The demonstration will occur on the 23rd anniversary of the 2001 social uprising that resulted in the resignation of President Fernando de la Rúa. The rally will condemn La Libertad Avanza’s measures, reject the presence of the International Monetary Fund, and defend the right to protest.

The represented groups will include Polo Obrero (PO), Frente de Izquierda, and Corriente por la Unidad del Sindicalismo Combativo y Democrático.

In a statement, the PO recalled that “in 2001 the people took to the streets to end the government of De la Rúa, Domingo Cavallo, Patricia Bullrich, and Federico Sturzenegger. It was an uprising led by the Piquetero movement and popular assemblies, against hunger, misery, and unemployment that grew with the Executive as an agent of big international financial capital.”

In its reminder, the PO noted that those thrown out at that time, returned disguised in libertarian clothing, to finish what they could not do for two decades. They boast of having carried out the largest adjustment in humanity,” which involved a million new destitute people among those under 16 years of age, doubling poverty among the elderly, destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs, defunding public health and education.

The organization warns that the current administration intends to apply a labor reform that destroys collective agreements, privatizes the pension system, charges fees for universities, puts hospitals under private concession, and hand over natural resources to foreign monopolies, starting with a Free Trade Agreement with the United States.

The protesters will oppose the alignment of the Argentine government with Washington and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. They will also condemn the genocide against the Palestinian people carried out by Israel.

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