Canada, Cause Commune #34 - Unemployment Solidarity necessary (fr)

The recent attacks against the Harper government's unemployment insurance should not be 
seen as a simple policy antisocial conservatives, but as an inevitable symptom of an 
economic system that promotes the accumulation of profits. Indeed, a brief review of 
recent history, we can see that no matter which party forms the government, unemployment 
insurance is constantly attacked, and sabred squandered. This is at the heart of 
capitalism that we must seek the reasons for these attacks. ---- Unemployment is a 
necessary and inevitable phenomenon in the capitalist economy. The history shows that full 
employment even in times of war, has never involved a zero unemployment. In a system that 
puts the pursuit of profit at the heart of economic concerns, unemployment quickly becomes 
an essential tool that allows a downward pressure on wages.

The unemployed, unemployed or on welfare, form a "reserve army" ready to occupy jobs in 
replacement workers or workers. This reserve army to help employers cope with the demands 
of wage increase, "you find your salary too low? Well, others are ready to take it! "Or 
face potential labor disputes," go on strike! Others will replace at short notice! "

In these circumstances, employers quickly realized that secure social fabric, which 
includes a good protection for unemployment and a last-resort assistance (welfare) 
sufficient impedes the very function of non-employment. If unemployed, unemployed and 
attended social-es can live decently, and they will be less inclined to accept-es to work 
under any conditions. This is a major threat to the accumulation of capital, since the 
effect of "reserve army" is fading as the living conditions of the unemployed improve! 
Precarious unemployed becomes an essential operation for the business and its friends in 
government!

Here in Quebec and Canada, the casualization of welfare is something acquired over time, 
but it remains overly generous unemployment insurance in the eyes of many. Governments 
therefore pass through several axes, it gradually decreases accessibility, cut benefits, 
it establishes legal mechanisms forcing recipients to seek employment and to accept any 
job, etc.. Everything is in place to develop a mass of unemployed docile and mobile ready 
to fulfill their function of "reserve army" to the delight of employers. Moreover, the 
Minister Finley summarizes this reality when she says: "We want to ensure that the 
McDonald's of this world do not have to bring in temporary foreign workers to do the work 
of Canadians on EI have the skills to do. "

We see therefore draw the necessary solidarity that must unite the workers, the workers, 
the unemployed, the unemployed and attended social-es. Struggle es un-necessarily becomes 
the struggle of another, since the attacks on one or the other inevitably involve others. 
We therefore everyone nested within a single class. Our solidarity is the only weapon 
against a boss class that has never really ceased its offensive to consolidate his power 
and optimal conditions for accumulation of profit.

It is obvious that Bill C-38 Conservative is just another manifestation of the interests 
of the dominant class. This is at the heart of the economic system must see the causes of 
these attacks. This is a systematic refusal of capitalism and the establishment of a power 
constant and permanent that we will turn back these attacks antisocial.