In the days leading up to 12 December 2019 in Paris, New York and even Montreal in a temperature of -13°C, Algerians organized themselves in front of the polling stations to put the case for voters not to endorse the electoral masquerade. They wanted to set an example from the outside to the Algerian people. This gave confidence to the people to contest the presidential election called by the de facto regime in order to ensure its continuity.
The PT, the FFS and the PST are thus placed before a historic responsibility. In no case should the work of building/rebuilding grassroots movement be opposed to the joint action of political forces at the top.
Recent uprisings in Sudan and Algeria have avoided mistakes of 2011.
Algerians are creating their own history in a context of a backward capitalism dependent on another global capitalism in crisis. It is also this problem that the debate around a constituent assembly will try to settle.
The PST reiterates its call for the imperative self-organization of the popular masses, the mobilization of workers for the reappropriation of the UGTA and their union structure and the implementation of conditions allowing the election of a constituent assembly sovereign and representative of our democratic and social aspirations.
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