+51% is the average increase that the bosses of large companies have granted
themselves this year. +2.5%, these are the crumbs left to the employees. At thesame time, inflation is at +10% on food and +135% on gas... What are we supposedto do? ---- There are several ways of organizing production and distributing thewealth produced. At UCL, we defend the pooling of means of production. On the onehand, workers, armed with knowledge of their profession and their sector ofactivity, would democratically develop the industrial strategies of theircompany. On the other hand, the mode of distribution of the wealth produced wouldbe designed to meet the needs of everyone.Where does the wealth we produce go?The capitalists imprison us in the system of wage labor. They present themselvesas the only ones capable of organizing production, the "law" of supply and demandbeing supposed to settle the problem of the distribution of wealth. In reality,in this system, most of what we produce by working is confiscated from us. If wework 7 hours a day, our salary corresponds to the wealth we produce in 1h to1h30. The rest is confiscated by the capitalist who owns the business. Our salarydoes not match the work we provide.Hold-up on our salariesWorse: the prices imposed on us as consumers also do not correspond to the realvalue of the goods and services we need. The prices are calculated so that thecapitalists register profits. Thus, the capitalists, via the system of wagelabor, rob us twice: once by not paying us the wages that are due to us, and asecond time by imposing far too high prices on us. Indeed, their objective is notto ensure that goods and services are distributed according to the needs of eachperson, but that the wages and prices imposed on us guarantee them comfortableprofits.Who benefits from rising prices?We have seen it for several years: despite record profits, the capitalistscontinue to impose wage austerity on us. We can also see this with the completelycrazy rise in prices, especially those of food products and energy. The prices ofeggs, milk, and pasta are exploding, but the farmers who produce them are earningless and less. Fuel prices are exploding, but Total and company continue to payever more dividends to their shareholders. This is a heist.Austerity for all!Austerity does not only concern active workers, it also concerns the unemployed,who see their unemployment benefits dwindling. It also concerns pensioners, whosepensions Macron continues to attack. Why? Supposedly because the bosses areoverwhelmed with "burdens". They "no longer want to pay" solidarity... But we sawit above: the social security contributions paid by the bosses are paid withmoney that they steal from us! To make us work until 65 and over is to take usalways more. We do not forget: 25% of the poorest have already died at this age.Faced with this, there is only one possibility for us, workers: struggle. Againstausterity and rising prices, against the breaking of pensions and solidaritysystems, let's block the country with a strike! Without losing sight of the factthat we must also, in the medium term, get out of wage labor, socialize the meansof production, and abolish capitalism, which exploits us for the benefit of a few.And the women in all this?We are even more exposed and precarious than men. First, because the patriarchalsystem, which capitalism uses as a tool in the service of its domination,confines us to precarious jobs, often part-time. Then, because in this machosociety, we often have the responsibility of raising the children alone.Precarious, isolated, and over-exploited, the injustice that strikes us is evenmore violent. This is why we are often on the front lines of struggles againsthigh prices and oppressions.Social struggles are feminist struggles, on January 19 as on March 8 we will strike!Libertarian Communist Union, January 13, 2023https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Inflation-retraites-le-grand-hold-up_________________________________________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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