AUT: Transitional programme in Argentina

[Scott Hamilton <s_h_hamilton@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had to look this up for another list and I thought
I'd put it here, as an example of the use of the
transitional method today.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Argentina_Solidarity/message/1667

It is the resolutions and plan of action of the Second
National Assembly of Employed and Unemployed Workers
in Argentina, held on the 22 and 23 of June last year.
Here explicit calls for revolution are mixed with
demands that capitalism cannot grant, many of which
might as well have been lifted straight from Trotsky's
Transitional Programme (a programme which was itself
of course lifted from the history of workers'
struggles).

If the transitional method is only a way for
Trotskyist intellectuals to lie to workers, then we
would not expect transitional demands to be put
forward by a mass meeting of workers. Perhaps the
meeting was manipulated by Trotskyists? This seems
unlikely, because the largest and most influential
Trotskyist group, the Workers' Party, actually put
forward a programme at odds with what the assembly
came up with.

For instance, the WP called for a constituent assembly
to go with the slogan 'all of them out!', but the
assembly appears to have opted for something
altogether more radical in calling for a workers'
government (based on the organs of workers' power
which the PO says are insufficiently developed?)
According to Dave B (the author of the article I
posted a while back on Empire and Argentina), the
workers in Argentina are spontaneously putting forward
transitional demands and calling for revolution, while
many of the ostensibly Trotskyist groups are following
the example of the WP's stagism.

Cheers
Scott


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