National Day of Protests throughout Argentina Demand an End to Massive Layoffs and Cut Backs in Social Services

February 15, 2018

Protestors defending access to public health in Buenos Aires. Photo: Bill Hackwell

More than 40,000 workers of the Confederation of Workers of the Popular Economy (CTEP), the Classist and Combative Current (CCC) and Neighborhoods On Their Feet (Barrios de Pie) marched along with other social movements and trade union organizations to the headquarters of the government of the province of Buenos Aires in La Plata, in the framework of a national day of struggle against all the governor offices in the country against austerity and the neo liberal policies of hunger coming from the Macri administration.

In La Plata they demanded the Governor of the Province of Buenos Aries, María Eugenia Vidal, issue a social and food emergency by allocating 25% of the public budget to the local cooperatives to address the growing needs of the poor and unemployed.

Meanwhile in Buenos Aires rush hour traffic was snarled as hundreds of vehicles flooded the main accesses to the Capital to bring the provincial and municipal demands to the National Government. Thousands of union workers of the public sector marched early in the afternoon along with social movements and the organized unemployed led primarily by women.

Major mobilizations also took place in in Catamarca, San Juan, Salta, Tucuman, Chaco, Santa Cruz, La Rioja, Mendoza, La Pampa, Rio Negro and other provinces as well.

The protests were a continuation of earlier demonstrations against Macri in December demanding an end to the economic adjustments and layoffs policy that are hitting working class communities of Argentina hard.

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Source: Resumen Latinoamericano