Argentinian Workers Occupy Factories

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Some 7,000 workers occupied 66 factories on May 21st in protest against the rising cost of living and demanding wage increases. The General Workers' Confederation will organise similar occupations in some 600 factories over the next week. According to Times correspondent: "Senor Jose Alonso, secretary of the GWC, said the Government as constituted was inoperative and it wasnecessary to change the whole system, a statement which the , employers' organisations regarded as being subversive...in spite of the Government's repeated assurances that foreign capital enjoys its fullest guarantees, another crisis is develo *g and what is worrying most observers is that if it continues it might lea. to armed intervention." Although the Argentinian working class is displaying tremendous militancy it is unfortunately likely, as before, that the Peronista leadership will fail to give an adequate political dimension to the struggle.