Argentina

How The Weapons Of White Supremacy Wiped Out The Afro Argentines

May 18, 2020 the Pan-African Alliance. Educate! Argentina, Colonialism, Racism, White Supremacy

The easiest way to understand a complex system like white supremacy is to see that system in action. When it comes to the multifaceted system that is white supremacy, we should look at a nation that has used the weapons of white supremacy to remove Blacks from their population: Argentina In 80 years, Argentina reduced the Black population from almost half of the overall population to less than 4 percent using very specific weapons of white supremacy. According to records, African slaves first arrived in Argentina in the 1500s. They joined millions of other slaves across the Americas who were forcibly removed from their homelands to toil in Argentina under white masters. Even though there are an estimated 1 million Black Argentines alive today, few claim Black as their race because Africans are perceived to be “undeveloped and uncivilized”.

‘We Need To Unite All The New And Old Insurgencies’

May 13, 2020 Geraldina Colotti, Resumen English. Strategize! Argentina, COVID-19, Neoliberalism, Revolution

Argentina is immersed in a deep economic crisis inherited from the previous government of Macri that handed the country over to transnationals and strengthened the idea of emptying it by massive capital flight abroad. But to be honest, the foreign debt that today the government of Alberto Fernandez is renegotiating downward to end up paying less, is not only a product of the Macri but also from much earlier. It comes from the time when the military dictatorship was in power and since then no government in those 37 years chose not to pay it, and by doing so it always went against the interests of the poor people. What is happening now, however much they want to sweeten our ears, points in the same direction. Within this framework, what to do or not to do with the foreign debt appears as an evil guest of Covid-19, because everything got worse in many ways.

Pandemic And Economic Crisis In Latin America

April 19, 2020 By Revista El Porteño (Chile) - Corriente Socialista Militante (Argentina) - CMI-Chile, Marxist.com. Organize! Argentina, Chile, Neoliberalism, Recession

The coronavirus pandemic is the catalyst that just pushed the economy into a global recession. The capitalist crisis that has shaken the foundations of the world since 2008 is on its way to becoming the most acute, in historical terms. Before the onset of the pandemic, the world economy was so fragile that any accident could have pushed it toward the precipice. The coronavirus gave it that final push. The virus of overproduction, with financial speculation as its inevitable consequence, has infected the cells of the capitalist mode of production. Once again, private property and its legal consequences obstruct the means of production for all of humanity. Already the International Labour Organisation has warned of the loss of 25 million jobs over the next few days.

Eight Days Of Protest Force Reversal Of Cyanide Law In Argentina

January 6, 2020 Mercedes Araujo, Latfem.org. Translated Liz Mason-Deese. Resist! Argentina, Mining, Protests, Reform

For over a week, residents of the Argentine province of Mendoza mobilized, in marches, candlelight vigils, and enormous protests against the provincial government’s decision to overturn Law 7722, which prohibited the use of hazardous chemicals in mining activities. The law, originally passed in 2007, was the result of years of organizing by neighborhood assemblies, community organizations, and groups of agricultural producers in defense of water as a key element of life, and attempting to establish an alternative to the extractivist economic model.

2019 Latin America In Review: Year Of The Revolt of the Dispossessed

December 15, 2019 Roger Harris, Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) Educate! Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Latin America, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Venezuela

A year ago, John Bolton, Trump’s short-lived national security advisor, invoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine making explicit what has long been painfully implicit: the dominions south of the Rio Grande are the empire’s “backyard.” Yet 2019 was a year best characterized as the revolt of the dispossessed for a better world against the barbarism of neoliberalism. As Rafael Correa points out, Latin America today is in dispute. What follows is a briefing on this crossroads.

Teachers And Public Workers In Argentina: Four Months Of Strikes And Pickets

December 4, 2019 Julia Soul and Leandro Rodríguez, Labornotes.org Resist! Argentina, Class Struggle, Strikes, Workers Rights and Jobs

Teachers and public workers in an Argentinian province have been striking, blockading roads, marching by the thousands, occupying buildings, and even attacking and burning the provincial parliament building, in a fight to defend their contracts and their bargained wage increase. For the last four months, these workers in Chubut province battled their provincial government, which is supported by transnational corporations and by the national leadership of the oil workers union—a key political player in the country’s main oil region.

The IMF And Class Power In Argentina

November 10, 2019 By Jason Hirthler, American Herald Tribune Educate! Argentina, Class Struggle, IMF

In the past few weeks in Argentine politics: the administration of Mauricio Macri, the neoliberal handmaiden of global banking elites, was upended in national elections, as the Peronist Alberto Fernandez was swept into office by eight percentage points in what Bloomberg euphemistically called a choice of “left-wing populism” over “pro-market policies.” They’d have done more honestly with Harvey’s description or the “naked calculus of greed” phrase with which scarf-wrapped soothsayer Cornell West once described austerity measures in America.

Latin America President-elect Fernandez Meets Macri As Argentina Faces New Future

October 28, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Create! Argentina, Electoral Politics, Latin America

Argentina's President-elect Alberto Fernandez arrived at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires on Monday for a meeting with outgoing incumbent Mauricio Macri where the two are expected to discuss the potentially tricky transition of power as financial markets watch closely. Peronist Progressive Fernandez swept into power on Sunday, ousting conservative leader Macri in an election result that shifts Latin America's No. 3 economy firmly toward the left amid swirling economic crisis and rising debt fears.

Pink Tide Against US Domination Rising Again In Latin America

October 14, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Newsletter Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico, US Empire, Venezuela

Once again, the left is rising in Latin America as people revolt against authoritarian regimes, many of whom were put in place by US-supported coups. These regimes have taken International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and are under the thumb of international finance, which is against the interests of people. After the embattled President of Ecuador claimed that President Nicolas Maduro was the cause of the massive protests against him, Maduro made clear what was occurring in Latin America, saying: “We have two models: the IMF model which privatizes everything and takes away the people’s rights to health, education and work; and the humanist-progressive model which is emerging in Latin America and has the Bolivarian Revolution at the forefront.”

A Massive Rally By The Revolutionary Socialist Left In Argentina Was A Message To The Powerful

October 10, 2019 By Nathaniel Flakin, Leftvoice.org Resist! Argentina, Electoral Politics, Protests

The largest avenue in the world, the 9 de Julio in the middle of Buenos Aires, was blocked off on Saturday afternoon. Thousands of socialists gathered in front of the Obelisk, Argentina’s national monument, for a rally of the Workers Left Front—Unity (Frente de Izquierda y los Trabajadores—Unididad, or FIT-Unidad). The country’s largest bourgeois newspaper, Clarín, estimated the crowd at 25,000 people. The rally was covered in all of the country’s major media outlets. Argentina’s national elections will take place in three weeks. The current president, Mauricio Macri, suffered a landslide defeat in the primary elections on August 11.

Six Things We Can Learn From The Socialist Left In Argentina

August 20, 2019 By Nathaniel Flakin, Leftvoice.org Strategize! Argentina, Electoral Politics, Left Politics, Revisionism

On Sunday, revolutionary socialists in Argentina got 700,000 votes in the primary elections. The Workers Left Front—Unity (Frente de Izquierda y de los Trabajadores–Unidad) is the most successful electoral project of the revolutionary socialist left anywhere in the world, and it has been for some time. Is it a model that can be emulated? In the United States, we often hear that socialist candidates have no chance. The election laws favor the two parties of capital. Therefore, our only chance is to support the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

History Often Proceeds By Jumps And Zigzags

August 18, 2019 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! Argentina, Democracy, India, Kashmir

As one door sharply bangs shut in Kashmir, another opens in Argentina. That is the nature of our struggles. In 1859, Friedrich Engels wrote, ‘History often proceeds by jumps and zig-zags’. To imagine history as a linear line that moves in a progressive direction is bewilderingly incorrect. It is romantic to believe either that history is conservatively circular – so that change is fundamentally impossible – or that history is progressively linear – so that everything improves in a scientific manner. Neither is plausible. Human history is a struggle between the imagination for a better life and the constraints of the present. Some of these constraints are material, and some are social. Inadequate material conditions and the rigidities of class can hold back human progress.

Opposition Delivers A Blow To Macri In Argentina’s Primary Elections

August 14, 2019 Luis Bruschtein, Resumen-english.org Create! Argentina, Electoral Politics

Yesterday Argentine President Mauricio Macri recognized it was “a bad election” without giving any figures, without explaining why, he did not speak in public to the Argentinean people, rather only to the little group that was in his bunker. But the sound of a spectacular defeat was in the air. It should have been a choice that defined almost nothing because it was only a primary but the intense expectation that vibrated throughout the country made it a litmus test for the government.

In Argentina, Over A Million March In Honor Of Victims Of US-Backed Military Dictatorship

March 27, 2019 By Tanya Wadhwa, Peoplesdispatch.org Resist! Argentina, Dictatorship, Latin America, March, US Imperialism

On the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, over a million Argentinians mobilized to remember the 30,000 victims of the last military dictatorship in Argentina. On March 24, 1976 a US-backed military coup was carried out in Argentina that installed the bloodiest civic-military dictatorship in the history of the country. In 2002 the Argentine Congress declared that this tragic day would be remembered as the National Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice.

Argentine Unions Make X-mas Feast Protest In Front Of Congress

December 26, 2018 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Argentina, Class Struggle, Congress, Electoral Politics, Labor Unions, Protests

Unions and social movements in Argentina are spending Christmas Eve on the steps of Congress to prepare a holiday dinner for those without a home in protest of government austerity measures that are driving up poverty and joblessness. Members of one of Argentina’s largest unions, the Confederation of Workers for the Popular Economy (CTEP), the Excluded Workers Movement (MTE), The Association of State Workers (ATE), along with several other education and transportation unions are setting up on Monday to feed some 2,000 people on the lawn in front of the national congress located in Buenos Aires. "What we want is to end this year that was filled with a lot of struggle...

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