The Argentine crisis
Gerry FOLEY
Although the breakdown of the military by the conciliationism and is apparently accelerat-
On December 6, 1982, only a few days eral elections would be held at the end of 1983, Argentina was paralyzed by a 24-hour general strike that involved
Ten days later, front, the Multipartidaria, under the slo.
"For Democracy and National Re construction"
people in Buenos Aires. It went over the head of its bourgeois organizers.
In its December 18, 1982, issue Le
"In the midst of this
The country is politically in flux. Des-
La poll done in February that 46% of the voters were of voting for the old liberal the Radical Civic Union (UCR) of Raul Alfonsin, as opposed to 39% for
The UCR verbally opposed the repression against the left that began under Isabel Peron and then was carried
The Communist Party is reportedly advantage of the toleration extended by the military to political organizations considered to be extremist. We are also seeing the growth among the workers of Trotskyist organizations.
One of the main reasons for the conciliation of the bourgeois opposition, as the following article indicates, is the explosiveness and fundamental tions of the situation in Argentina.
The bourgeois opposition is terrified of anything that could open up the way for mass mobilizations of the type that developed in the country between 1969 and 1973. The anger and desperation of the masses are now much deeper than they were then and there is no Peron or united Peronist movement to divert them.
This reality has paradoxical effects. The very depth of the crisis has led the existing political forces to hold its development back. The erosion of the old demagogic populist party that has diverted past mass upsurges has led to the revival of an old liberal party that was pro-imperialist at the time of the rise of
It is clear that the Argentine crisis is a major threat to the imperialist system of control in Latin America. It has already gravely set back U.S. plans for dealing with the spreading revolution in Central America, as another article in this issue points out. toward an explosion in Argentina decisively alter the whole relationship of social forces in Latin America.
The process that is opening up will be one of the most important experiences in the history of the anti-imperialist and workers movement in Latin America. has to be watched closely.
Monde noted:
tumult, the leaders of the Multipartidaria, obviously lost control of the events...
They discreetly slipped away,