48 Years After the Military Coup, Tens of Thousands in Argentina Take to the Streets Against Denialism and the Far Right
By Left Voice
March 29, 2024
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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Argentina on March 24 to demand justice for the victims of the state and the military dictatorship of 1976. This year, the annual march had renewed significance, defying the far-right government’s denialism and attacks against the working class and poor.
This Sunday, March 24, tens of thousands of people filled the streets of Buenos Aires and Argentina’s biggest cities to demand “memory, truth, and justice” for the victims of state violence. This annual day of action is held in remembrance of the 30,000 people who were disappeared, murdered, or tortured during the military dictatorship of 1976 to 1983, whose atrocities are most recognizably embodied in the figure of Jorge Rafael Videla, the leader of the military junta that seized control of the government. This year, the march had renewed relevance in light of the explicit denialism advanced by the government of far-right president Javier Miliei, especially in the last several weeks. Sunday’s mobilizations also occurred in a context of increased struggle and resistance against the government’s austerity measures.
During the rise and seizure of power by the military junta from 1974 to 1983, the state crushed an entire generation of activists, young people, and workers who fought to build a society free from exploitation and oppression and who gave their lives in the struggle for liberation. As part of the Condor Plan, the Argentinian dictatorship systematically organized the political disappearance of thousands of activists who had been at the forefront of the great mobilizations of the 1970s in the country. It carried out this large-scale project of state-sponsored violence with the political, economic, and military support of the United States and other imperialist powers.
This year, the march takes on new dimensions in the era of Milei. Argentina faces an acute economic crisis that is drastically eating away at the living conditions of the working class and poor in Argentina and which has accelerated in recent years and over the course of several administrations. Each successive government — right and left alike — has organized austerity measures in the interests of major international and national economic companies and according to the draconian measures imposed by the IMF.
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