Declaration of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International solidarity with the pst! Terror against combative workers and revolutionary militants in Argentina has been steadily on the rise for months. Bombing and machine-gun attacks have been carried out against the headquarters of workers political organizations and even against the headquarters of trade unions led by class-struggle tendencies. Militants have been kidnapped, beaten, and tortured by commandos. Cases of militants being murdered have been many. Some of these crimes have been committed by members of parallel police organizations that include in their ranks torturers who are well known for their acts during the military dictatorship. Others have been the work of far-right terrorist groups working in collaboration with the Peronist trade-union bureaucracy. But in both sorts of cases, these crimes could not have been committed were it not for the obvious complicity of the bourgeois state apparatus and government. They correspond to the efforts of Argentine and imperialist big capital to prevent growing sectors of the working class from escaping the control of the Peronist bureaucratic apparatus, from rejecting the practices of class collaboration, and from taking to a resolutely anticapitalist road. Because of the strength of the Argentine working class and workers movement, that would represent a mortal threat to the survival of capitalism in the country• These terrorist attacks have fallen with ever increasing severity on the Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores (PST -Socialist Workers party), a sympathizing section of the Fourth International in Argentina. From May 1973 to May 1974 this party has suffered some twenty attacks of this sort. In May
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1974 comrade Carlos Pedroni, a member of the PST and a leader of the commercial employees in the city of Mar del Plata, was gravely wounded. In the northern part of greater Buenos Aires comrades Inosencio "Indio" Fernández, a leader of the metalworkers; Oscar Dalmacio Mesa, a workers leader in a shipyard; Mario Sida, a textile worker; and Antonio Moses, a metalworker -- all of them members of the PST -were wantonly assassinated. The Fourth International fully shares the indignant grief of the PST and the families and workmates of the murdered militants. It extends to the comrades of the PST and to the whole Argentine workers and revolutionary vanguard its fraternal solidarity in the struggle they are now waging against capitalist repression and far-right terror. It calls on all sections and sympathizing groups of the Fourth International to launch vigorous campaigns to lead the whole workers movement in their countries to defend the PST and the other Argentine organizations hit by the antiworker repression and terror. The Fourth International calls on all Argentine workers organizations -- irrespective of their programmatic, strategic, or tactical divergences -- to form a united class front for the common defense of the workers movement and of all its militants against far-right terror. It calls on them to count only on their own forces in the fight for this goal and to form workers self-defense groups based on broad mass mobilizations -the only way to break the far-right's terrorist offensive and to beat back the fascist threat. July 3, 1974