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On the streets in Argentina, the rebellion grows
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG

THE central committee of Argentina’s oldest and largest trade union confederation, the CGT, has announced that there will be a general strike on April 10, to protest against the anti-worker policies of President Javier Milei’s right-wing administration.
The organisation’s leadership has been put under considerable pressure by its constituent unions to take action as thousands of jobs in both the public and private sectors have been lost.
Since the last general strike almost a year ago, the real value of wages has fallen dramatically in the face of persistent inflation, and legislation has been introduced to curtail employment rights, during which time there has been a growing perception that the CGT was missing in action.
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