editorial One year after the death of Juan Perón, Argentina is racked by a generalized economic, political, and social crisis. During the past few months the world economic recession has had its effects in Argentina, causing a fall of usTrial exports ond and Japanese im cratized workers states have not been realized. Inflation, which was supposed to have been brought under control, is once again running at a gallop, prices incressing 10. The economi failed comple cial Pact, whi put the brakes workers combafivity and contain wages by relying on the role and increased weight of the Peronist trade-union bureaucracy and by making some concessions, has also failed. The successive readjustments of we inflation. liferation of tions of the w (la Constituc ion) in de fense of the baying pe democratic and trade-union rights; these mobilizations have challenged the Social Pact, which is now seen by everyone as a weapon of the bourgeoisie against the workers. Once a pecial! has shown its shrength against the maneuvers ar attacks of the bourgeois regime. But the weight of a powerful trade-union bureaucracy completely beholden to a bourgeois political leadership (Peronism) and the absence of any polit ical expression for the most combative sectors of workers who have broken in practice with the bureaucracy continue to limit the offensive capacitie of the proletariat. Although the present mobilizations, which are mainly defensive, have been able to stymie the projects of the government, they have had no political outlet and thus up to now The strength le tasa like the Brazilian proletariat in 1964 or the Chilean proletariat in 1973, continues to be the main obstacle to the economic, political, and social stabilization of the Argentine bourgeoisie's and imperialism's regime of exploitation, as was the case under the military dictatorship.
As has been proven both by the failure of the military dictatorship and by the failure of the Social Pact, this stabilization requires that the working class be driven back, that a profound defeat be inflicted on it. But today the regime of Isabel Perón is too weak and, most important, foo badly divided le such a Tord Cackinye of all content by an • legality behind which the most savage forms of selective repression are proliferating. Revolution worker leaders who have b the trade-union bureaucracy,
Imply considered too liberal The victims of the AAA (Argentine Anticommunist Alliance), whose bodies have been found riddled with bullets or burned up during the past year, are
Parallel police ga Pena, kidBuenos Aires. The number of political prisoners "placed at the disposal of the executive power" and supposedly awaiting trial tuns into the thousands. The aim of ppe militants of the workers movement, whose action, as con be seen in the many recent conflicts, is challenging both the regime and the influence of the trade-union bureauIN cracy quer the workers; to prop up the Peronist govament with the armed forces. To justify such a licy and such methods, the Argentine government, lin its official propaganda continues to call "people's government, " has resorted to old methods: According to the regime, the struggles of the Argentine vanguard are not rooted in the objective conditions and social contradictions of the country but are instead the product of on interplor gainst Al Dentind elirectal fromebroad. Latin In the same way, after the recent arrest of fourteen revolutionary Marxist militants, two of whom were murdered in cold blood "while trying to escape, " the police announced that they had dismantled cont'd. on p. 3i