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The PSTU is born<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Written by PSTU – Argentina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Great excitement at the confluence of revolutionary groups<\/strong>
\nA revolutionary party is born. It was founded in Argentina the PSTU – Unified Socialist Workers Party, as a section of the IWL-FI. An invaluable tool for workers, youth, students and popular sectors.
\nThe unity of those who believe it is possible to build a new revolutionary party in the country occurs based on the solid foundation of its program, aiming at a deeper setting up in the working class; aiming at being internationalist, with a revolutionary morale and a centralized setup in order to fight for the power.
\nAfter eleven months of debates, discussions, jointed activities and mutual agreements the merger took place, joining the FOS (Socialist Workers’ Front) and the COI (Internationalist Workers Trend). At the same time our comrades, militants of\u00a0Dignity of Cordoba<\/em>Group joined the PSTU, another great triumph.
\nThe PSTU was founded amidst the Arab revolution scenario where the youth and the workers are playing a key role, amidst the workers\u2019 strikes against social adjustments in Europe, the mobilizations in Bolivia – against the populist governments\u2019 policies – and Honduras and the riots in the United States against anti-immigrant laws.
\nIn order to fight and help Argentinean workers and students in their struggles for pay rises, in order to fight against the employers and inflation, in order to fight for more money for Education and Health, against the cuts and government reforms, the PSTU was founded.
\nWe founded PSTU also to count on an electoral alternative and that is why we have integrated theLeft and Workers Front<\/em>, together with the PO, the PTS and IS.We have set the Left Front and joined together with all our strengths to defeat Kirchner administration\u2019s restrictive electoral reform, the Radical Party and the other bourgeois forces, who want to prevent us from voting on fighting workers and rebel students. Their purpose is to prevent the Left from participating in the process and to hinder any working class supporters in the elections.
\nOur first public appearance will be on May 1st, when we, workers of the world, will unite in the streets to remember our martyrs and make effective the international proletarian solidarity, which drives us ahead even more and fills us with even more responsibility.
\nThe PSTU arises to continue constructing the tendency developed by Nahuel Moreno in Argentina, expanding the tradition he taught us; and as him, following the teachings of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky.
\nExcited for the fight<\/strong>
\n“As you taught us, comrade Nahuel …we\u2019ll build the Fourth<\/em> as you have … to take the power\u201d, chanted the youth, the delegates and the activists who attended the Congress, all of them with joy, excitement and ignited chest.
\nWe were all very excited; there were many tears and endless tight hugs, feeling deeply the triumph taste, reloaded with strength to face the future challenges. And the emotional reactions were not supposed to be less sparkling since we were gathering together after years of divisions and splits we are now reversing. Our historical tradition of unity, deployment in the working class and the deep proletarian internationalism were becoming again a reality with the construction of PSTU.
\nBut all those tears and those hugs meant not only the excitement for what was happening, but also carried within it a multiplied militant force in order to make PSTU even stronger every day looking forward to the socialist perspective and a society with neither exploiters nor exploited. That’s why over almost all of delegates chanted”we are the death of the capital … we are the Trotskyites, the Fourth International”.
\nInternational Visitors<\/strong>
\nA large delegation of comrades from different countries attended the founding Congress of PSTU and many others sent us their letters of greeting, which show the extent of LIT and its more than 25 branches throughout the world.
\nA number of comrades came from different countries to share this historic moment, such as comrades Flor from IWL-FI, Leo from PST (Peru), Juan from IST (Uruguay), Fernando\u00a0 from\u00a0 PRT (Chile) \u2013 LIT\u2019s sympathizer section. From PSTU (Brazil) came Cecilia Toledo (author of\u00a0Women: The gender join us, the class set us apart<\/em>), Natalia and Alejandro Iturbe (publisher of LIT\u2019s magazine\u00a0International Courier<\/em>).
\nAlso greeted us from Europe our comrades from POI – Russia, PTR-IR \u2013Spain, Ruptura\/FER- Portugal, ISL -England, LCT \u2013 Belgium and UOC \u2013 Ukraine.
\nThere were also greeting letters from LIT\u2019s sections at Latin America such as PSTU (Brazil), Communist Left (Chile), PST (Colombia), UST (El Salvador) and\u00a0 PST (Honduras).
\nAlso sent us their greetings our comrades of\u00a0Workers\u2019 Assembly for Socialism (ATS)<\/em> of Senillosa in the province of Neuqu\u00e9n (Argentina).
\nA commitment with the revolution<\/strong>
\nThe closing ceremony was on Sunday at the nightfall, with moments filled with emotion, passion and commitment. In charge of the speech was Eduardo Barragan, head of Lacarde Hospital\u2019s branch of the Union of the Public Sector of San Miguel and member of the national board of the new party.
\nTo him was given the task of crowning this journey of fight, very important for those who were founding the PSTU. With resolution and eyes fixed on the future, comrade Barragan said: “it behooves me to make the closing speech of this conference, and like all of you, I do it with deep and great emotion, since I believe that we have advanced a small but significant step, having in view its important meaning not only for ourselves but also for the future of the revolutionary leadership in Argentina.\u201d
\nOur comrade Barragan, who came from Colombia in the early 80s, to be a militant of Nahuel Moreno\u2019s PST, closed the Congress saying, “Comrades, let us go with head held high, proud of ourselves, and let\u2019s fight for the Left Front, for the 1st of May, for inserting ourselves more deeply in the working class, for building a great youth, on the way to the seizure of power by the working class in Argentina. Long live the PSTU! Long live the LIT”.
\nThe PSTU is Internationalist, Proletarian, Socialist and Unified<\/strong>
\nThe PSTU arises not only as a result of our organizations unity, but also seeks to further respond to the deep needs of workers and the people. Our four key pillars to build this new party are:
\nFor the internationalism,<\/em><\/strong>
\nThe PSTU was born to fight for the building of an International. In face of the current crisis of capitalism and the hunger plans for the world, Marx’s phrase – “Workers of the world, unite\u201d’- is more timely than ever. The PSTU is just born and is calling us to build the International Workers’ League, the world revolutionary organization that is present in more than 25 countries, in Europe, in the USA, in Latin America and has supporters in other countries and continents. For many leftist organizations, internationalism is just propagandizing the world struggles; for PSTU it is to build a worldwide party with leaders of different countries aiming the Fourth International reconstruction.
\nFor a new political and trade union leadership<\/em><\/strong>
\nThe Peronism and their millionaire union leaders are responsible for our country\u2019s unbearable burden and also for the Public Education and Health serious setback, for the loss of full employment, for the casual work practices without access to social benefits. Therefore, we need another trade union and political leadership. The PSTU is born to fight for this task with a respectful attitude toward the new leadership of the current struggles and steadfastness in the defense of worker democracy.
\nTo fight for the socialism,<\/em><\/strong>
\nThere is no more room for workers in the capitalist Argentina, who offers only poverty, hunger and exploitation. The way out is a Socialist Argentina whose accomplishment is pursued by PSTU. However, we want to be clear:<\/strong> for PSTU, socialism has nothing to do with Chavez\u2019s proposal, by which he imposes a high incidence of poverty and misery for the Venezuelan workers; or Castro’s proposal in Cuba where people are experiencing serious difficulties with starvation wages and layoffs. In Cuba and in Venezuela there is no socialism, multinationals companies dominate and impose exploitation and misery – as throughout Latin America – and military governments cut democratic freedoms and prevent the people\u2019s organization and their protests. There is a dictatorship in Cuba and in Venezuela, where union and peasant leaders are assassinated.
\nThe socialism that we defend in PSTU and in LIT is the one that will put the immense wealth, today controlled by multinationals and large companies, at the disposal of the poor people. This is not possible under a military government or under capitalism; it is only possible under a workers\u2019 government, united to the peoples of Latin America and the world and which allows broader democratic freedoms, so that workers can express themselves, organize themselves and defend their conquests.
\nTo fight for a workers’ government<\/em><\/strong>
\nIn order to fight for a Socialist world, it is required a well prepared party with a firm method of construction, the democratic centralism, which is, currently, not taken into account and criticized by most currents. We advocate this method to construct an action party, to enable us to go on strikes and demonstrations, to intervene in the trade union actions of our class and to fight for the power. Democratic centralism is not the caricature that is portrayed by Stalinism and other reformist trends; it is the only method that guarantees its members the broadest internal democracy, and also the deepest unity in the action. Without a party with this method it will be impossible to impose a workers\u2019 government, which is the ultimate solution that we propose.
\nTo continue and to strengthen Morenoism<\/strong>
\nToday we are presenting a new newspaper,\u00a0Avanzada Socialista<\/em> (Socialist Vanguard), of a new party, the Unified Socialist Workers Party (PSTU).
\nHowever, we are not a new tendency. We are comrades who have been fighting for years in order to build a revolutionary party in Argentina. Some of us have been building, for 15 years, theSocialist Workers\u00a0 Front<\/em> (FOS), Argentinean section of the International Workers League-Fourth International (IWL). Others, the militants of the\u00a0Internationalist Workers Trend <\/em>(COI), have come from different backgrounds and took part in the construction of the\u00a0Convergence of the Left<\/em>, in 2009. In fact, all of us, although coming from different roads, have our roots in the tendency founded by Nahuel Moreno in our country, which for nearly 70 years has followed the struggles of the working class and the Argentinean people, fighting for a revolutionary program and for the political and organizational independence of the working class from all employers variants, specially the Peronism.
\nWe take as ours the heroic heritage of thousands of militants who, through dictatorships and short periods of democracy, have faced military governments, bourgeoisie’s governments and the trade union bureaucracy, who hate and fear the\u00a0Trotskos<\/em>as our tendency has always been identified.
\nWe take as ours the tradition of the Socialist Workers Party\u2019s missing militants who, in the 70’s, faced politically the guerrillas but physically the Triple A [Argentinean Anti-communist Alliance, paramilitary group that murdered leftist militants in the decade of 70] and the repression. All these resulted in the most developed attempt to construct a revolutionary leadership in our country, the old\u00a0MAS <\/em>(Movement to Socialism<\/em>).
\nThis tradition is expressed in the struggle of them all – from Moreno to the last militant – for the construction of a revolutionary international body. Currently, there are those in Argentina who call themselves\u00a0morenoist<\/em>, but have abandoned this revolutionary task years ago, vital to Moreno and his teacher, Leon Trotsky.
\nAnd there are many others who call themselves Trotskysts but use their creed and religion to defame our old comrade Nahuel and the\u00a0Morenoism<\/em>. To all of them we say:\u00a0 when speaking aboutMorenoism<\/em>, when attacking and accusing Moreno, have in mind that you are talking about us and with us. And be aware that we’ll defend this intimate tradition, which is part of the Argentinean labor movement\u2019s tradition, its revolutionary wing. We are in charge of defending this tradition and we are here to defend it. But not only in the terrain of memories and balance, but especially in the more concrete and essential terrain: the construction of a revolutionary direction in our country.
\nHence, the name of our party is PSTU, which recalls the PST of Moreno and its newspaper,AvanzadaSocialista<\/em>. But, we do not mislead ourselves; we know that these names make us \u201clook bigger”. But we are here to grow and fully deserve them. Some will say that these are names of the past. It is true, but for us they express a set of tasks that remain unfulfilled. A tradition and a method we claim as ours. We are here to enforce our efforts to advance them.
\nThis great party will only be possible if thousands of honest fighters workers, youth and popular organizations take it as theirs. We’re here and we will be here trying to set the first bricks, until the final victory.
\nCome on then, mate; come together with us, to build what History demands from the revolutionaries. Come to be part of a revolutionary International, the IWL-FI, and supporting reconstruction of IV Fourth International. This party is yours.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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