The social movements and left-wing picketers will march to Congress today to demonstrate against the Bases Law that will begin to be debated in the Chamber of Deputies at noon and will take place less than a month after the call for the Pact of May 25, powered by the president Javier Milei.
“We mobilized in Congress to express our rejection of the Base Law, which deepens the removal of the rights of workers as a whole, attacks national sovereignty and the defense of our natural resources. The government clearly continues to seek greater powers and attributes to advance this agenda that harms the working class and benefits the always living, the true caste“, highlighted from the Popular Economy Workers Union (UTEP), whose general secretary is Alejandro Gramajo.
In addition, they emphasize that the project, which obtained majority consensus last Wednesday in the plenary session of commissions, “eliminates the social monotax; funds for integration works in popular neighborhoods; it takes away the possibility of retirement through moratorium from many colleagues; legitimizes any action by the security forces until its illegality is proven; “It shrinks the state instead of making it more efficient and withdraws delegations from the provinces.” They also oppose “delegated powers.”
The columns of the UTEP, made up of, among other organizations, the Evita Movement, Somos Barrios de Pie, the Classist and Combative Current (CCC) and the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE), will begin to gather in Plaza Congreso between 3 and 4 p.m. hours.
Nicolás Caropresia representative of the MTE, remarked before Infobae on the bill promoted by La Libertad Avanza and already foundered in February due to lack of consensus in the vote in particular: “They want to change the course with a swerve, but it is very unclear where they want to take us. Because we would think that it is okay to give absolute powers to those who, from one day to the next, inventing complaints, decide to cut off the food supply to at least a million people.; who decided to stop the work of access to services, such as electricity, water or sewage in popular neighborhoods without further ado; “Those who try to destroy cooperatives that have been generating more or less decent living standards for thousands who were eating from the garbage for more than a decade.”
Meanwhile, the MTE representative added: “There are central elements of our sector that will be modified with this law. The first is that They are going to make the social monotax disappearthe only way to generate retirement contributions for thousands who earn just above poverty.”
Caropresi stated that the UTEP is also mobilizing against the “definitive elimination of the socio-urban integration fund and because aims to modify and deepen the repressive strategies of the popular demonstrationrights that people like Patricia Bullrich, Javier Milei and others have used to draw attention when they did not agree with policies that they characterized as unjust.”
On February 1, 2 and 3, during the debate of the so-called Law Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines in the Lower House, clashes were recorded between protesters who reacted against the federal forces who tried to enforce the protocol anti-pickets and evict them from Rivadavia Avenue near Callao. They also set fire to garbage containers and homeless people’s mattresses. Prefecture, Federal Police, members of the PSA and Gendarmerie responded with rubber bullets, fire hydrant trucks, shovels, the Motorized White Brigade and pepper spray. There were injuries and arrests.
Today the Ministry of National Security, in charge of Patricia Bullrichwill deploy a strong police force to prevent the blocking of the streets surrounding the Legislative Palace.
The last time it was attempted to apply was on April 23 during the march in defense of the university budget. The number of attendees was so overwhelming that, from the command center that the official has set up in the facilities of the Federal Police headquarters, Bullrich and his collaborators decided to withdraw the troops from the streets. The volume of the call, driven by a claim that reached broad social sectors, forced La Libertad Avanza to reduce the protocol to its minimum expression.
This afternoon’s march will be a new fight between the picketers and social leaders and the agents of the federal forces.
“The Bases Law against which we demonstrate against aims to end plunging us deeper and deeper into poverty where each of the governors, senators or representatives of the dialogue opposition have their own interests,” he said when asked by this medium. Monica SulleNational Coordinator of the MST- Teresa Vive and stated that: “The CGT leadership that should have called the strike for today, and with mobilization of all workers, and not only arguing that the benefit of the union dues that is their cash is not taken from them. We have a union bureaucracy that is worried about how the May 1 march is going to be organized and the honorary event is today and tomorrow to stop this law that the Government wants impose an attack”.
“Enough of Milei“Let the CGT call for a strike and a plan of struggle,” is the slogan with which picketing organizations and leftist movements such as the Polo Obrero, the Frente de Izquierda Unidad and the MST will mobilize.
“The piquetero Movement, together with the combative unionism with the popular and neighborhood assemblies and the left, we are going with everything to this mobilization. We have to make this bill fall,” he said. Eduardo Bellibonileader of the Polo Obrero and called for “the citizens who mobilized together with the students, with the students, to the CGT that should have launched a national strike and the continuity of a plan of struggle because what is at stake with this “The law is a lot and clearly all workers should be on the streets mobilized with a national strike.”
The bill, which will include the fiscal package, which also had the ok in committee, was ready to be debated in the chamber after long weeks of frenetic negotiations in which La Libertad Avanza left behind several items that the Executive Branch had included in the original text that was modified several times to achieve consensus with the “dialogue” sectors. The CGT also obtained several concessions from the ruling party in the Labor Reform chapter. For example, the elimination of article 98 from the draft of the Executive Branch that established sentences of 6 months to 3 years in prison for those who block companies. A methodology that is usually used by the union of Truck Drivers who drive Hugo and Pablo Moyano.
The decision was adopted after a request from the deputy Miguel Ángel Pichettohead of the We Make Federal Coalition bloc, arguing that it should not be included in the project “nothing that affects the CGT”.
The picketing and social movements will also protest against the fiscal package, which includes the Income Tax and money laundering.
The ruling party had to sacrifice an important battery of articles in order to reach a ruling that was “signable” by the forces of the dialogue opposition. For example, it eliminated the article on economic deregulation, removed the entire chapter on Defense of Competition, reduced the emergency declarations to four and reduced the list of companies subject to privatization to just eight, leaving out Banco Nación.
La Libertada Avanza also agreed to expand the list of State organizations safe from any attempt at dissolution and eliminated the chapter on consolidation of titles of the ANSES Sustainability Guarantee Fund that enabled the sale of shares.
Despite compacting the project, it still a text of 240 articles and 162 pages remainedwhich will be put into consideration on the premises for at least two days.
The Kirchnerist and left-wing deputies did not accompany the vote on the new wording of the new Bases Law agreed upon by the majority of the committee deputies. The national representative Myriam Bregman, a leader of the Socialist Workers Party (PTS), questioned that the wording of the bill enables “the labor termination fund that governs the UOCRA and its extension to the rest of the labor market.” As he explained to this medium: “The regime in question enables the employer to retain 8% of the worker’s salary and the creation of a reserve so that, at the time of dismissal, you pay your own compensation. “This is breaking the Employment Contract law as we know it,” he said.
Today will be another hot and intense day outside and inside Congress.
