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20th December 2003, 03:18
Press Communiqué
As each hour passes the December 20 5PM unity rally in Plaza de Mayo
gains strength. The savings account holders and mortgage debtors have
confirmed their participation, they will march at the side of the column
to be formed by the popular assemblies. There are now almost 20
piqueteros organizations that will be participating together with the
presidency of the FUBA (university students federation), the most combative
trade union organizations in the country and organizations of struggle of
all kinds, such as the MOCASE of Santiago del Estero, the Zanón factory
and the MTD of Neuquén which has recently suffered repression.
The rally for political independence from the government is growing,
and the pro-government piqueteros have become isolated. Those in struggle
join together to hold on high all the unfinished tasks of the
Argentinazo. Raising on high "All of them must go", an end to labor
flexibilization, jail for all those on the take, and an end to penalization of the
people's struggle. Something we will gain by breaking with the IMF,
with the privatizing companies, the capitalist cartels and the bankers
that have managed and continue to manage all the resorts of power.
With the central slogans of the unity rally (wages, jobs, stop
repression and impunity, non-payment of the foreign debt, no to the
Kirchner-IMF pact, for another December 19-20, for a government of the workers and
people), 20 rallies will be held all over the country:
Resistencia, 19/12 10am Government House (Casa de Gobierno)
Mendoza, 19/12 5pm Government House (Casa de Gobierno)
Santa Fe capital, 19/12 5pm
Rosario, 19/12 12 noon Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Comercio)
Córdoba, 19/12 Patio Olmos 6pm
Caleta Olivia, 19/12 6pm
Río Gallegos, 19/12 6pm
Comodoro Rivadavia, 19/12 6pm
Tucumán, 20/12 Plaza Independencia 5pm
Catamarca, 20/12 Pza 25 de Mayo 5pm
Salta Capital, 20/12, 5pm
Orán, 20/12 5pm
Tartagal, 20/12 5pm
San Juan, 20/12 Casa de Gobierno
Neuquén, Monumento San Martín 19/12,5pm
San Pedro, Jujuy, 20/12 5pm
Bahía Blanca, 19/12 Plaza Central
Mar del Plata, 20/12 Pza San Martín
Olavarría, 20/12 Plaza Central
THE ORGANIZATIONS CALLING FOR THIS EVENT HAVE REACHED A CONSENSUS ON
THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENT OF SLOGANS THAT WILL BE READ ALOUD AT VARIOUS
POINTS DURING THE RALLY:
NO CONFIDENCE IN THE KIRCHNER GOVERNMENT
1) Stop repression and impunity. Dropping of all charges against all
those who struggle. Trial and punishment for all those materially,
intellectually and politically responsible for the victims of December 19-20,
those of June 26, and for all those who have fallen. No to the attack
of the government against the piqueteros and the left, defense of the
popular assemblies, of the organizations of the workers movement and of
all the organizations of the people in struggle. Withdrawal of frontier
guard troops from the neighborhoods.
2) Jail to those on the take and not for those who struggle. Jail to De
la Rúa, his cabinet and all those involved in the bribes in the Senate.
Annulment of the ATM card [labor reform] law, and annulment of all
collective bargaining agreements signed while it has been in force, by the
bosses, the trade union bureaucracy and whoever was in the government.
All of them must go.
3) For a minimum wage of 800 pesos. For a wage equivalent to the basket
of family needs, for all the workers, private and public, working and
pensioned. Restitution of the 82 per cent for the pensioners and
duplication of the amount of the work plans. Extension of the subsidies to all
the unemployed.
4) Annulment of labor flexibilization, repeal of all labor reforms,
free collective bargaining agreements on the basis of delegates elected in
General Assemblies of all the unions. Out with the trade union
bureaucracy.
5) Nationalization without indemnity of the AFJP's (private pension
funds), restitution of the employer's contributions, provisional control
by the workers and pensioners. For a PAMI (social security system)
directed and administered by its real owners, the pensioners and workers,
with no interference by the state.
6) Real jobs through respect for the 8-hour working day, distribution
of the working hours, re-opening of the closed down factories under
workers administration, national plan of public works and popular housing.
7) Return of the savings to the savings account holders in its original
currency, to be carried out by the banks. No to mortgage foreclosures
on housing and small properties. Land, seed and tools for the peasants
under control of the workers and users.
8) Re-nationalization of the privatized companies under workers
administration, no utility rate hikes. Social rates for the unemployed and
workers under the poverty line.
9) No to the Kirchner-IMF pact. Non-payment of the foreign debt. Break
with the IMF and the financial organizations and the imperialist banks.
10) No to the FTAA and no to the Mercosur, for the socialist unity of
Latin America. No to the plan Colombia and to the Aguila (Eagle) III
operation. Down with the blockade against Cuba. Yankees out of Latin
America. Imperialims out of Iraq.
11) For a government of the Workers and the People.
As each hour passes the December 20 5PM unity rally in Plaza de Mayo
gains strength. The savings account holders and mortgage debtors have
confirmed their participation, they will march at the side of the column
to be formed by the popular assemblies. There are now almost 20
piqueteros organizations that will be participating together with the
presidency of the FUBA (university students federation), the most combative
trade union organizations in the country and organizations of struggle of
all kinds, such as the MOCASE of Santiago del Estero, the Zanón factory
and the MTD of Neuquén which has recently suffered repression.
The rally for political independence from the government is growing,
and the pro-government piqueteros have become isolated. Those in struggle
join together to hold on high all the unfinished tasks of the
Argentinazo. Raising on high "All of them must go", an end to labor
flexibilization, jail for all those on the take, and an end to penalization of the
people's struggle. Something we will gain by breaking with the IMF,
with the privatizing companies, the capitalist cartels and the bankers
that have managed and continue to manage all the resorts of power.
With the central slogans of the unity rally (wages, jobs, stop
repression and impunity, non-payment of the foreign debt, no to the
Kirchner-IMF pact, for another December 19-20, for a government of the workers and
people), 20 rallies will be held all over the country:
Resistencia, 19/12 10am Government House (Casa de Gobierno)
Mendoza, 19/12 5pm Government House (Casa de Gobierno)
Santa Fe capital, 19/12 5pm
Rosario, 19/12 12 noon Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Comercio)
Córdoba, 19/12 Patio Olmos 6pm
Caleta Olivia, 19/12 6pm
Río Gallegos, 19/12 6pm
Comodoro Rivadavia, 19/12 6pm
Tucumán, 20/12 Plaza Independencia 5pm
Catamarca, 20/12 Pza 25 de Mayo 5pm
Salta Capital, 20/12, 5pm
Orán, 20/12 5pm
Tartagal, 20/12 5pm
San Juan, 20/12 Casa de Gobierno
Neuquén, Monumento San Martín 19/12,5pm
San Pedro, Jujuy, 20/12 5pm
Bahía Blanca, 19/12 Plaza Central
Mar del Plata, 20/12 Pza San Martín
Olavarría, 20/12 Plaza Central
THE ORGANIZATIONS CALLING FOR THIS EVENT HAVE REACHED A CONSENSUS ON
THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENT OF SLOGANS THAT WILL BE READ ALOUD AT VARIOUS
POINTS DURING THE RALLY:
NO CONFIDENCE IN THE KIRCHNER GOVERNMENT
1) Stop repression and impunity. Dropping of all charges against all
those who struggle. Trial and punishment for all those materially,
intellectually and politically responsible for the victims of December 19-20,
those of June 26, and for all those who have fallen. No to the attack
of the government against the piqueteros and the left, defense of the
popular assemblies, of the organizations of the workers movement and of
all the organizations of the people in struggle. Withdrawal of frontier
guard troops from the neighborhoods.
2) Jail to those on the take and not for those who struggle. Jail to De
la Rúa, his cabinet and all those involved in the bribes in the Senate.
Annulment of the ATM card [labor reform] law, and annulment of all
collective bargaining agreements signed while it has been in force, by the
bosses, the trade union bureaucracy and whoever was in the government.
All of them must go.
3) For a minimum wage of 800 pesos. For a wage equivalent to the basket
of family needs, for all the workers, private and public, working and
pensioned. Restitution of the 82 per cent for the pensioners and
duplication of the amount of the work plans. Extension of the subsidies to all
the unemployed.
4) Annulment of labor flexibilization, repeal of all labor reforms,
free collective bargaining agreements on the basis of delegates elected in
General Assemblies of all the unions. Out with the trade union
bureaucracy.
5) Nationalization without indemnity of the AFJP's (private pension
funds), restitution of the employer's contributions, provisional control
by the workers and pensioners. For a PAMI (social security system)
directed and administered by its real owners, the pensioners and workers,
with no interference by the state.
6) Real jobs through respect for the 8-hour working day, distribution
of the working hours, re-opening of the closed down factories under
workers administration, national plan of public works and popular housing.
7) Return of the savings to the savings account holders in its original
currency, to be carried out by the banks. No to mortgage foreclosures
on housing and small properties. Land, seed and tools for the peasants
under control of the workers and users.
8) Re-nationalization of the privatized companies under workers
administration, no utility rate hikes. Social rates for the unemployed and
workers under the poverty line.
9) No to the Kirchner-IMF pact. Non-payment of the foreign debt. Break
with the IMF and the financial organizations and the imperialist banks.
10) No to the FTAA and no to the Mercosur, for the socialist unity of
Latin America. No to the plan Colombia and to the Aguila (Eagle) III
operation. Down with the blockade against Cuba. Yankees out of Latin
America. Imperialims out of Iraq.
11) For a government of the Workers and the People.