Macri’s government, just like many in other countries, is showing up to what point he is willing to go to impose his adjustment plan, which is a capitalism’s international policy.
However, thousands of workers, retirees, students, categories, and political, social, and Human Rights’ organizations spent the night protesting outside the Congress to show they are against those plans. They were received with sticks and bullets, gases and rubber bullets used not to disperse but to injure.
People resisted the repression by the Gendarmerie with whatever they had on their hands. Many comrades are wounded, some seriously, like an activist injured with a lead bullet who was about to bleed, and another one that lost an eye. There are more than 50 people detained.
The same ones that attacked the demonstration that counted with many elderly are now making a campaign about “the violent ones,” specifically accusing the PSTU and one particular comrade, who appears throwing a free-sale fire-work usual in every demonstration, just to discredit the mobilization and deviate the attention of the 50 detainees and the police brutality.
Sebastian Romero was a FIT candidate, besides being a well-known labor and popular activist, who was at the front line of the protests for housing together with his neighbors, as well as defending the General Motor workers’ jobs when the US multinational imposed 350 layoffs. He was also in solidarity with many other working-class struggles. Now, Macri’s government, through a prosecutor, officialized an order to detain him.
This is an attack on all popular and labor movement organizations; a “witch-hunting” against the PSTU and any organization that mobilizes in defense of our rights.
We repudiate the order of detention and the media campaign. We surround Sebastian with solidarity and defend him and all activists still detained. We demand immediate freedom and denounce the campaign orchestrated by those who, on a daily basis, generate social violence like hunger, misery, and unemployment. We make the government and the security forces responsible for anything that might happen to our organization and militants.
To assume this defense is to defend the right of all workers to demonstrate and to defend themselves from repression.
Please send your adhesion and solidarity to solidaridadconsebastianromero@gmail.com.
End the persecution of Sebastian Romero and of all activists!
