From: revo To: a SOAS Revolution ; a London Revo ; a London Revo network ; a Revolution UK ; a Revolution UK network ; a World Revolution ; a world revolution network Sent: 07 January 2002 18:12 Subject: Protest Argentina's Debt! London Jan 12th
PAN THE BANK! CANCEL ARGENTINA�S DEBT Protest at the World Bank offices, London in solidarity with the struggles of the Argentinian people January 12th Saturday @ 12 noon World Bank offices, New Zealand House, bottom of Haymarket SW1 London Nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus BRING A PAN! In Argentina the recent demonstrations have seen hundreds of thousands of people banging pans on the pavement outside the presidential palace, to highlight the mass hunger caused by the huge debt and the government�s neoliberal policies. So bring a pan along in solidarity and we will give them a taste of the anger in Argentina � and make sure the global bureaucrats who trade in debt can hear us down in the street. Argentina Solidarity Network Cancel the Debt � Release all prisoners � End the police repression ARGENTINA LIBERA! 07951 493 232 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the last ten years economists and bankers have praised Argentina as the model economy that every third world country should follow. Its governments obeyed every dictate of the global capitalists: privatising and selling off their utilities and banks, pegging the peso to the almighty dollar, and supporting US militarism from the Gulf War to Afghanistan. The result is an economy in shambles, owned lock stock and barrel by the West�s multinationals, and crushed under a $132 billion debt owed to the Western bankers and the International Monetary Fund. Now the people have had enough. After four years of recession, mass unemployment and corruption, anger has turned to revolt. In December, when the IMF proposed a "solution" to the economic crisis - further cuts in wages, healthcare and education - the people responded with a general strike and a mass uprising, forcing the president to resign and flee his palace in a helicopter! Since then 5 presidents have come and gone as the workers and youth of Argentina reject a bosses� solution to the crisis. The Argentine politicians - and the Western governments standing behind them in the shadows - plan to continue with the cuts and devalue the peso, wiping out the savings and mortgages of millions of ordinary people, while doing nothing to halt the march of unemployment and hunger. The Argentinian workers and unemployed continue to build a mass movement of resistance. But the demonstrators there are facing severe repression - 30 have been killed so far, mostly by rubber bullets, and hundreds arrested. And Western governments have refused to even speak about cancelling the crippling debt that is at the heart of the crisis. That�s where we come in. We can help this mass movement of resistance, supporting its demands from our end, and force the Labour government to cancel the debts. We can help break through the media silence, exposing the repression and campaigning to free the prisoners, helping to protect the organisations of struggle. And we can build direct links between universities and trade unions here with students and workers in Argentina. The Argentina Solidarity Network has been established for these purposes from a meeting on January 5th in London. Its demands are Cancel the Debt o Release all prisoners o End the police repression It is an open network which will have regular meetings to get updates on the situation in Argentina and to plan action and solidarity, so get involved! Argentina Solidarity Network 07960 398 152 [EMAIL PROTECTED] N�stor Miguel Gorojovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***************************************************************************** Compa�eros del exercito de los Andes. ...La guerra se la tenemos de hacer del modo que podamos: sino tenemos dinero, carne y un pedazo de tabaco no nos tiene de faltar: cuando se acaben los vestuarios, nos vestiremos con la bayetilla que nos trabajen nuestras mugeres, y sino andaremos en pelota como nuestros paisanos los indios: seamos libres, y lo dem�s no importa nada... Jose de San Mart�n, 27 de julio de 1819. ***************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
