Latin America
Argentina After the Elections
Political Changes and
the Strategies of the Left Sergio García, MST leader and member of the fit - unidad National Board
Macri is exiting, Alberto Fernández is about to enter, but the IMF continues. There will be changes and continuity. What government and regime are we heading towards? What social responses will there be? Amidst the polarization, the FIT-Unidad achieved a significant vote, but fell back a few steps. Our proposals to advance.
Argentina, along with Bolsonaro’s Brazil, as allies of US policies in the region, exits the government. With their electoral defeat, those reactionary changes are stalled halfway. And, in these four years they have not been able to take the mass movement out of the streets: albeit with inconsistencies, the resistance and the confrontation of the austerity plan were expressed several times. In fact, Macri´s defeat was reflected electorally now because the old union bureaucracy and the PJ1 diverted the great rise in struggle of late 2017, when thousands confronted the labour and pension reforms. That was the beginning of the end for this government: it never managed to recover from those
Macri and his political coalition have just lost the national election and this is not a minor issue: the project designed and mounted by the great pro-imperialist bourgeoisie to execute the structural changes they needed and, at the same time, secure Permanent Revolution
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