Liberation Party (Argentina)
The government of La Libertad Avanza, an ally of Yankee imperialism and Zionism, is going through difficult times. It lost the legislative elections in the country’s main province, Buenos Aires, where it was defeated by 14 points by Fuerza Patria, the Peronist/Kirchnerist party, a bourgeois-led force that channeled the rejection of the austerity measures implemented by President Javier Milei since he took office in December 2023.
The Liberation Party recognizes this defeat, but we do not support Fuerza Patria, because it does not represent a popular solution to the crisis that is being unloaded on the working people.
Milei has not changed his economic plan one iota, despite this defeat and the almost certain new defeat he will suffer on October 26 in the national legislative elections, where Congress (Deputies and Senators) will be partially renewed.
The Trump administration, the US Treasury, and the IMF will continue to support this government, which guarantees them the delivery of resources and submission to their dictates. Therefore, Milei will continue with his plan of austerity, privatizations, dependence, and reforms against workers and retirees. Therefore, the task of the revolutionary forces today is to redouble the struggle against austerity, in defense of the rights of workers, the people, and national sovereignty.
Elections are not the decisive factor in changing history; the determining factor is the uprising of the oppressed against these governments that serve the monopolies, bankers, and international finance capital.
What has been happening in recent weeks is alarming in terms of US interference in all areas of Argentine life: politics, the economy and finance, foreign relations, the armed forces, etc. Milei is turning Argentina into a US-Zionist colony.
In April of this year, the IMF disbursed $12 billion, adding to the already heavy foreign debt taken on by former President Mauricio Macri in 2018, a debt that was not rejected but validated by the Frente de Todos government (Alberto Fernández, Cristina Kirchner, and Sergio Massa) and which now, with Milei, is swelling to superlative levels.
The IMF dollars were used to control the rise of the dollar and the devaluation of the Argentine peso, but the US currency continues to rise nonetheless. After the defeat in Buenos Aires, a new request for aid was made to the US, to which Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a currency swap for $20 billion and other “aid.” He acknowledged that the aid to Milei is intended to help him win the elections and ensure that Argentina remains a “partner” (read: vassal) in the region.
No US “aid” will solve the serious problems suffered by the Argentine people. On the contrary, it will increase the foreign debt, which already exceeds $500 billion, with interest that will be unpayable for several generations of Argentines. The viceregal subjugation to the White House is costing us dearly, not only because of the interest and foreign debt it generates, but also because of the increased Yankee interference in our internal affairs. Bessent demands that the Argentine government commit to “removing China from Argentina,” which prompted strong criticism from the Chinese embassy in Buenos Aires, which stated: “Bessent and the United States must understand that Latin America and the Caribbean are not anyone’s backyard.”
Another consequence of this “Yankee bootlicking” policy (as Fidel Castro called former President Fernando De la Rúa in February 2001) is that Milei authorized the entry of U.S. troops for military maneuvers between October 20 and November 15. The “Tridente” exercise will take place in Puerto Belgrano, Mar del Plata, and Ushuaia, compromising our sovereignty and the environment. This authorization came from Milei through a decree and not a law passed by Congress, as required by the Constitution. The fact is that this government does not respect either the laws or the separation of powers. It is a typically fascist procedure that is repeated when it comes to illegally indebting the country to the IMF, vetoing laws on retirees, people with disabilities, universities, Garrahan Hospital, etc.
The Liberation Party denounces that Milei wants to turn us into a “Yankee-Zionist” colony and for this reason invited the genocidal Netanyahu to come to Argentina, met with him in New York, and considers Israel to be “the bulwark of the West.” This government supports Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians, in addition to buying Israeli weapons to repress those who defend the Palestinian cause, whom it persecutes with the complicity of the judiciary.
THE TASKS OF THE STRUGGLE
The struggle of the workers and the people in Argentina involves achieving wage and pension increases, raising the budgets for education and health, reactivating public works, defending public companies against the privatizations carried out by the submissive government, denouncing police repression against demonstrations, demanding the freedom of political prisoners, and demanding the trial and punishment of Milei and all his corrupt officials and ministers, drug traffickers, and bribe-takers. In the elections, the Liberation Party will vote independently of the Left and Workers’ Front Unity (FITU) alliance.
We propose auditing, investigating, and suspending payments on the fraudulent and illegitimate foreign debt and breaking with the IMF; nationalizing banking, ports, and foreign trade; imposing heavy taxes on monopolies and supporting cooperatives and SMEs (small and medium-sized national enterprises); to reclaim Argentine sovereignty over the Malvinas; to support Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua against the US blockade and aggression; to break relations with the Zionist state of Israel, increasing solidarity with Palestine; to strengthen relations with China and the BRICS countries, the Global South, anti-fascist and anti-imperialist.
Today, old patriotic slogans are being revived: “Homeland Yes, Colony No”; “Liberation or Dependence”; “People or Monopolies”; “The debt is to us, not to the IMF.”
We are the children of San Martín and Che Guevara, not of Trump, Bessent, and the IMF.
