For Unconditional Political Opposition fo Campora
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The following statement was issued on 15 May by the United Secretariat of the Fourth International.
The March 11 elections marked a turning point in the political situation in Argentina. The Peronist ground swell undermined the attempt of the Lanusse regime to put across the Gran Acuerdo Nacional and compelled the Argentine bourgeoisie to accept a neo-Peronist government. The incoming Campora administration will seek to exploit inter-imperialist contradictions and to gain mass support through populist demagogy.
In the final analysis, the turn in Argentina came as a consequence of the powerful mobilisations of the masses and the courageous actions of the vanguard. The resulting new situation will serve to step up the militancy of the working class and other exploited layers still further. Sectors of the army have not yet renounced attempts at.a reactionary coup d’etat even before the inauguration of Campora. This is because they fear that the new government will be swept aside in the near future. Nonetheless, a coup appears unlikely inasmuch as the decisive sectors of the ruling class are aware that it could provoke a very sharp response from the masses and the outbreak of a civil war, the outcome of which would be in doubt. In the new stage now opening up, the Argentine revolutionists will take their place in the front ranks of the coming mass mobilisations with . the perspective of a major confrontation and a struggle for power. Their objective will be to influence and to organise the vanguard layers that are slipping out of the control of the union bureaucracy and the demagogic ideology of Peronism. They will at the same time call for vigilance against any military coup d’etat and propose the development of workers’ self-defence. They will warn against any illusions in parliamentarism and gradualism. While not excluding critical support for possible anti-imperialist measures that might be enacted -by the Campora government, they will maintain an attitude of unconditional political opposition to this new bourgeois government. They will carry on an unceasing struggle for the emancipation of the working class from the influence of bourgeois ideology, the bourgeois political organisations, and the grip of the super-bureaucratised union apparatus. They will fight. for the independent organisation of the proletariat and other exploited layers with the perspective of establishing popular committees. They will battle for the building of a mass revolutionary Leninist party.