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Saturday November 01, 2003 11:14

by ipsiphi

The workers of the Brukman almost two years on are winning their case!

{"for being in the main women,
{"for demonstrating how to stop redundancy"
{"for leaping from the most brutal of oppression and being an example of dignity, The Workers of Brukman were converted into a symbol and pendant of Argentina in the world"}

Many readers will remember the events in Argentina two years ago, and with good reason, the failure of the banking system could not easily be kept from the Television screens.
But for those who don't, on two keys night of 2001 Argentina went into a popular revolt and assemblies and collectives throughout the country inspired the world yet again.

Of the many sites and names, perhaps Saurez and Brukman are the ones that still will provoke recognition.
Brukman was the most well known factory claimed by it's workers when the owners went "pop". They famously occupied it on December 18 2001. They continued to work, fulfill their contracts, exceed production targets, continue to export their products through the darkest days of the Argentine economic collapse to the "recovery" period of 2002. They increased productivity, they were in many ways through their anarcho-syndicalist assembly _proved_ the efficacy of a political ideology. And then when the "recovery" came, the previous "owners" sued to recover their business [complete with it's increased "value"].

That legal process is now almost at an end, and last night Argentina indymedia were delighted to put the news as a feature on their front page.
I recommend visiting the site and using the links to photographs of the Brukman workers as they are this week, and as they were almost two years ago.

Http://argentina.indymedia.org

meanwhile:
{"for being in the main women,
{"for demonstrating how to stop redundancy"
{"for leaping from the most brutal of oppression and being an example of dignity, The Workers of Brukman were converted into a symbol and pendant of Argentina in the world"}

{"They suffered three evictions the last being a brutal battle which saw 10,000 workers made redundant at the point of tear gas and police batons."}

photos of the workers at the court:
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2003/10/146022.php

¡ Workers without Bosses !
¡ que se vayan todos !