Nicolas Wiñazki
10/17/2020 10:11 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 10/18/2020 12:55 PM
"Divided by Happiness"
is called a song by Sumo, the remembered group of Luca Prodan.
"The Peronist Boys / All
united we will triumph,
" says the lyrics of the Peronist March, always in the voice of Hugo del Carril.
"There is no future (God Save the Queen)", Jonny Rotten sang with his Sex Pistols.
Three songs that have nothing in common could come together in a political link to
describe the current scenario
that exists in the organized labor movement that is referred to in the Justicialist Party (PJ).
There is a break
between the Argentine union bosses.
And nothing more and nothing less was made explicit than in the celebration of the 75th Anniversary of October 17, the day Peronism was born.
The General Central of Workers (CGT)
was divided
into a day of supposed happiness for its leaders, affiliates and followers.
Part of its general secretaries accompanied President Alberto Fernández yesterday in a ceremony at the central headquarters of that labor union, accompanied by the leadership of La Cámpora, the youth group K, and other important references of traditional Peronism, with a present body and also remotely due to the virtuality imposed by the coronavirus.
New normalities: in the historic Felipe Vallese room, an environment accustomed to riots, the social distance recommended to prevent the spread of Covid-19 was respected with few presence of few guests.
La Cámpora's leadership in the CGT building
was intolerable
for a large part of its board of directors.
The CGT then ended by celebrating the anniversary of October 17
with three different acts.
Last Friday, the multiple unions that are grouped in the CGT Azul y Blanca, led by Luis Barrionuevo, made their act of homage to Perón, separated from their "companions."
The Secretary General of Gastronomic, former President Eduardo Duhalde, the former Secretary of Commerce K, Claudia Rucci (provincial senator of the PJ and daughter of the secretary general of the CGT favorite of Perón, José Rucci, assassinated by the guerrilla group Montoneros);
along with other unionists;
and the intellectual Julio Bárbaro, led this
"separatist"
political action
with an event of their own at the monument to Perón that stands on Paseo Colón and Avenida Belgrano.
The only speaker was one of the three members of the trio led by the CGT, Carlos Acuña, general secretary of the service station employees.
In his speech, Acuña praised Perón but criticized the President with a conciliatory tone: "This labor movement supports all democratically elected governments,
but you don't have to be a pimp on duty
. What is not right, is not right. And the people. Argentine today is not good at all, ”he said, among other phrases of the same style.
Duhalde, who calls himself a friend of Alberto Fernández but whom he criticizes in public stating that he does it in a constructive way, made apocalyptic statements after that act, a concept that he deepened yesterday:
"There is no future"
, he released about Argentina in a report with CNN Radio's "Teen Country" program.
Duhalde thus moved away from the words of Perón's doctrine and unknowingly quoted Sid Vicious, from "Sex Pistols", who shouted that bleak slogan in one of his most popular songs: the aforementioned "There is no future (God Save the Queen)".
Duhalde even, like the punks of the '70s but in another sense, assured that today we live in the country devastated by crises of different kinds, a state of "pre-anarchy."
The
third act
of the CGT party was the one organized by the leader of the truckers, Hugo Moyano, together with the secretary general of SMATA metallurgists, Ricardo Pignanelli, and the taxi drivers' union.
They coordinated an outpost that, from mid-morning to midday, filled 9 de Julio Avenue and Plaza de Mayo with trucks, taxis and cars with union identifications.
The Moyanos, father and son, had previously met with the President and with one of his most trusted officials, the Secretary for Strategic Affairs, Gustavo Beliz.
They did not go to the CGT.
They preferred to show themselves separately to try to show their street or vehicular power in another space.
At first, the act of the CGT was to be unified among all the unions that make up that workers' union.
I do not pass.
The idea of the President being the speaker in an act ended up dividing the Peronist unions, above all, because Fernández and his organizing committee on October 17 imposed that the president
would be accompanied by the head of the PJ deputies, Máximo Kirchner, and other leaders of La Cámpora, such as the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo De Pedro and the mayor of Quilmes, Mayra Mendoza
.
Seventy-five years after October 17, the day on which the Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare of the military regime was acclaimed by his followers who mobilized to the Federal Capital from the Buenos Aires suburbs after learning that their reference had been arrested for his own government, and that ended with the founder of the PJ going out to the balcony of the Casa Rosada to greet the "workers", whom he asked for "brotherhood" and "union", the general secretaries of the Peronist CGT cannot yet pay your debts with the past.
For the CGT Azul y Blanca, from Barrionuevo, it was an
"incoherence" that the leaders of La Cámpora were present at the act of its labor union.
And "christinism".
They are general secretaries of unions that still consider current officials who identify with the Peronist left as
partisan enemies.
Barrionuevo summarized before
Clarín
, in a brutal way, why the most powerful unions in the country were divided: "We have nothing to do with
the leaders who defend those who killed Rucci
. That they have been in the CGT, together with Máximo Kirchner, who criticized the labor movement from his seat as a deputy, is a total incoherence. "
Were there former Montoneros militants linked to that shooting attack that killed Rucci on September 25, 1973 at yesterday's act in the CGT?
For Barrionuevo it does not matter.
It does give relevance to the symbolisms: "I don't care if they are the children of the Montoneros, putative or not. Kirchnerism cannot commemorate its loyalty to Perón in the CGT when it always
denied it
during the years of the Kirchners in power.
the possibility for the Peronist unions to even celebrate masses in homage to Rucci
".
Rucci's death was not settled among the Peronists either, despite the time that passed since the deadly attack that took the leader of the Metallurgical Union of Workers (UOM) by surprise.
The current secretary general of that union, Antonio Caló, supported the act of the President and La Cámpora in the CGT.
Barrionuevo says: "There are hypocrites who forget who killed Rucci and submit to the power of the day."
At his act to honor the 75th anniversary of October 17, Rucci was also honored.
That death, which occurred two days after the electoral triumph of Juan Perón in 1973, whose return to the country had among its main operators the then secretary general of the UOM, is also
a historical wound
that current Peronists identified with Kirchnerism are not able to pay either.
On September 18, the Buenos Aires deputies of the ruling K refused to discuss a project to pay tribute to José Rucci, proposed, perhaps not without paradox, by a legislator from Together for Change, Mauricio Viviani.
Today, the CGT leadership is made up of a triumvirate: Héctor Daer, from Health, friend of Alberto Fernández and host of the President and La Cámpora at the "official" act of the CGT;
Acuña, aligned with Barrionuevo and the orthodox of the PJ;
and the Moyano family, who always seek
total power
to return to the leadership of the Peronist workers' central;
and Juan Carlos Schmidt, from Dragado y Balizamiento.
Moyano made a separate mobilization, say qualified union sources, because he sought to
show street power
, aligned with the President, but separately from the official CGT and Barrionuevo's Azul Blanca.
Always according to sources from the CGT, Hugo Moyano promotes and works so that his son, Pablo Moyano, general secretary of Truckers,
reaches the general secretary of the PJ labor union.
Pablo Moyano is suffering from serious judicial problems in a case that will be brought to trial for his alleged leadership in an illicit association that did spurious business with the finances of the Independiente club (chaired by his father Hugo) and the Truckers union.
Yesterday's scenario, with a divided CGT, could
be a preview of the fight that comes within the PJ labor movement
and in the midst of one of the worst economic crises in national history.
While
the Government hopes to unify the leadership
of the workers' central in a single leader, such as Héctor Daer, close to the Casa Rosada, the rest of the union bosses such as Barrionuevo and Moyano, refuse to allow that to happen.
The CGT could then once again be led by a new triumvirate.
Cámpora, Perón, Rucci.
The past is present in the Argentine Republic.