Re: [A-List] Analysis of A. Woods about Argentina

["Gorojovsky" <Gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

En relación a [A-List] Analysis of A. Woods about Argentina,
el 23 Dec 01, a las 18:31, Jorge Figueiredo dijo:

> In the past few years, general strike
> after general strike has been called by Peronist labour unions, under the
> pressure of the working class.

This is the kernel of a wrong interpretation in an otherwise reasonable report.
The union leaders who have been leading the strikes were not "under the
pressure", but actively voicing the views of the working class. It seems that
for A. Woods no Peronist can be a true representative of the masses, which are,
largely --Peronists!

And who will become Socialists the day they feel that "being Socialist is the
best way of keeping Peronist", that is the day they feel that only through
socialist revolution will the gains of the Peronist age be recovered, enhanced
and turned irreversible.

Failure to understand this is a failure to understand the red line of
revolution that criscrosses Argentinean politics ever since, in 1806, a popular
militia defeated the British Army and began to establish a popular power
independent from Spain --in the name of the King of Spain. This historic
consideration is very important in a country where history is much alive in the
popular movement, and more important yet when we have a provisional President
who (now I can confirm this) descends from a Federal, popular, leader of San
Luis ("Lanza Seca", Commander Juan Saá), who was the Presidential candidate of
the vast civil upheaval of the North and Cuyo against the pro-British regime of
Mitre, an upheaval that was drowned in blood in the most tremendous way but
which helped the heroic Paraguayan people to wage their struggle against the
British-backed Triple Alliance of the oligarchies of Rio, Montevideo and Buenos
Aires. This war is known as the War of the Triple Alliance in mainstream
historiography. Popular historiography calls it the War of the Triple Infamy.

I repeat: failing to grasp this strong current in Argentina is the same as
failing to understand the importance of the Chartists, the Paris Commune, and
the Haymarket crime in the history of the global working class.



Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx


"Orden General del 27 de Julio de 1819".


Compañeros del exercito de los Andes.

...La guerra se la tenemos de hacer del modo que podamos:
sino tenemos dinero, carne y un pedazo de tabaco no nos
tiene de faltar: cuando se acaben los vestuarios, nos
vestiremos con la bayetilla que nos trabajen nuestras mugeres,
y sino andaremos en pelota como nuestros paisanos los indios:
seamos libres, y lo demás no importa nada...

...Compañeros, juremos no dejar las armas de la mano, hasta
ver el país enteramente libre, ó morir con ellas como hombres
de corage.

Jose de San Martín.