Film – 20 Years of The Polo Obrero// The Revolutionary Struggle Against Hunger and For Union Condition Jobs

This half-hour video report prepared by the audiovisual team of Prensa Obrera tells the story of the Polo Obrero, an organization of unemployed workers in Argentina which stems from the uprisings in the 90’s and in 2001. They have maintained and strengthened its presence during the governments of Mauricio Macri and Alberto Fernández, taking to the streets across the country with ever increasing numbers of workers, while organizations aligned to peronism and the Catholic church have become increasingly linked to the state. Growing unemployment and poverty under the IMF-imposed austerity plans of the different governments have made the piquetero movement more massive and its demands more urgent than ever. The struggle is explained by many of its participants in two decades of organizing.

Discussion after the film with Guillermo Kane – Central Committee member of the Partido Obrero of Argentina, twice elected state legislator of the Buenos Aires province on the ballots of the Left Unity Front. Organizer of the Polo Obrero in the populous La Matanza district.

20 Years of The Polo Obrero