Huge march in Argentina
Socialist Organiser1981 1981-11-12Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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LAST Saturday, hundreds of thousands of workers marched in Buenos Aires in the biggest mass demonstration since the army takeover of 1976. The workers were protesting against unemployment [estimated by union leaders at over 12 per cent in the urban areas] and massive inflation.
The march was called by the General Labour Confederation of trade unions whose top leadership has been forced to respond to the huge anger and militancy rising up in the Argentine working class.
These leaders have long been involved in collaboration with the military diet@ tors, while continually trying to channel the mobilisation and militancy of workers behind the political leadership of Peronism peror was the populist head of state from 1946 to again from 1973-4].
The march follows a series of strike waves in recent months, as the deepening economic crisis and chaos have hammered into the already miserable living standards of the working people. The strikes and the march show the combativity and the growing movement into struggle of the working class _ the only force in Argentine society capable of leading the masses in the overthrow of military dictatorship and the bosses' profit system behind it.
In this life-and-death struggle, the cancer of Peronism in the labour movement will have to be destroyed, along with all the political tendencies of class collaboration.