Argentina: Country in Turmoil
More background information on the crisis in Argentina can be found at www.indymedia.org
Source : Indymedia
Workers Stand Strong As Economy Falters
Dec 3 2001
In the face of a worsening economic crisis, Argentina's working and poor people are mobilizing for action. The newly-unemployed are joining road blockades around a "Workers' Area" in La Matanza and the southern area of Buenos Aires. Teachers and government workers are resisting plans for privitization, delayed salary, and payments in bonds. And mine workers in R? Turbio have occupied their mine in solidarity with their fired co-workers.
In Neuqu?, striking workers from the Zan? ceramics factory are meeting with the area's landless and unemployed in order to reopen their plant under worker control. The Zan? workers and their supporters were violently attacked by police forces on Friday. Workers were shot in the face with rubber pellets, chased into a nearby hospital and hunted down over a 15-block radius. The workers had been demonstrating in front of the Government House, demanding the reinstatement of 380 workers of the Zan? Ceramics plant and Cer?ica del Valle fired the previous day. The two-month old strike began when the company tried to roll back benefits won by the workers in a bitter struggle just one year ago.
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