LEADING members of left wing and trade union organisations in Argentina are in prison or facing arrest following a 500-strong demonstration of unemployed workers in the southern province of Neuquén on October 2.
The marchers had been demanding payment of benefits owing to them, but withheld as a result of President Menem's austerity drive.
The demonstration was violently repressed by police. and the local government has now unleashed a witchhunt against the left, and especially against Trotskyist organisations whose members are accused of instigating the disturbances.
Horacio Panario, a leading member of the Movement or Socialism (MAS) is In lait and warrants have been issued for the arrest of other members or mas and the state employees' union arrest are members of the So(MST), and Workers Party (PO).
Argentine socialists are lease of Horacio Panario and other lett lesders. and an end to all legal proceedings against working class mililang