The government is accelerating its program of adjustment and concentration of economic power and the affected socioeconomic sectors are, at the same time, forced to speed up their responses. Within this new dynamic, a large group of SME industrial leaders, cooperative organizations, retirees and other defenders of the preservation of natural resources, launched an initiative to form “a permanent space that acts in a leading way, as a political subject, in the formulation and execution of government measures that involve our sectors”.
In this sense, they announced this Friday that they will request meetings with the different legislative opposition blocks to express their rejection of the deregulatory DNU and will participate in the march called by the labor movement on Wednesday, in front of the Courts, to demand the annulment, as unconstitutional, of said instrument.
This new formation, May 25 Productive Movement, integrates leaders from different SME movements that until now acted divided in defending the interests of national capital and the internal market. Likewise, the presence of leaders of dozens of cooperative organizations, social enterprises and self-managed workers, territorial productive councils, and women’s movements was reflected in the MP-25M call, who, in the face of the emergency, agreed on the call to “advance towards unity of identification and action”.
This is not the only movement that has expressed itself in response to the urgency of coming to the fore of a policy that threatens to cause a social catastrophe in a few weeks. The Economy and Work Forum, a space created under the initiative of important unions (with banking and graphics at the head) and which has the support of SMEs, cooperatives and various study centers, published a new document critical of the policies promoted from the government.
Under the title “Necessary and Urgent to repeal Decree 70/2023”, the document qualifies as “a coup d’état” the scope of that instrument by “usurping parliamentary powers, deepening the adjustment on the majority of Argentines after a megadevaluation that liquefied salaries, pensions and savings.” The current president, he points out, “he is doing the complete opposite of what he promised during his campaign: adjust by reducing the benefits of what he calls “caste.”
“The families that will suffer the consequences of unbridled inflation are not chaste; nor are the tenants exposed to the effects of the repeal of the rental law. The merchants and consumers who will suffer the increased cost of using credit cards and the SMEs subject to the reduction of the internal market,” he points out.
Through new types of organizations, different expressions of the popular economy, both workers and different modalities of productive capital, seek to come together in self-defense to intervene in a political debate that, until now, has them simply as victims of a new structural reform. , like those of the dictatorship and Menemism, in favor of concentrated capital.