Liberation Party (PL, Argentina)
The Liberation Party (PL) of Argentina extends fraternal greetings to the parties and comrades of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform meeting in the Netherlands.
We feel part of this Platform, which we formally requested to join in December 2024 because we agree with the general thrust of its anti-imperialist and combative programs and initiatives to achieve the goals of national and social liberation and socialism with national characteristics for our respective working classes and peoples.
In the case of Argentina, we are fighting against a fascist government like that of Javier Milei and the monopolies, which have laid off 173,563 workers in the private and public sectors, plus at least twice as many unregistered workers, in a year and a half of administration.
At the same time, this government has increased the foreign debt by $120 billion, of which $20 billion was granted by the IMF in an illegal and fraudulent process that did not go through Congress, as required by our National Constitution.
As these foreign debt payments are not being made by this Yankee neo-colony, the government is handing over natural resources (water, gold, lithium, gas, oil, etc.) to multinationals through the Incentive Regime for Large Investors (RIGI).
Another consequence of this austerity and surrender is growing police repression against protesters, workers, retirees, universities, hospitals, indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, feminists, etc. Every week there are crackdowns with hundreds of people detained and injured by the “security” forces, i.e., repressive forces.
Added to this was the June 10 proscriptive prison sentence against former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner through a rigged ruling by the Supreme Court of Injustice. The sentence was prepared for years by this biased justice system, which is controlled by economic power, and we therefore condemn it. The PL stands in solidarity with the former president, who is being persecuted like Lula in Brazil, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, and Pedro Castillo in Peru.
Our struggle, like yours, also encompasses international issues, such as the drama of our countries’ external debt, the mobilization against the genocide that Israel has been committing in Palestine for decades, the denunciation of the current aggression of Zionism against Iran, the war in Ukraine and NATO against Russia, the Trump administration’s war, not only of tariffs against the world, especially against China; the US blockade against Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. At this juncture, the attacks against Palestine and Iran are very serious, putting the world at risk of a new world war.
From faraway Argentina, we salute your meeting and wish you every success.