From: revo (inquiries@revolutionuk.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 07 2002 - 13:21:32 EST
PAN THE BANK! CANCEL ARGENTINAıS 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
governmentıs 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 argentinesolidarity@hotmail.com
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
Westıs 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 bossesı 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.
Thatıs 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 argentinesolidarity@hotmail.com
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