#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #France, UCL AL #333 - Politics, Pension Reform: Work More and Die Fast (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Macron's pension reform, under the guise of saving the system and being more

united between generations, is a new full-scale attack on social gains. Faced
with the announced privatization of unemployment insurance, it is necessary to
build a strong trade union arc from the base to reverse the balance of power.
---- Consultations with the trade unions have begun, but Macron has announced the
color anyway: he wants to raise the retirement age to 65, allegedly to save this
system plagued by future deficits and be in solidarity with future generations.
---- It should be noted that solidarity with "our children" is variable depending
on whether it is the climate and environmental emergency or making us work
longer. But it is also factually false, the Pensions Orientation Council
considers that "the results[...]do not validate the merits of the speeches which
put forward the idea of an uncontrolled dynamic of pension spending. retirement
". In fact, Macron and his government, as good guarantors of capitalist
interests, are working to reverse two of the main gains of the labor movement of
the 20th century.

First principle : the reduction of working time. The labor movement has been
constantly gaining life time beyond the control of the bosses. Their "reform" of
pensions simply aims to resume from this time. And the counter-offensive is
violent, three years at a time, the equivalent of more than three hours a week
over a full full-time career.

Second principle : the principle of solidarity. The pension system works on
intergenerational solidarity still largely financed by the socialization of a
part of our salary, what capitalists call social charges. Their reform project
aims to make the conditions of access to a full pension almost impossible for a
large part of the workers: the employment rate of seniors is already low, many
jobs do not allow working so old. and it is difficult to reach 42 years of
contributions.

As a result, the low amount of pensions pushes people to provide individual
solutions to provide for their old age, it is no coincidence that the major
banking and insurance groups are multiplying advertisements because "retirement
is about to be prepared".

Demonstration of March 23, 2022 in Rennes for pensions wages and against layoffs,
15,000 people demonstrate. Presence of several private processions such as
Thomson, Huit diffusion, PSA (...)
Copyright: Red Photo Library /Red Photo Library/tn
A reform to fatten the private sector
Contrary to what the government claims, in fact, it is the principle of
pay-as-you-go pensions that is under attack: we are made to work longer and
conditions are put in place to encourage individual savings, thus giving up to
private interests a juicy market that escaped them.

Faced with this loser-loser, our social camp will have to oppose a determined
battle. To what is a liberal ideological offensive we must reaffirm and
repopularize the principle of a great social security managed by the population
where we pool a part of the wealth that we produce, a part of our wages to
provide for the vagaries of life (health problems, old age, periods of
unemployment, etc.) in solidarity.

This approach can allow us to make the link between the many struggles for wage
increases and those against pension reform but also with the unraveling of
unemployment insurance, and to build a broad social front. We have the advantage
of an extensive trade union arc (CFDT included) which refuses the postponement of
the retirement age as well as the extension of the number of years of
contribution. We must build on these positions to build union unity at the
grassroots.

Only our self-organization can allow us to engage in a real balance of power likely

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