Pensioners and Retirees Trade Union International
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ARGENTINA: Press Release 1689 “Wednesday of the Retirees”
The story below comes to us from our correspondent Marcos Wolman in Buenos Aires. What is extrordinary about the right-wing assault on the benefits and Social Security for the retired and pensioners is its similarity to the right-wing attacks in the United States. The same IMF playbook is on full display. The only defense against these attacks on our seniors is to build the "broadest call to retired, union, social and political organizations to build a large united front of struggle to overcome the reactionary policies of this government and its allies, while making the demands of the active and retired working class a reality."
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When the current director of ANSES appointed by the Executive Branch, Mariano De Los Heros, spoke in the Senate a few days ago, on the occasion of the discussion of the so-called Mobility Law approved by the House of Representatives, he proved to be, like the rest of the officials and advisors of the Milei government, a worthy representative of the large international and national economic groups. With a harsh argument, he expressed that the priority is zero fiscal deficit, even when to achieve it, retirees must be condemned to greater suffering and misery.
In this direction, the government intends to have the Senate approve the House of Representatives' text, with modifications that force the prolongation of its discussion and the postponement of the application of what would be the new law. In reality, it is part of the plan to put the public, distribution, intergenerational pension system in crisis and to have the path clear for its privatization.
From the conduct and statements of the deputies of the so-called “dialogue” opposition, who try to appear to be in opposition but are actually in government, it is clear that, once again, we retirees and pensioners will be bargaining chips for all these mercenaries, members of a large, diverse, reactionary and conservative political bloc, who claim to be critics of the government, but in the end make far-right proposals, for example, in labor matters.
They are the genuflexible republicans who approve the Bases law and sign the so-called May Pact; they are those who remain silent in the face of the advance of the state apparatus to persecute and penalize social protest; they are those who turn a blind eye to the actions carried out by representatives, self-proclaimed libertarians, who vindicate the dictatorship while defending and praising the condemned genocidaires. In the hands of these characters they intend to decide the destiny of the working class and in particular that of the retired and pensioners, seeing how they delay the approval of a law, a bad law, as we have expressed in its debate and in the mobilizations, which would mean that the current retirement benefits would be from that moment on just a little less miserable. No more than that. But they do not want to approve even that while they compete among themselves (government and dialogue) to see who is more generous with the big national and foreign capital by granting them obscene benefits that will guarantee them enormous profits at the expense of the people. From the National Coordinating Board of Retired and Pensioner Organizations we reiterate our broadest call to retired, union, social and political organizations to build a large united front of struggle to overcome the reactionary policies of this government and its allies, while making the demands of the active and retired working class a reality.
Argentina, August 5, 2024.-
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ARGENTINA: Milei's DNU is still in force, negatively affecting the lives of millions of people
The year progresses and Milei's DNU is still in force, negatively affecting the lives of millions of people. As if that were not enough, the project called the Bases Law is in the legislative process in the Senate, which if approved will mean a decisive step, taken by the Government and its allies, to the detriment of the people.
We are in the presence of a government that vindicates the historical periods marked by social inequality basically expressed in the hunger of the popular sectors while a national and foreign business elite obtained succulent benefits.
This social model of misery and exclusion seeks to be replicated today by this oligarchic entente that governs our country.
Popular organizations have a great challenge, which is to confront with increasing strength and unity this national government that promotes an unjust, oligarchic and pro-imperialist country model.
The retired and pensioned sector is one of the most affected by government actions. Indeed, the ruling party and its allies despise the working class and in particular the elderly, whom they consider a burden. The objectives of these true members of the caste that exploits us are: to convert pensions into mere subsidies for old age (or poverty?) by taking pension amounts to almost symbolic figures, to deny the right to retirement to the enormous majority of working people and promote the privatization of the pension system (AFJP or variants) offering it as the only viable alternative.
Given this state of affairs, from the National Coordinating Table of Organizations of Retirees and Pensioners we reiterate our demand based on the fact that the minimum retirement income must be equal to the amount of the Basic Basket for the Elderly calculated by the Ombudsman for the Elderly of CABA and proportional to the rest of the scale. Currently that monetary value is above $700,000. We say to the legislators: Stop giving the sad spectacle of seeing who proposes the most miserable initiative! We retirees have built this country and we simply intend to live this stage of our lives with the greatest dignity.
At the same time, we insist on the creation of a new pension system that is public, pay-as-you-go, supportive, intergenerational led and administered by active and retired workers with a minority participation of the State as its guarantor.
NO TO THE DNU!!! NO TO THE BASE LAW!!! THERE WILL BE A MINIMUM EQUAL TO THE BASKET FOR OLDER ADULTS!!! LET'S MOBILIZE MASSIVELY WHEN BOTH THE BASE LAW AND THE DNU ARE TREATED !!!ONLY THE PEOPLE WILL SAVE THE PEOPLE!!! Argentina, May 28, 2024.-
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