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Buenos Aires: Supporting Pensioners’ Struggles

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Participating in the Regional Meeting of TUI Pensioners of the Americas

September 24, 2026

Today in Buenos Aires was a day marked by action, meetings and international solidarity. Our activities began in the streets of the Argentine capital, where we participated in the pensioners’ demonstration, together with workers, trade union organizations and representatives of the pensioners’ movement.

The International Trade Union Organization of Pensioners and Retirees was represented by its Deputy General Secretary, Anda Anastasaki, who addressed the demonstration on behalf of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) and the International Trade Union Organization of Pensioners and Retirees, conveying a militant message of solidarity with the struggles of pensioners. Also present were Mirta Maldonado from Paraguay, Coordinator of the Pensioners of the Americas, and Julio Gambina, head of the pensioners’ movement in Argentina.

With banners, flags and slogans, pensioners raised their demands for the defense of pensions, social security and social rights.

in the afternoon , the Regional Meeting of Pensioners of the Americas of the International Trade Union Organization of Pensioners and Retirees took place, bringing together representatives of pensioners’ and trade union organizations from Chile, Peru Colombia Mexico Puerto Rico Venezuela Uruguay Paraguay Brazil Nicaragua Panama Haiti Honduras and Bolivia

The works of the conference started with a video greeting of Suim Boix secretary general of the TUI and the speech of the Deputy Secretary General

The discussions focused on the challenges facing pensioners across the countries of the Americas, the defense of social security and pension rights, and the need to strengthen coordination, solidarity and common action.

Today’s activities brought together struggle in the streets, international trade union cooperation and coordination, sending a strong message of solidarity and common action among pensioners across borders.

Buenos Aires, 23 September 2026

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Class War and Market Predation

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We must be clear: the assault on Argentine retirees is a direct attack on the entire working class. While the capitalist media distracts us with the president’s erratic social media outbursts, we recognize these as a smokescreen for the systemic dismantling of our social security. We refuse to be passive observers as the wealth we generated through decades of labor is handed over to private financiers and local oligarchs under the guise of austerity.

This is not a crisis of leadership—it is a brutal class war.

Our demand is non-negotiable: we must establish a new public, non-state, pay-as-you-go, and solidarity-based pension system. This structure must be managed and administered directly by those it serves: active and retired workers. We refuse any attempt at privatization or the further erosion of our dignity by a government that views the elderly as liabilities rather than the builders of our nation’s heritage. The struggle of the retirees is the struggle of every union member today.

International Solidarity Against Capital

The core issue is not the president’s personality, but the predatory capitalist agenda he enforces. As rival factions of the right-wing elite squabble over the spoils of the state, the working class continues to suffer. Whether it is the internal corruption of 'Freedom Advances' or the boardroom battles between industrial giants like Paolo Rocca and the Clarín Group, the outcome for us is always the same: austerity, layoffs, and the theft of our futures. We stand with those defending public education, healthcare, and science against a 'lion' who is nothing more than a puppet for global capital. No worker is left behind in this fight.

Argentina, May 18, 2026
NATIONAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE OF RETIREES' AND PENSIONERS' ORGANIZATIONS OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC