Santillan and Kosteki, martyrs of the whole working class!
Off with Duhalde, Sola, and the infamous regime!
All of them are the organizers of the massacre of Avellaneda!

With (ministers) Ruckauf, Atanasof, Alvarez, Matzkin and the bankers' other servants, and the pro-slavery bourgeoisie, aided by the press monopolies, they prepared the ground for a deliberatemassacre; with their intelligence services, they incited the bystander merchants, aiming to confront the workers with the ruined middle classes.
They are who loaded the shotguns and rifles of the police, the Gendarmerie and the Prefecture murderers, to riddle the picketers with grapeshot.

OFF WITH THEM ALL, NOT EVEN ONE ALONE SHOULD REMAIN!

ALL OF THEM MAKE PEOPLE STARVE, ALL OF THEM ARE SACKING THE NATION AND MURDERING US WORKERS!

As with [working class martyrs] Te-re-sa Ro-dri-guez, Vic-tor Cho-que, Ani-bal Veron, the 31 murdered on 20 December and the Ave-lla-ne-da massacre, the sepoy regime, IMF's pimp shows that it is a true occupation regime.

They only can session with their Parliament rounded by strong iron fences and guarded by the same murderous police that slaughtered the three boys of Floresta cold-blooded. They constitute an occupation regime that receives their orders from foreign powers, from bloodsuckers IMF & Bush, and at this service they death-starve and gun-riddle the workers and the ordinary people.
They have declared us the war, [and kill and injure us] every time we get up to demand work for everybody, jail and punishment to the corrupt ones and the sellers of the nation, and that the crisis be paid by the bankers, the monopolies and the IMF.

For them it is not enough to leave to the working class in the misery and the unemployment, but rather they murder and repress cowardly and treacherously those that claim miserable plans "Trabajar" ("Let's work") of 150 lecops a month and food-bags for not dying from hunger.

They accuse the picketers and the working and popular fighters of being violent, when the workers have already left 50 martyrs in the last few years, in Tierra del Fuego, in Cutralco, in Corrientes, in Mosconi, in the Plaza de Mayo and in Avellaneda! They describeus as violent when popular fighters -such as Castells- remain imprisoned; while all their murderous policemen and gendarmes, political thieves and paid union bureaucrats, are alive and in freedom!

For the dissolution of the police, the gendarmeria and the whole repressive apparatus, commanded by yesterday's genocidists and the bourgeois' parties that saved them!

Enough of letting them killing us! The workers are legitimately entitled to defend our lives from the bankers' hunting-hounds, the pro-slavery bourgeoiss and the infamous regime!

Workers whom somebody attacks and robs them and/or their families and assaults their home are entitled to defend themselves, and much more if against the ones who steal them the bread from their table and kill their children.

Let us organize unitary and coordinated self-defense committees of all working class and popular fighting organizations.
Juan Pablo Cafiero is no more than the "good cop" that gives the tortured prisoner a cigarette to "balance" the deeds of the "bad cop!" Both cops are against us!
This pimp to the intelligence services of the bourgeois state, went to Mosconi after the murder of (Anibal) Veron, Justiniano, Gomez, Santillan and Barrios , to demand their surrender to the heroic picketers of the North of Salta that were resisting in the (renamed) Plaza del Aguante ("Square of the Endurance"). They threatened them with a new terrible massacre in the hands of the gendarmeria that had occupied the county to the service of the murderous Salta Governor Romero and the imperialistic oil companies [set up in that oil-rich province].
Not a bit of trust in the justice, neither in the judges, all of them are friends of and have been named by Videla, Alfonsin, Duhalde, Menem and the infamous regime!
For workers' and popular tribunals to judge and to punish the murderers and their accomplices!
Freedom now for the imprisoned for fighting! Immediate acquittal for all the prosecuted working and popular fighters'!

WITH ADVANCED ELECTIONS AND WITH POPULAR FRONTS THAT TIE AND SUBORDINATE THE EXPLOITED TO THEIR EXPLOITERS, [THE SERVANTS OF THE REGIME] WANT TO DIVIDE AND TO CONDEMN OUR FIGHTS. LET US STOP THOSE THAT HAVEN'T COMBATED IN THE ROUTES, THE BRIDGES AND IN THE FACTORIES TO USURP THE WORKING AND POPULAR FIGHTS!

Let us prepare a unitary and overwhelming answer of the workers and the people to these rascals!

To try to decompress so much hate against the murderous government and their prey dogs, [the government's officials] have announced the advancement of the elections for [next] March. They want to impede that a new "December 20" finishes sweeping all track of this infamous regime, their corrupt judges, their deputies-servants and employees of the different gangs of capitalists and bankers. They want to impede a defeat in the streets of their murderous occupation troops -of the police, the gendarmeria and the prefecture and other "forces of security", at the hands of the working and popular fury.
They want us to negotiate our martyrs and their blood and the bread in the house of the working-class -both employed and unemployed ones- families in exchange for voting our executioners.
We can not allow this new fraud, this grotesque imposture. Today more than ever is necessary to regroup our forces to prepare a new December 20, because that will be the road to impose an ACTIVE BOYCOTT to the faked elections and fraudulent politics of the infamous regime and their murderous hyenas.
In 1997, (remember that) those same De Gennaro and Moyano organized "federal marches" with the CCC to then fill the box of bourgeois "progressive" political puppets to whom they very gladly said "all this is yours... Chacho! ". We cannot allow them to use neither the blood nor the fight of millions of Argentinean workers and people to erect at the head of the mobilization some new "Chachos", as this (Lilita) Carrio who -hand on hand with the PyMEs and the Banco Credicoop highwaymen- wants to condemn the fight of the workers and use it to get many votes and "pinch" positions in the infamous regime. This is the aim of this media pet-chimera, the National Front against the Poverty (Frenapo ). They are those who always throw water to damp and suppress the fire of the working class and popular fight, who set devices to divide us, to demoralize us, in the form of truces and siren's songs of"defense of the democracy". Thus they give time to the gendarmeria and the police of this "democracy" in order to disband and batter and grind the workers and the people.
For that reason, comrades, don't let us allow THOSE THAT HAVE NEVER COMBATED NEXT TO US IN THE ROUTES, ON THE BRIDGES, IN THE FACTORIES AND IN THE SQUARES TO EXPROPRIATE AND STEAL US OUR FORCE, THE WORKERS' AND POPULAR FIGHTS. Enough is enough! Already our bourgeoiss and their agents steal us our bread and our lives, our right to work, our wages, our dignity; don't we let them to steal us our fights!
The road to dismantle and prevail against these traps and frauds cannot be other than the one that we opened the 13 , 19 and 20 of December . The alliance that we need is that of the working class and the ruined middle classes and the doomed of the country and the city. Only the working class taking and nationalizing the banks under their control will be able to return the savings to the robbed small savers and to give cheap credits to the ruined small producers. Those who call the working class to subordinate to the bourgeoisie and its parties, liquidates the true alliance of the working class and the millions of small ruined individual producers.

For that reason it is necessary A GREAT UNITARY AND DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONGRESS OF ALL THE PICKETER ORGANIZATIONS THAT CALLS THE WORKERS, THE FIGHTING FACTORY WORKERS, THE POPULAR ASSEMBLIES AND THE SWINDLED SMALL SAVERS.

Out with the exploiter owners of the PyMEs that want to exploit workers for 150 miserable Lecops a month! Out with the thieves and bandits of the Banco Credicoop and its "cooperative Fund", hands off the workers' and popular organizations.
Then the only road is no other than to PREPARE AND to ORGANIZE A WIDESPREAD "DECEMBER 20" WITH ROADBLOCKS, COMMITTEES OF SELF-DEFENSE, ACTIVE GENERAL STRIKES, WITH THE WORKERS GAINING THE STREETS, TAKING OUT FACTORIES AND BANKS, TO DEFEAT THE IMF PLAN OF HUNGER AND MISERY, TO IMPOSE A WORKERS' AND POPULAR WAY OUT TO THE NATIONAL CRISIS AND TO PUNISH THE MURDERERS OF THE WORKING CLASS MARTYRS.

The hate and the unanimous reject caused by the massacre of Avellaneda have seized the whole Argentinean working class. The comrades of the Coordinator of Movements of Unemployed "Anibal Veron" -that counted in their ranks today's martyrs, and who were in the outpost of the fight against the police's and prefectura's provocation- have all the authority to summon NOW a National Congress of Employed and Unemployed Workers. With a call of this type, workers' thousands would choose delegates in the factories, in the transport, in the offices and in the banks, jumping the fence of the sold bureaucrats, to organize a great and decisive national fight.

DOWN WITH THE UNIONS BUREAUCRACY, ACCOMPLICE AND SERVANT OF THE MURDEROUS GOVERNMENT, WHICH MAKES THE PEOPLE STARVE!

Hundreds of thousands of picketers, beyond the organizations they belong to, of fighting workers, of assemblymen, aspire and look for an unitary fight. The traitors of the union bureaucracy impede it.
Those bureaucrats that are not directly in the government support it from without, as Daer and Moyano do.
The leadership of the CTA calls to subordinate the working fight to the Front against the Poverty. They want to put the fights and the working deaths to the service of the electoral campaigns of the agents of the yank embassy as the Carrio and the thieves-bankers of the Credicoop.
DLElia and Alderete left the picketers in the Puente Pueyrredon isolated. They say they stand for "non violence" while allowing the oppressors to grind the fighting picketers and workers with sticks and guns.
As they did yesterday when De la Rua's fall on December 20, today they "denounce" a "plot against Duhalde." They are the "picketer bureaucracy" of the infamous regime! Those that divide and impede a unitary fight and organization of the unemployed workers are the same those that were sworn in never more to block the roads and the bridges. They are the eradicators of the picketer movement!
The honest fighters of the CTA and the CCC should balance their bills with these leaders and demand that they convene the 3rd Asamblea Piquetera (3rd National Picketers Assembly) to build a democratic and unitary organization of the 50% of the working class that suffers from hunger, unemployment and layoffs.
The Bloque Piquetero can not continue one day more believing that they are "the Convening Board" of the whole picketer movement of Argentina. They should put themselves to the service of summoning to this great Congress of employed and unemployed Workers, just now.
Hundreds of fights flourish all along the provinces: civil servants, teachers, etc., and today the miners of the Turbio Coalmine have taken the mine and the provincial legislature in defense of their work source. The workers of the Scotiabank with their fight advance the combat against the thousands of bank workers' discharges that approach. All the workers in fight would see in this convocation the possibility to coordinate and to centralize their fights next to the picketers, the assemblymen and the rest of the workers. To propel this convocation, it is necessary to set up local, zonal and regional coordinating committees of all the sectors in fight. The same coordinating committees as those that arise and spread in La Plata , in the Alto Valle and around the fight of EPEC in Cordoba, or as the one that is being already impelled from Brukman.
No doubt, this is the road to conquer an Indefinite General Strike with pickets, factory takings, and roadblocks. Enough of waiting that the union bureaucracy of Moyano and De Gennaro, the masters of the truce that sustains the infamous regime, be those that summon this great fighting day that the Argentinean working-class class needs to end the task that began on 19 - 20 December!

Against the power of the regime of occupation of the bankers' and the IMF, let us stand up and strengthen the organs of working-class and popular power

To conquer the demand "Off with them all, not even one alone should remain!", to defeat the infamous regime of occupation, the road can not be the one that stands for the reformist left of the regime that wants to make us believe that by voting to a "democratic Constituent Assembly" the wrongs and the sufferings of the workers and the people will be solved.
They want the workers and those that fight, to believe that peacefully and voting one will be able to get work and worthy wages. The massacre of Avellaneda puts again red hot that all serious attempt to fight on the part of the workers and the people, even to get the most minimum thing as a foodbag, will be answered by the bands of armed men with repression and cold-blood slaughter. The dictatorship of the capital must be demolished that already cannot even give the least eating piece to its slaves, and much less a true job and a wage able to allow the workers and their families to survive.
Since December 20 the workers have put up their own fight organizations and taken the crisis and the problems in their hands, from the popular assemblies, the pickets, the factories taken by their workers to put them to produce after they were abandoned by the bourgeois one.
A great National Congress of self-organized Employed and Unemployed Workers, with the Popular Assemblies, would be the first step. So that the exploited can take decisively in our hands the crisis that we suffer and prepare the overthrow of the regime of the exploiters, impelling and coordinating our own security guard with our self-defense committees.
The deputies of the left organizations that claim to be to the side of the workers and their fights, as Luis Zamora, Roselli, Vilma Ripoll, Altamira, Echegaray, Patricia Walsh, cannot continue legitimating with their presence those caves of bandits, the Parliament and the provincial legislatures. (Those institutions hated by the workers and the people). They have in their hands the possibility to hit a hard blow to those criminals hated by the masses. That the parliamentarians of the left give up their seats! That all together they summon to a great national congress of employed and unemployed and of all those that fight! That they have the honor of losing their posts in the parliament of the exploiters, to conquer a position as delegates to this working-class and popular congress, a true parliament of the workers!
Today the workers of LAPA have come out again to fight in the City Airport -as did last year those of Aerolineas Argentinas that were able to save their jobs, with the support of millions of workers and the Argentinean people-. They should demand in assemblies that deputies Alicia Castro and Basteiro -leaders of the aeronautical unions- break their subordination to the bourgeois fronts they are into, give up their parliamentarian seats and submit them to that National Congress of Workers and Popular Deputies. Otherwise, they will demonstrate once again, to be twins to the union bureaucracy being bought by the bourgeois politicians with the union quotas and the millions of the social security but also with parliamentary positions.

For a government of the workers, the picketers and the popular assemblies, based on the organizations of direct democracy of the masses in fight and their self-defense committees

The National Interbarrial (Inter-neighbor Assembly) of March 17, voted to fight for a government of the workers, the picketers and the popular assemblies. Last year in Mosconi, after the gendarmeria murdered Veron, the picketers of the North of Salta imposed the "Program of the 21 points", where among other things, they reaffirmed they wanted sound jobs (not plans "Trabajar"). They also reaffirmed their will to coordinate their fight with that of the employed workers, in defense of their gains and wages. But not only that. They denounced that through the plans Trabajar the unemployed workers were given as a by-product of big fights, the bourgeoisie tried to use them as slave manpower in oil-companies, construction plants and factories so as to lower the wage of the already employed workers. The unemployed workers in the pickets and roadblocks claimed their allegiance to direct democracy as the right way to distribute the plans and to choose their leaders. They swore in to toss and denounce any kicks offeredby the bosses to the sold out leaders and traitors of the working-class movement and their organizations.
Next to this, popular assemblies, and organizations of picketers have proposed hundreds of demands that attack the property of the exploiters as the only solution to the crisis of the working class. The nationalization under working-class control of all factories that close and/or discharge workers is the claim of the workers taking over and putting to work their closed factories as those of Brukman in Buenos Aires, of Junin Clinic in Cordoba, and of Zanon Ceramic Tiles in Neuquen. The program of the working class and the people for a way out of the crisis is already part of the conscience of millions of exploited in its fights. The rupture with the IMFis a claim of all the workers that enter to the fight.
How to put an end to the hunger, and the persistent price rises? The traitor union bureaucracy wants us to conform to the miserable 100 pesos (25 dollars) a month wage increase [for 6 months], when the devaluation [of the peso] has been of 400% already, and the inflation ofthe family basket sums 70%, razing with all of our wage. Meanwhile, the bourgeoisie are hiring unemployed workers to 150 Lecops per month and want to collapse even more the working-class wage.
The situation doesn't improve with aspirins like the food-bags or this miserable wage increase! The answer of the whole working-class movement should be "$1.200 of minimum wage -indexed by the inflation- for all the workers!" How to fight against the increase of the prices? We should set a plan of alimentary emergency based on the expropriation under working-class control and without compensation of the big food companies and grain traders, and big supermarkets, so that working class and popular committees guarantee price controls and the direct distribution to the population.
Don't everybody want to defend the wholly gratuitous public health and education, so that our children can study and don't die as flies like those just born babies in Tucuman province? But how could we, without refusing to pay the foreign debt?To stop the bleeding of thousands of millions of dollars it is necessary to break up with the IMF and to confiscate without compensation and under working-class control all the imperialistic companies, as those privatized by the Spanish, French and Germanpirates. To return their savings to the small savers, and to have low rates so that there are cheap credits for the small producers, there is no other way out that to fight for the expropriation of the banks and their centralization in a single state-banking under control of the workers.
We cannot allow the whole objective of our fight to be reduced to a bunch of miserable plans "Trabajar" and subsidies of 150 Lecops, and be forced to subsist with food-bags, even losing our lives in the streets to get them. That cannot be the fate for the only class that produces the national wealth neither the way out from the crisis that the regime and this criminal system carried us to!
For the development of a really great fight, to put our feet on the exploiters' chest -even to achieve the most minimum of our goals-, it is necessary to go for everything. (Only when they realize the possibility of losing their property, the exploiters throw some crumbs to those that fight).
Our claim must be: "For the workers and ordinary people to live, the imperialism, the bankers, the pro-slavery bourgeoisie and their servants, all their system, should perish!" This is the most immediate task in order to organize and to centralize our fights to conquer a true government of the workers, the picketers and the popular assemblies.

(Notes)
Prefecture is the corps of armed jackals in charge of the surveillance and repression of "crime" along the river and seacoasts. The Gendarmerie is in charge of the surveillance and repression of "crime" along the country borders... but of late they have been in charge of the repression of all the roadblocks and the factory take-outs and the protests against the privatizations.
Federal State bonds, redeemable in about six years; 150 lecop = 35 dollars. Lecops are sometimes considered as currency (not for paying taxes or essential services as gas, water, energy, etc.). However, some shops refuse to accept them at their official value of 1 peso = 1 lecop, or takes them only as a partial pay.

Each one containing one 1 kg-packet of wheat flour, one of corn flour, one of white rice, one of soybeans, two of spaghetti or macaroni, one ? kg packet of lentils, one of beef-lard to fry, sometimes a 1l flask of sunflower or soybean oil.

(JuanPi) He is the same one minister who under De la Rua's government bought some leaders at Mosconi and Tartagal (Salta), in exchange of cooling down the picketers' fighting. He distributed some hundreds of plans "Trabajar" to help treacherous, corrupt leaders to "blackmail" their followers, transforming these leaders in "unofficial officials" of the bourgeois state. Some of them, however, as "Hippi Fernandez", have just now been named thoroughly official functionaries.

Unemployed Salteno workers who during diverse roadblocks in Salta province were murdered by the police and the gendarmeria, under De la Rua's government, while demanding "Jobs for everybody!"

CCC, or Corriente Clasista y Combativa (= "Combative and Class-conscious Current"); this movement is formed by sympathizers of the Maoist PCR (Partido Comunista Revolucionario = Revolutionary Communist Party) and different groups of Castroite and Guevaraist militants. One of its leaders is bourgeois parliamentarian D'Elia. Imprisoned Castells is also a militant of the CCC, the leader of its retired workers' branch.
"Chacho" (Carlos) Alvarez was a very articulate "progressive" bourgeois politician, an ex -Peronist, who founded the "Frepaso" (Front of Social-Sensitive Parties), then formed the "Alianza" (a front between the Frepaso and the old center-right Radical Party). He served some months as vice-president to the government of De la Rua. He resigned after failing to honor his promise to address and solve the extended corruption in the Senate.

Elisa "Lilita" Carrio is a very pious center-right politician, who wants every elected official to resign, apparently echoing the popular demand. She went a "media-star" politician by denouncing the corrupt deeds of ex -presidents Menem and De la Rua during their mandates, specially their liaison with the Citigroup. She is allegedly a JP Morgan and other financial groups' agent, with good ties with the US Embassy and the FBI.

PyMes = Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. These bourgeois use to have most of the employed "in black", and the government gives them permit to hire workers already on the social plans (with the 150 Lecops as a wage) and are excepted to comply with the social protection laws. The Banco Credicoop (Cooperative and Credit Bank) is the main lender and organizer of these PyMEs. It is mainly owned and managed by ex -CP leaders and henchmen.

The Frenapo is a movement in favor of a "popular front" impulsed by the CTA, the "self-organized" shantytowns charity of the catholic priest Father Farinello, and some other union leaders and bourgeois "progressive" parliamentarians (some of them from the same Chacho's Frepaso). During the 19-20 December battles of the workers and people against the attacks of the police in Buenos Aires, the Frenapo members were mounting stands in the main avenues of the Capital City, and picking up middle-class signatures to support a project to be submitted to the Parliament. The project aimed to "prohibit hunger and poverty".

13 December, 2001, Argentine workers imposed a general strike which had a almostabsolute acceptance by the population, including employed and unemployed workers, ruined middle-classes, rural debt-ridden small farmers, etc. The strike was called by all the Union Federations in an attempt to discipline and tame the increasing fightingspirit of the workers and ordinary people and their hate for politicians, monopolies and banks. But the strike surpassed the provisions of the bureaucratic leaders. (Two months before the turnover for the polls -Argentine citizen are legally enforced to vote- had been an historical low of 40%, and among those who effectively voted, the 30% had put slices of sausage, comics and sex-magazines clippings, dirty pieces of paper or had annulled their votes).
19-20 December, 2001. On these dates hundreds of unemployed workers and their starved families assaulted the imperialistic chains' hypermarkets to take food and essentials for them and their children, while picketers blocked the roads. Meanwhile workers and youth battled against the the police in Buenos Aires and the principal cities, suffering 31 deaths and hundreds being injured. After the government of ex -President De la Rua dictated the state of exemption, a massive demonstration of workers and ruined middle-class defied it and filled the Plaza de Mayo, banging pots. These developments culminated with the resignation of economic minister Cavallo, and finally with the fall of De la Rua and all his government.
Coordinadora de Movimientos de Desocupados "Anibal Veron", a loose alliance of numerous, mostly Guevarite or similarly "left populist" Movements of Unemployed Workers (MTDs) in the South of the Great Buenos Aires towns (Avellaneda, Lanus, Lomas de Zamora, Glew, Ezeiza, Guernica, Quilmes, etc.). They bring together mostly young and militant unemployed or underemployed workers. The massacre of Avellaneda left two of them dead, murdered by the Itakas of the police and the prefectura, and many more severely gunshot. There were also many otherwounded demonstrators not belonging to the "Anibal Veron".
Some bureaucrats long trenched into the principal unions -as Atanasof, Barrionuevo, his wife, etc.- are ministers or cabinet secretaries or undersecretaries either in the national, provincial or municipal governments.
Bloque Piquetero (Picketer Bloc) is abloc of left organizations of the unemployed, built by Stalinists, Castroites, Guevaraists, pseudo-Trotskyists, both liquidationists and centrists. (Refer to our appeal to the healthy forces of the IV International on 16-17 February, 2002)
La Plata is the capital of Buenos Aires province. It is a region with a long tradition of workers and students fights. It used to be a strong industrial compound in the seventies. The Alto Valle is a long Valley between the southern provinces of Neuquen and Rio Negro, a region of fruit farms, agro-industries, dams, oil and many other industries. It has many towns where militant movements have developed, against the trigger-happy and corrupt police, for the public education, for jobs for everybody, etc. Both La Plata and the Alto Valle have important and combative campuses.
The Alto Valle is a long Valley along the Negro (Black) River linking the southern provinces of Neuquen and Rio Negro, a region of grapevines and fruit farms, agro-industries, dams, oil-drilling and many other manufactures. It has many towns where militant movements have developed, against the trigger-happy and corrupt police, for the public education, for jobs for everybody, etc. Both La Plata and the Alto Valle have important and combative campuses.
LAPA is a private home-traffic airline. Its staff is currently in strike and blocked the road to the City airport and the airport building hall to oppose layoffs and disrespect of security standards. Aerolineas Argentinas personnel fought bravely a long and popular fight (with strikes, pickets, rallies, acts and blocking of the landing fields for the home and international lines in the City Airport and Ezeiza International Airport). In spite of the threats, imprisonment and physical attacks by the government, the police and the imperialistic privatizers. They could offset the fraudulent bankruptcy of the airline and stop the subsequent massive layoffs.
Alicia Castro and Basteiro are CTA leaders as well as their own unions' (Stewardesses', and Land Personnel's, respectively), and besides they are House Representatives.