[act-ma] 10/23 The Struggles in Argentina and the Prospects for Socialism

[Charlie Welch]

 Boston Mayday writes
*The Struggles in Argentina **and the Prospects for Socialism*

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Hear: Guillermo Kane, reporting from Buenos Aires

In Argentina, the struggles of working people have expanded in recent
months leading to a deepening polarization in the country. Large
mobilizations of unemployed and underemployed workers have staged mass
occupations in Buenos Aires. Strikes have been more frequent. Argentina's
Single Union of Argentine Tire Workers (SUTNA) struck for 5 months and
recently forced the tire companies to increase wages with every increase in
the country’s inflation.

According to the mainstream paper, La Gaceta, this year Argentina has
experienced more than 7,168 pickets and strikes. La Nación, the country’s
largest newspaper predicts more than 10,000 pickets and strikes in total
for the year. These developments are rooted in a strong tradition from the
‘90s, which saw many working-class initiatives, such as occupying factories
and mobilizing mass protests.

Please join with the Boston May Day Coalition to hear Guillermo Kane report
from Buenos Aires on the battles unfolding in Argentina and the prospects
for socialism.
Guillermo Kane is an elected socialist state representative from the
Workers Party-Left Front Unity in the provincial Buenos Aires regional
parliament in Argentina.
In his youth, he participated as an organizer of the unemployed, community
mess halls, and organizer of the National Striker Assemblies of La Matanza
district in 2001, as well as the National Assembly of Workers in the years
2002 and 2005 from the National Piquetero Bloc. He also was a militant of
the Socialist Union Youth and the Organization of High School Students. He
is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Buenos Aires.

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