While Javier Milei’s government deepens austerity and labor precarization, and Jorge Macri pushes an educational reform and persecution against the most vulnerable sectors, the Garrahan Hospital and the teachers’ union Ademys have launched a proposal that promises to shake up the political and social landscape of Buenos Aires City.
It involves the creation of a large coordinating body for all of Buenos Aires City, seeking to unite all sectors fighting against employer and repressive policies. The initiative, promoted by the Agrupación Marrón Salud and the Corriente 9 de Abril, aims to articulate subway workers, telephone workers, state employees, scientists, teachers, students, piquetero movements, human rights organizations, environmentalists, and the women’s and dissidents’ movement.
“Milei’s austerity deepens precarization, while health and education struggles awaken sympathy towards the left,” the groups stated. “We propose setting up a large coordinating body to intervene in the class struggle with more force, against every employer attack and to confront the policies of Milei and Jorge Macri.”
The proposal arises within the framework of the open debate in the Workers’ Left Front – Unity (FITU) on how to transform the strength of struggles into a political alternative. From Garrahan and Ademys, they argue that it is necessary to “coordinate, organize, and strengthen struggles” and build an alternative that goes beyond traditional unions and bureaucracies.
“Unions accept the division between permanent and contract workers, employed and unemployed, natives and immigrants. You cannot look the other way while they haggle over raises below inflation and abandon thousands who are left out of the system,” they denounce.
One of the central axes of the coordinating body will be the fight against the labor reform that the national government is trying to impose, and against the City’s adherence to Article 24, which seeks to limit the right to strike. It also aims to confront the persecution of street vendors, homeless people, and migrants, as well as the forced evictions promoted by the Buenos Aires City government.
“Jorge Macri wants to set up his own ICE like Donald Trump. This cannot be normalized. Organized workers must take up the defense of the most vulnerable sectors,” they warn.
The coordinating body proposes building on existing struggle experiences, such as the coordinating body against evictions, and adding all sectors that want to fight, without impositions or “labels” that leave anyone out. “We can start with a table with each of all these sectors and aim to bring together all activists, delegates, and anyone who wants to fight, to coordinate so that each struggle triumphs and mobilize thousands against Javier Milei and Jorge Macri’s labor reform,” they conclude.
Para mí estos vagos del Garrahan y Ademys son unos ñoquis que no quieren laburar. Me parece que Milei y Macri tienen razón en ajustarlos. Esto huele a excusa para no ponerse la camiseta argentina. Yo creo que menos política y más laburo, vagonetas de mierda.
Para mí esto es histórico, los pibes del Garrahan y los docentes juntos contra estos hdp de Milei y Macri. Basta de ajuste y represión, la lucha es una sola. Vamos a pararles el carro a estos vendepatria. Unidad de los de abajo y al frente carajo.