THE FIGHT AGAINST THE EMERGENCY BILL
The section, thus seriously reenforced, set up a plan for to all its sections.
Argentina
Ihe Argentine proletariat is currently in a dangerous situation, for, despite the acute struggles among the various sectors of the army and of the bourgeoisit, which might a short time lead to a coup d'état, all these forces fully agree about the goal they want to attain: the crushing. repressing, and sabduing of the fighting spirit and consciousness of the proletariat.
Though they have not so far reached their goal, they gaining ground, however, by taking reactionary measures: the cost of living is steadily increasing, unemployment is reaching alarming levels, the number of the workers who are imprisoned and banished is increasing, some nationalized firms are being given back to private enterprise. The bourgeoisie has concentrated its present activity on an effort to pass the Security and Emergency Bill which is meant, not to fight terrorism, but to defy the organization and the struggles of the worker and peasant masses.
The fact thal the strike of the shoe workers ended by acceptance of the employers' proposal after 55 days of struggle is clear evidence that it is necessary to unify the working class's struggle into a general mobilization.
In the sector of the vineyard laborers, the strike is winding up owing to the criminally conciliatory policy of its leadership, who, instead of unifying the strike, is paralyzing and splitting it, first by organizing strikes in scattered places isolated one from the other — first in one province and then in another province - and then by concluding separate agreements with the employers.
It is this divisive poliey, which is at the present time a suicidal one, carried on by the majority of the trade unions, that creates the present situation of the working-class movement in which symptoms of confusion and division are beginning to be seen. Meanwhile the small cliques of the army and of the bourgeoisie struggle for power. (Frondizi's party), approve tervention in the state of Córdopa. To judge from their statements, they are docile malleable instruments in the hands of the army.
While discussions are going on regarding whose hands the power is going to fall into, while a coup d'état is being prepared. while a monstrously repressive legislation is being prepared against the workers, the working-class movement does not take action. This is not due to a lack of fighting meeting before the end of their strike, 10,000 shoe workers who had already been on strike for a month, exhausted, unanimously decided to necessity of defeating the policy of the government. But it does not know how to do it. It cannot find the channels or the way to express the fighting spirit and even heroism that it showed in previous struggles. It is the conciliatory and pro-bourgeois trade-union leadership that is not capable of understanding the needs and fighting spirit of working class. the working masses are maintaining their fighting power.
The working class must take action to face this situation. In the name and on behalf of all the exploited masses in the country, the working class must check the offensive of the government, the employers, and imperialism.
The resolution of the delegates of the employees in the Carma machine plant, by approving that the MOU (the provisional trade-union congress) should function as General Confederation of Labor, and by calling for a general mobilization on the basis of a minimum programme, pointed the way. A general mobilization of the working class and of all the exploited people must be organized to prevent the government, the bourgeoisie, and imperialism from going forward with their reactionary plans of hunger, poverty, and superexploitation. Il is necessary to unify these struggles on the basis of a Proletarian United Front and a minimum programme including the following points:
a) against the passing of the Emergency Bill;
b) for freeing the imprisoned and banished workers;
c) for functioning of the MOU as a General Confederation of Labor;
d) against hunger: a minimum living wage and introduction of the sliding scale of wages and salaries under workers' control;
e) against unemployment: nationalization, under workers' control, of all factories that have have been closed, and adoption of a shorter working day with no change in wages;
f) against the return of nationalized factories to private enterprise: workers' control of all government industries.
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Australia