You don't just have to encourage them, you have to imitate them ! Total workers
(from refiners to gas station attendants) are right to demand wage increases,while inflation is taking hold. While it refuses to requisition these "superprofits " by taxing them, the government claims to requisition the strikersand sends them the cops: the State, an instrument at the service of thecapitalists. But it is everywhere that inflation pushes to demand: rail,transport, energy, education, metallurgy... calls for strikes follow one another.We need a broad social conflict as a starting point to go further. ---- +8% onconsumer products, in August, it was the increase in prices observed over one year.+3.3% average wage increase in 2022, that's not even half.+32.7% increase in dividends paid by French companies to their shareholders, thisis the result of the 2nd quarter of 2022, compared to 2021.10 to 15 billion euros is what CEO Patrick Pouyanné announced as dividends to bedistributed to Total shareholders this year !Why life is getting more and more expensiveclimate change leads to a drop in agricultural yields, but also an explosion inthe cost of nuclear electricity. This summer, more than half of the French powerstations were shut down due to their dilapidated state, but above all to theinsufficient flow of the rivers...the soaring prices of raw materials (wood, coal, metals, etc.) disputed byChinese, European and North American manufacturers;the invasion of Ukraine by Putin, which aggravates everything by disrupting trade...What the social emergency commandsWho says inflation, says rise in the class struggle. This is how it is: the risein prices pushes to fight for wages! Especially since the State and employershave so underpaid and degraded work that they are now struggling to recruit inthe hotel and catering industry, construction, school transport, public health,education...What they will try to do: supply the "sectors in tension" with forced labor. Byusing vocational education (to "orient" young people). By degrading unemploymentcoverage (to force the unemployed to accept poorly paid and off-putting jobs).What we must force them to do: raise salaries, but also tax capitalist profitsmore, including the famous oil, gas and pharmaceutical "superprofits"...PDF leaflet to downloadWhat the climate emergency demandsPurchasing power is vital, but we must see further. Wage gains will quickly bedevoured by inflation. This cycle cannot be endless, as the climate emergencythreatens the very survival of humanity.To our collective struggles, we must therefore add a challenge to capitalistpower. To both live better and guide society towards energy sobriety.develop public services (transport, health, education). Local and free, to reducethe number of cars, kilometers traveled, fuel burned;accelerate the insulation of housing to lower the heating and air conditioning bill;reorient the energy model through sobriety, which will make it possible toreplace nuclear power and gas with controllable, local and renewable energies(wind, solar, hydroelectricity);reorient the agricultural model by reducing production that weighs the most onthe environment and on water resources (meat, corn, soybeans);drastically reduce all superfluous pollutants: air transport, exotic tourism,luxury, unnecessary major projects...Meeting all of these challenges at the same time can seem insurmountable. It isin the capitalist system, governed by the law of the market and short-termprofit, which means overexploitation and waste. The necessary "ecologicalplanning" can only be done with the expropriation of the capitalists. Only thesocialization of the means of production and exchange, self-management byworkers, will allow us to regain control of our future.The Gonfreville-L'Orcher refinery (76) was the first to enter the fight, onSeptember 27, 2022. Here on October 12, on the picket line.cc Daniel Maunouryhttps://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Nous-n-aurons-que-ce-que-nous-prendrons_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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