[A-List] On recovered plants in Argentina

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For short: there is, actually, a movement to take factories that have 
been closed down by the owners, and to put them to work under 
workers'management. This is, of course, a healthy and soothing 
perspective: the seeds of socialism in the new situtation. 

Over 100 small and medium-sized factories have passed to workers' 
control this way, some through very tight struggles and even against 
repression. Since on the list I use to strike very heavily on some 
"leftist" groups, I hurry to say now that up to this day the 
intervention of some of these groups in a few plant occupations has 
not been as deletereous as it used to be in the past. We shall see 
what happens later. But, fortunately, the situation generated by the 
December mobilisations has made it impossible for the ruling classes 
to enforce closure of occupied plants on hungry workers by resorting 
to the "right to property". There is no ceiling for that plane to 
take off in current Argentina, where many people cook food
at home for the wretched who wander along the streetwalks of their 
own houses.

The problem with all this movement, however, is the same as with most 
of these wonderful perspectives: they are just a perspective, which 
has not coallesced into a strong, unified, political force which 
might ram against the walls of the establishment and throw them all 
to the dustbin of history.

But, as I already told you some months ago, keep a watchful eye on
distressed Argentina: the seeds of socialism will begin to bear 
fruits here sooner than expected. This movement is, clearly, one of 
those seeds. 

Many of the occupied factories are organized by the Metallurgic 
Union, others are spontaneous movements, still others are somehow 
pumped by political groups. But all of them share a common sign, 
which must be taken into account: the exclusion of the owners who 
fled away from production when things turned hard, and want to return 
now, when things became softer. A recent documentary on the _state 
owned_, official TV Channel 7 stressed this point.

Although the Reconquista-popular list is somehow overcrowded with 
mails on the electoral debate these days, there are some insights on 
this movement, which those who understand Spanish might profit from. 

Because you don't have just plant occupations, which, BTW, have not 
taken place in the imperialist firms up to this day. As an example of 
the latter, on the R-P list you can see history of Nogoyá. The Nestlé 
company, which owns a milk processing plant in Nogoyá, Southern Entre 
Ríos province, has closed it down long ago, and local workers, milk 
producers and shop owners are joining in a cooperative to rent the 
premises from Nestlé and put the plant to work again. This
cooperative is an embryo of national front with a socialist goal, 
where the question that reality begs is "why should we _rent_ that 
plant from these bastards who did not care about us when they closed 
it down?". 

The day this question begins to sound common sense (and I don't know 
if that day is nearby or far away in the future), then the road to 
socialism in Argentina will be paved for safe driving.


Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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"Aquel que no está orgulloso de su origen no valdrá nunca 
nada porque empieza por depreciarse a sí mismo".
Pedro Albizu Campos, compatriota puertorriqueño de todos 
los latinoamericanos.
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