I post the following call for an April 1, 2004 demonstration against police repression and murder in Argentina to give a taste of the current situation under capitalist rule. As I've pointed out, the question of state power, worker's power, is critical for the survival of the worker's movement. -Steve Argue

Partido Obrero (Workers' Party, Argentina) Press Secretariat www.po.org.ar

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Buenos Aires, April 1, 2003

Press Communiqué

Mobilization to the National Congress, April 1 at 7:00 pm.

The PO is mobilizing together with Family Victims of Police Murder "Familiares de Víctimas del Gatillo Fácil"

Trial and punishment for the murderers of Axel Blumberg

The Partido Obrero will participate tomorrow in the mobilization called by the father of the youth kidnapped and murdered, Axel Blumberg, which will take place April 1 at 7pm, in the Congress of the Nation, together with Family Victims of Police Murder, Zone North, where the greatest number of innocent people fallen due to the action of the security forces is concentrated. The Family Victims say: trial and punishment for those responsible for Axel's murder and for all of those fallen at the hands of the "easy trigger" [police murders], dissolution of the Buenos Aires police force, popular election of all judges by the people.

Behind the murder of Axel is to be found the complicity of the Buenos Aires police and the court system itself.

The Partido Obrero points out that the "iron hand" is already in force. The "iron hand" is applied every day by the Buenos Aires police by means of the 'easy trigger', the kids tortured inside the police stations, the murder of innocents. The prosecutors act without the intervention of judges as instruments of the police, just as Solá's "iron hand" law says they should.