Peron Clings on
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tinian currency - the peso - of around 25%. This would drastically increase the cost of imported goods to workers, and follows on a 50% devaluation at the beginning of June which triggered the present stage of the crisis.
Though the Peronist leaders of the trade union movement have returned to a shaky alliance with the government, the campaign of terror by the right-wing continued. Last week the Mayor of La Plata, a major industrial city to the south of Buenos Aires, was riddled by machine gun fire while being driven from his office. The mayor, Rodolfo Cartier, was a leading Peronist in the labour movement, with close connections with the leaders of the trade union federation, the CGT.
Break
All these developments confirm the importance of a break for the workers movement from the bourgeois politics of the Peronist movement, in order to fight for a working class programme to meet the problems of the crisis.
The struggle for the sliding scale of wages can be seen as indis pensable in Argentina to maintain living standards in uncontrolled inflation. This has to be combined with the nationalisation of key sectors of industry in order to reg ulate prices. At the same time the workers movement must be protect ed by the establishment of armed workers defence squads to defeat right wing provocations.