Argentine

In Argentina the CGT is calling a strike on 24 January against the anti-worker measures taken by Javier Milei, the far-right president. A few days after taking office, Milei published a Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) amending more than 300 existing laws; it covers various aspects of the economy, finance and labour law among others.Among the measures that have had a brutal impact on the working class are: decontrolling prices for foodstuffs and basic necessities that had before been regulated (meat, flour, dairy products, etc.); the abolition of the « sliding scale of pensions », which had provided for three annual increases in the amount of pensions; decontrolling fuel prices; the end of subsidies on electricity, gas and tap-water rates, the increase of transport fares; the privatisation of public companies; the repeal of the law regulating rents; decontrolling the prices of medicines; and the liberalisation of imports. The gains won by workers in their historic struggles [...]