OPEN LETTER FROM THE TPR TO PARTIDO OBRERO’S XXII CONGRESS
We reject the opening rally of the XXII Congress
ALTAMIRA PROPOSES PO’S DISSOLUTION IN MORENOISM USING FIT AS AN EXCUSE
FIT closed Congress to dissolve PO and adapt to the union bureaucracy? Or FIT open Congress to fight against Cristina and Kicillof’s Rodrigazo?
Two days before the beginning of discussions in Partido Obrero’s XXII Congress, Altamira [PO’s main leader, TN] proposed that the Congress should resolve the call from the FIT [Left Front, TN] to a “political, socialist congress, of the working class and the left (...) with the slogan of uniting the left and the working movement” (Prensa Obrera, “A policy for the working class”, April 17th).
Announced that way, the task seems to be a progressive and consistent step forward: as Left Front gathered 1.5 million votes, becoming a reference for the working class, it makes sense to organize a congress to homogenize itself and give an orientation to workers. This task is urgent facing Rodrigazo [right-wing turn from the government facing the collapse of it’s emergency regime with mega-devaluation, inflation, repression and salaries’ increases below inflation, TN] catastrophe and the need of setting an organized expression of the trend towards the general strike within the working class. The left has been talking, in many ways, about “a bases congress to vote a struggle plan” since months ago. Who could be better to develop this task than Left Front? Actually, it’s exactly what we have been striving for as Coordinating Committee in Defense of Left Front, and one of the 10 motions we pose as Tendencia Piquetera Revolucionaria to Partido Obrero’s XXII Congress.
However, the proposal of a “Socialist Congress” stated by Altamira, has nothing to do with this. It is not about an open congress of Left Front to organize all the fighters in a struggle plan against Rodrigazo, but a closed FIT congress to dissolve PO in Morenoism, let Rodrigazo pass and drag behind Moyanist trade union bureaucracy [Moyano is the leader of one of the main unions from Argentina, TN]. To say it short, as the current and concrete discussion that divides Left Front today is between Combative Sindical Summit (ESC) and SUTNA Summit, finally it’s a congress to dissolve SUTNA Summit in ESC and allow Pollo Sobrero [main IS/Socialist Left tradeunionist, TN] impose to Partido Obrero his political adaptation to trade union bureaucracy. This is the price that Altamira assumes to achieve “the union of the left and the working class”.
From the TPR, we call Partido Obrero’s XXII Congress to reject the dissolution in Morenoism and call for a FIT congress open to all the fighters in order to vote a struggle plan against Cristina and Kicillof’s Rodrigazo.
