective of dismantling the piquetero movement is explicit. Since December 20th, 2023, when the independent piquetero movement, together with the left parties and combative unions and activists, took the streets to confront the government, Milei and Bullrich developed a systematic initiative to break this movement. This policy was the continuity of their electoral campaign, attacking the right to social protest. An attack which manifests today in Roberto de la Cruz Gomez still being in jail for participating in the demonstration against the voting of the reactionary Foundations Law on June 12th.
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