ARGENTINA course, this does not prevent a resort to military repression in specific instances such as in Caracas in Venezuela and Villa Redonda in Brazil. In Argentina, the only possible option for the bourgeoisie represented by Menem, in the perspective of a capitalist solution to the crisis through a reconsolidation of the army and a defeat of the workers' movement. * ble problem.
Workers' Party statement on the repression
The military tried to demand a sort of legitimization of the dictatorship. But the
THE WORKERS' PARTY (PO), a Trotskyist formation that broke with the masses prevented that. Videla, Massera
Lambert current in the early 1980s, has been one of the main targets of and a lot of other generals are still in pristhe repression. Its principal leaders were arrested, but on June 6, as a result of public and media reaction and of the occupation of his offices
What is more, you have also to considby PO activists, the prosecutor was obliged to release them.
er the lack of weapons and very low wag-
The following is an official statement made by the PO following the es owing to the economic crisis. As a result, the soldiers have come into contheir superiors
ON JUNE 1, Judge Larrenvere in the town of Moron, a suburb of demands similar to those of the workers.
Buenos Aires, issued a warrant against the Workers' Party for "crim-
So, we are seeing a very grave social inal conspiracy," accusing it of being responsible for disorders and and political crisis in the army. This the pillaging of supermarkets. The judge's decision was preceded and accommakes the Argentine army the weak link panied by a governmental campaign over radio and TV blaming the far left and in the repressive apparatus in Latin the Trotskyists for the events that have occurred in these last months in Argen-
America and also explains its complete tina. This judge's decision was directly dictated by the government and the crisis has been ineffectiveness.
reflected by three mutinies in two years.
The judge ordered the police to search the headquarters of the PO and to a similar phenomenon arrest its national leadership. Thus, the police came into our central headquaramong the police where there have been ters in Buenos Aires on Thursday night [June 1] and arrested the following
50 strikes for higher wages; and one secpeople: Catalina Guanigni, leader of the Committee of Relatives of Missing tion, supported by the MAS, has been calling for joining the trade-union organi-
Persons and Persons Jailed for Political Reasons, a mother of two missing persons and a candidate in the May 14 legislative elections; Pablo Rieznik, a zations.
At the moment, there are three factors candidate for senator, who was kidnapped during the military dictatorship; and
Gregorio Flores, a leader of the 1969 Cordoba uprising and candidate for vice standing in the way of a coup d'état.
First, the rise of the workers' and people's movement — which is at the origin
PLANTu president in the recent elections.
tive elections; and Cristian Rath.
immediate release of its leaders.
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