Union, political and social organizations prepare acts for May 1

The CGT will hold its own act on Tuesday the 2nd at the Club Defensores de Belgrano stadium. Photo Pepe Mateos.
The different social, political and union movements are in full organization of various events for the International Workers’ Day which is commemorated on May 1st.

General Confederation of Labor

The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) decided to hold its own act, but on Tuesday the 2nd at the Club Defensores de Belgrano stadium, and ratified the call for a political-economic and social consensus to emerge from the crisis, while spoke for “an inclusive model with social justice”.

📌The CGT called an act for May 2 and ratified the need for consensus to get out of the crisis pic.twitter.com/01Lse1kUGs

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Central of the Workers of the Autonomous Argentina

The Confederation of Workers of Autonomous Argentina (CTAA), together with Peronist and leftist social movements will mobilize on Monday 1 in “the context of the current plan to fight various lawsuits” and in “rejection of the policies of the International Monetary Fund” (IMF), spokesmen for the sector informed Télam.

The national leadership of the workers’ union led by the state Hugo Godoy and the medical visitor Ricardo Peidro deliberated this Thursday to analyze “the steps to follow” in the context of the plan of struggle initiated on March 7 and ratified on April 12 with another protest.

The CTAA, together with Peronist and leftist social movements, will mobilize on Monday, May 1.
The leaders indicated in a document that the CTAA will mobilize with other union currents on May 1st against the IMF, although the members of its leadership have not yet defined the final destination of that march.

Godoy spoke at the meeting about “the critical economic and social situation of the popular sectors” and stressed “the importance of continuing the plan of struggle with new measures of force in May until reaching June with a national strike together with the popular camp.” .

Evita Movement, CCC and UTEP

the CTAA organize the mobilization together with the referents of the Evita Movement, the Classist and Combative Current (CCC), the Classist Union Coordinator and the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP).

The Evita Movement will be together with the CCC and UTEP).
“On May 1st there will be a mobilization to claim the working class as the engine to face the adjustment policies under the conditions of the IMF. The plan of struggle to recover full work and decent wages, sovereignty and so that the 40 years of democracy do not only serve to vote or produce individual conquests, because there will be no real and full democracy until hunger ends,” the document released said.

left parties

Meanwhile, the left will have various calls for that day, depending on the internal ones within that space.

The nucleated parties Left Front Unity (FIU) will march from 3:00 p.m. to Plaza de Mayo. “On May 1st we are going to a great labor and internationalist act with the Unity Left Front,” it was reported from that sector.

Myriam Bregman will be a speaker at the event of the parties grouped in the Unity Left Front.
As they specified, Clément Allochon will participate in the act as a speakera young man French railway worker which is part of the fight against Emmanuel Macron in France, and also Myriam Bregman, national deputy of the PTS-Left Front and a presidential candidate.

For their part, the referents of Labor Policy Jorge Altamira and Marcelo Ramal They convene an act that will take place from 3:00 p.m. in Parque Lezama, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Telmo.

Finally, the New More led by Manuela Castañeira will hold an act starting at 2:00 p.m. at the Picadero Theater, located meters from Callao and Corrientes avenues, in downtown Buenos Aires.