Some\u00a0of the\u00a0leading members of the Trotskyist LOI-DO of Argentina have been subjected to house searches and confiscation of documents and cell phones by legal authorities on false charges of fraud. This is a capitalist state persecution of the “Movement for Workers’ Democracy” and an attack on the workers’ movement internationally.<\/p>\n
The Liaison Committee of Communists strongly supports the call for a campaign to fight the persecution of the socialist fighters of LOI-DO, to drop all charges and end the persecution of militants by the state.<\/p>\n
We reproduce part of the Press Release of the Movement for Workers Democracy\u00a0 below (any translation errors are ours).<\/p>\n
Communist Workers Group (USA)
\nCommunist Workers Group (A\/NZ)
\nRevolutionary Workers Group (Zimbabwe)<\/p>\n
STOP THE ATTACKS AND PERSECUTION OF THE SOCIALIST FIGHTERS!<\/p>\n
Against the Trotskyists, no. Against us, no. We are with Aleppo and the workers and exploited who in Syria fight against the genocide to Al Assad on behalf of imperialism!<\/p>\n
Out with the judges of Mossad like the fascist Melazo and the bosses justice that attack the Socialist workers and fighters!<\/p>\n
October 1st, 2012\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n[…]On Wednesday, in simultaneous raids, in several houses of Argentinian socialist revolutionary leaders some with more than 40 years in the national political arena, were raided. The office of the labor lawyer Viviana Noguerol was raided also. She is member of the Promotion Board of \u201cMovimiento por la Democracia Obrera\u201d (Movement for Workers Democracy) in Argentina.<\/p>\n Days before, Paula Medrano was phoned by the UFI 8 of the city La Plata in charge of Mar\u00eda Victoria Huergo, prosecuting attorney of complex crimes in the […] public prosecutor office where C\u00e9sar Melazo, the Magistrate of \u201cguarantees\u201d works.<\/p>\n Paula Medrano is a “daughter of the disappeared” of La Plata city. She had called the tribunal and public prosecutor\u2019s office asking if the corpse of her mother had appeared in the year and a half since the corpse of her father \u201cappeared\u201d. The phone call in reply was to inform her that the prosecutor’s office had found cause to charge her with “fraud”.<\/p>\n[…] As already happened with leaders of Quebracho 5-6 years ago, this fascist judge Melazo now accuses worker and popular fighters of \u201cfraud\u201d and \u201ctheft\u201d as a means of political persecution. We face a repetition of this proceedure, this time against socialist leaders, labour lawyers, intellectuals, and sons and daughters of disappeared. They have been targeted\u00a0 by the Bonaerense Police (from Buenos Aires Province) […].<\/p>\n The judge Melazo, last April 2, said in the press that \u201chere is a punch of the Quebrachitos – that hid their faces – till we\u00a0 break their faces\u201d. Thus, this magistrate called for an attack like the murderous Bonaerense Police made when they \u201cwent to punch the picketers in Puente Pueyrredon\u201d that killed Kostequi and Santill\u00e1n in 2002. Some of the killers were caught not because a judge was investigating the Bonaerense police but because they were filmed by journalists at the moment when they killed the comrades in Avellaneda Station.<\/p>\n We are facing a provocation. The raids against socialists including detention of people at their home address. People that have nothing to do with the search warrant and were detained in public, in the street like ordinary thieves. Dozens of policemen and prosecuting attorneys trashed the houses and lawyer\u2019s offices seizing papers, mobile phones and computers. They sought telephone numbers, personal notebooks, names, ransacked wardrobes, turned mattresses over. They carefully checked the books on Marxism and socialism found in the houses one by one.<\/p>\n The witnesses that supposedly \u201cwere passing by on the street\u201d were arrested without the knowledge of anybody. […] the police and experts opened their computers and mobile phones without the physical presence of the proprietors of the housing and without their permission […]\n[…] Nobody should be surprised by this attack, when the Macri, Chief of Government of the Ciudad de Buenos Aires is accused of listening telephone conversations of citizens demanding their rights. Nothing can be odd when all the political originators of the assassinations on December 20, 2001 are free, as well as of the assassination of Kostequi and Santill\u00e1n and the thousands cases of \u201ceasy trigger\u201d against the Argentinean youth, among others.<\/p>\n[…] Of course, we will show, neither before judges of the dictatorship nor their prosecuting attorneys living in La Recoleta, but before the eyes of the working class and workers of Argentina and the world that the true criminal gangs are those who steal the rivers, minerals, water, oil, the Central Bank, 50.000 millions of dollars of the savers while\u00a0 all the bankers remain free.<\/p>\n[…] we will denounce not before judges who belonged to the CNU, the fascists of the Triple A who killed students in Mar del Plata, who in partnership with Mossad persecute the fighters for the Palestinian cause. While the Triple A has kidnapped some of us it has not intimidated us.\u00a0 Neither did the military dictatorship intimidate us, let alone, the CIA, Mossad and CNU\u2019s judges against which we fight.<\/p>\n[…] Facing the provocation, against the courts of the oligarchy, we call for a public tribunal of the workers organizations and those who stand for true democracy to bring to trial the judges of the dictatorship, their collaborators, the prosecuting attorneys and the oligarchy and expropriators of the people. We will investigate them. We will judge them. And before the eyes of the people we will show they are impostors.<\/p>\n[..]The internationalist socialists of world working class organizations will denounce the persecution of our comrades of Argentina because they dared to lead the Campaign of international solidarity with the workers and people massacred by genocides in Libya, Syria and Palestine. We accuse the political chiefs of these judges and the State as responsible. They are the agents of the oligarchy and imperialism that pillages the nation.<\/p>\n We know that these threatens and arrogance and this attack against the democratic freedoms are a respond to a relentlessly fight in defense of the interests of the workers all around the world and in particular of the Argentinian workers.<\/p>\n[…] The UFI 8 says it has an expert team with the best technology to solve \u201ccomplex crimes\u201d. They say to have the \u201cbest men\u201d and the \u201cbest technology\u201d\u2026so, why don\u2019t they find the kidnappers of Julio L\u00f3pez if they are able to solve so many \u201ccomplex crimes\u201d? If they are of such “high quality\u201d and \u201cefficiency\u201d where is Julio L\u00f3pez?\u00a0 […] where is the young Luciano Arruga and Daniel Solano-delegate of the agriculture workers? Until they fi find them this is living proof that they only catch \u201cchicken thieves\u201d and allow the kidnappers, the murderous military-men, the corrupted politicians, and the transnational companies, plunderers of the nation, to go free.<\/p>\n We know that we will get the support of the organizations that fight for democratic freedoms; the socialist and worker organizations of the world that support the fighters in Syria and Libya; those that in Wall Street and in Europe fight against the capitalists\u00b4 attacks. Those who fight for the freedom of the prisoners of Guantanamo, Chile, Colombia, Palestine will be side by side with us.<\/p>\n[..] Thousands of worker fighters have been under prosecution for \u201cthe crime\u201d of asking for what belongs to them with justice. The capitalists\u2019 state needs hostages and worker organizations with their leaders having \u201cthe Damocles sword\u201d over their head so they will surrender rather than openly fight against this rotten society. And they speak about \u201cdemocracy\u201d when there are thousands of worker fighters under charges and hundreds of youth killed by the police. Even they speak about \u201cdemocracy\u201d when there are peasant peoples massacred to take away their lands like Qom in Formosa, and there are policemen sent by judges of the same quality of Melazo and other repressors that in order to defend the exploiters\u2019 lands don\u2019t need signed search warrants, or orders for assassinations and humiliations of all kind.<\/p>\n[…] This is one more of so many political fights that our socialist movement has made in the Argentinean, Latin American, and world working class. In the particular case of the \u201cMovimiento por la Democracia Obrera\u201d of Argentina which has begun its campaign to stand in the next electoral campaign to present, this time with electoral legal status, its positions in public. This provocation is aimed at preventing\u00a0 a socialist, independent, and intransigent voice being heard denouncing the interests of the exploiters and their political representatives in Argentina. They will not achieve it. We know of the great national and international solidarity that we will get through this appeal.<\/p>\n[…] The \u201cMovimiento por la Democracia Obrera\u201d is member of an international movement in support of the Syrian masses to stop the genocide of Al Assad on behalf of all the imperialist powers of the world. We take up again the socialist tradition of the Argentinian workers that in the \u00b430s sent volunteers, money and medicine to the battlefield in Spain against Francoism. We know that the \u201cfranquist\u201d Argentineans of today are the ones attacking us and they want to stop us. They will not achieve it.<\/p>\n Paula Medrano Some\u00a0of the\u00a0leading members of the Trotskyist LOI-DO of Argentina have been subjected to house searches and confiscation of documents and cell phones by legal authorities on false charges of fraud. This is a capitalist state persecution of the “Movement for Workers’ Democracy” and an attack on the workers’ movement internationally. 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\nViviana Noguerol
\nJuan Pico
\nW.M.
\nClarification:
\n[…] Melazo ordered no less than 25 raids. What he found in these raids is secret.
\nWhat supposedly he found in the houses of the fighters members of the \u201cMovimiento por la Democracia Obrera\u201d that they had during a week confiscated by the SIDE, Mossad and Bonaerense will be exposed in a \u201cpublic expert\u00b4s report\u201d\u2026since this note was already in the street and they knew about its existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"