Heard on “No Te Duermas”
Juan Romero. In the second part of the interview, Juan Romero highlighted the importance of mobilizations and criticized the actions of unionists.
Tomás Modini @ModiniTomas
“Mobilization processes hit the government”
At the beginning of the second part of the interview on “No Te Duermas” councilor Juan Romero reaffirmed: “This is a completely insensitive government and socially it is causing a catastrophe, and they are aware of it. They want to create a scenario where 80 percent of us are poor and are left to manage that with repression.”
“However, mobilization processes, if they occur, generate an effect; they hit the government. It’s not that they make it understand, but they do hit it, as happened with the educational mobilization,” he elaborated.
In line with this, he stated that “before the approval of the Basic Law, the government was floundering in its policies and creating many doubts,” and that “that’s why we thought that after that march, which was a strong blow to the government, there should have been a continuation.”
“And the same after the general strike by the CGT. Surely the balance of power, the discussion, and the dispute would be better in terms that benefit us, which is for people to live a bit better,” he assured.
The Role of the CGT.
Then, the leader of the Left Front was critical of the union organization: “I think this is fundamental. The CGT is sitting negotiating labor reform. They issued a statement that only says that repression is ugly. I was there on Wednesday and there were retirees and retirees’ organizations who organized a plenary, which is what needs to be done, and called for an action, which is what they did and have been developing.”
“And there was no one from the CGT. There were no unions or leaders, only retirees, some deputies and legislators, and fellow activists. But the organizations with responsibilities were not there, are not there, and do not say they will be,” he reported.
He then detailed that “there was the Polo Obrero, other picket struggle organizations, but other social organizations were not there” and that “this is a problem because if not, Milei could not govern.”
“We need to see the problems he has with his own bloc; what it would be like if all others truly opposed him. He could not carry out such a social crime plan,” he noted.
The Complex Economic Problems
In the final part of the conversation, Romero referred to other issues facing citizens: “We have highlighted the problem of retirees as central this week, but there is also the problem of layoffs, the enormous recession affecting industries, factories, jobs, and a fall in purchasing power. Everything we are seeing warrants a national struggle plan by the CGT.”
“Prices in the economy are always relative to workers’ income. If you have a salary of $400,000 and you get a $100,000 electricity bill and have to spend another 100 on the bus to go to work, it’s really not worth going,” he described.
He added that “the problem is putting into crisis those who go to work, students who go to university, it puts into crisis the social life of people with an economy like this.”
“This questions the possibility of an elementary development, which is even, on the workers’ side, the responsibility of a capitalist regime that must at least ensure that the workforce reproduces itself, and for that, it has to be able to pay for a bus,” he concluded.
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