The stories of the working class's struggle travel from the past to the present, feeding the current fight. Nothing stops the march that, every week for over two years, retirees have been holding at the Congress against the destruction of their incomes. A struggle that also exposes the passivity and complicity of the labor unions: 'Come and see, come and see: retirees are teaching the CGT how to fight,' is sung every Wednesday despite the bullets, tear gas, beatings, and the criminal shot at photographer and activist Pablo Grillo. Over half an hour, the film explores through the testimonies of Zulema, Eduardo, and Carlos the demands that retirees have been making for decades in front of the Congress. A production that over half an hour explores, pays homage to, and rescues the struggle of retirees who every week demand against the liquidation of their incomes in front of the Congress. Retirees teach us to fight. Next Monday, December 22, at 6 p.m., at Mu Trinchera Boutique (Riobamba 143, CABA), the militant film collective Silbando Bembas will premiere its short film: 'Retirees Teach'. The struggle is long, and retirees know it, that is why: 'Neither the insults from the president and ministers, nor the police fences, nor the systematic repression. In a context where attacks on the working people are intensifying, we bet on building spaces for debate and fraternal exchange.' Starring: Zulema Palavecino, Eduardo Martínez, and Carlos Dawlowski. Silbando Bembas is a militant film collective that conceives cinema, as well as all audiovisual media, as a tool at the service of the struggle of the working class and the exploited. 'From Silbando Bembas, we want to extend this invitation to all workers and organizations.' Silbando Bembas, a militant film collective, will premiere again. It has three feature films to its credit: 'They Were, They Are – Their Blow, Our Struggle' (2024); 'The Sixties. Chronicles of a Workers' Struggle' (2021) and 'The Law is Made' (2011). A story of mobilizations that began on March 14, 1990, with the activism of Norma Pla. Understanding cinema in its relationship with social and political events and as an active system of thought for transformation, an audiovisual piece that rescues the struggle that is today an emblem and a lighthouse for the rest of the workers who suffer the systematic attack on conquered rights in our country could not be missing. And as a 'bonus', in the medium-length film, the event that gave rise to that Wednesday when retirees were accompanied to the Congress by the fans of the football clubs is revealed. For Silbando Bembas, a militant film collective that has been around for 18 years, the premiere of 'Retirees Teach' is part of the popular response to the offensive that this December deepens the government of Javier Milei and allies: 'a new assault on pensions through the dismantling of PAMI and a labor reform that reduces employer contributions and destroys pension funds'. The screening will also be an excuse for a meeting that allows for continuing to rethink and organize current resistances. The creative engineering to face the employers in the past that is updated in organized inventiveness to face the insensitive ferocity of the police forces every Wednesday. The medium-length film records the current mobilizations but also plays by traveling to a past that is always current: the creative engineering of a conscious working class willing to fight that still persists today. In its 18 years of existence, it has made hundreds of productions in support of the causes of workers in different areas, for union claims, human rights, gender, and environmental issues. The meeting will be next Monday, December 22, at 6 p.m., at Mu Trinchera Boutique (Riobamba 143, CABA).
