Today's May Day podcast is not quite ordinary. It is represented by members of
the Antijob project. And on the Day of Solidarity of Workers we will talk aboutthe struggle between labor and capital in Russia and abroad. ---- 1. Platformcapitalism and the abolition of the labor code ---- Literally on Thursday, thenews came that the teachers of the Skillbox language school were ready to stage aprotest following the example of the Wildberries sellers. Due to the loss of morethan 20% of earnings after bonuses and other innovations from the management.---- Teachers say that three days ago they received news of a reduction in therate for a lesson with group students from 585 to 357 rubles for 50 minutes ofclass and with premium clients from 800 to 550. And this is without deductingtax. At the same time, the requirements for teachers remained the same: workexperience abroad and a spoken foreign language with a minimal accent. And thecost of courses has increased. According to the teachers, the management does notrespond to their complaints. Those who are dissatisfied are sent to look foranother job. Therefore, the employees of the SkillBox platform are preparing forlitigation - they are making class actions and thinking about a nationwide strike.Speaking of platforms... The situation with English teachers brings to mind astory that didn't start this week and won't end any time soon. We are talkingabout the draft law "On Employment", which the State Duma approved on March 15 inthe first reading.With this law, they want to regulate the activities of the self-employed andworkers of various platforms: couriers, taxi drivers, order pickers, just suchteachers on platforms like Skillbox and many workers of other platforms. By theway, this is about 15 million workers out of 83 million of Russia's able-bodiedpopulation: 18% or almost one in five.2. What is wrong with this law?In short, with its adoption, platforms will be able to regulate important workingconditions without formalizing an employment relationship. And this means thatunlimited fines and dismissals, refusal of payments for injuries, the absence ofsocial guarantees in the form of vacations and sick days, and most importantly,stable and fair wages can not even be promised will become completely unpunished.Without employment contracts, people are completely on their own, but at the sametime they must share their earnings with the company. Medicine is also on theverge of ... fiction.In the meantime, not everything, to put it mildly, is good in the public sector,where the Labor Code has not yet been canceled. Every week there is news thathealth workers are being cut in salaries due to non-payment of variousallowances. News about the closure of hospitals and clinics. News about thecompletely unacceptable conditions in which those who care about our health haveto work.It was just such conditions that employees of the Tyumen rehabilitation centercomplained about this week. According to them, it is impossible to stay in amedical institution - the center has not been renovated for many years and thewalls have already begun to crumble. Employees independently conducted anindependent forensic examination back in 2017. As a result, it was found that thestate of the building structures of the center is assessed as unacceptable."There is a danger to the presence of people and the safety of equipment. It isnecessary to carry out safety measures and strengthen the structure," theconclusion of the examination says. Nothing has changed since then.Not surprisingly, with such problems, the number of medical workers in Russia isdeclining. And now even the hero of the occasion, the Ministry of Health, hasrecognized this. At the same time, those who remain are offered to work both forthemselves and "for that guy" who quit.So, for example, this week there was news that perfectly characterizes thisprocess. The story happened to the emergency room doctor Evgeny Malyshko. He gota job in the midst of covid, and by the summer of 2022 he was asked to combinehis duties with that of a local therapist. He refused. As a result, the doctorwas fired, and the load was distributed to colleagues. But after a sharpreduction in payments, they also left.3. Strikes: in Latvia, Canada and FranceWhile some workers take on someone else's workload, others fight for theirrights. So in Latvia this week, teachers of schools, preschool institutions andeducators are on strike, demanding higher wages. 28 kindergartens and 10 schoolsare closed in Riga. About 4,000 people are participating in the strike. And inCanada, a strike involving more than 155,000 public sector workers could welldisrupt tax season and has already disrupted 23 public services. It is thoughtthat such a scale will force the Canadian government to satisfy the demands ofthe strikers.But it also happens that those in power do not want to make concessions at all.We can see this in France. Unprecedented large-scale protests against the alreadyadopted pension reform continue there. And, it would seem, unlike Russia, theywant to raise the retirement age by 2 years, and not by 5, but the whole ofFrance is literally on its ears.The French energy union promises to disrupt the Monaco Grand Prix, the CannesFilm Festival, the Roland Garros tennis tournament and the Avignon Arts Festival.And these are not empty threats: the national federation of the mining and energyindustries has announced the action "100 days of anger", which includes poweroutages at important cultural and sporting events in France.The energy boycott has already begun - the unions have begun to cut offelectricity wherever Macron sticks his nose in for a visit.When the president was about to visit one of the hospitals, the authoritiesdragged a mobile power generator there. Macron now stumbles everywhere onwhistles, insulting cries and the fight of pans - the know-how of French protest.In the prefecture of the Herault department, a decree was issued in advancebanning "portable sound devices" so that nothing would prevent the president fromspilling words, but the citizens brought pots. And in the Alsatian village ofMuttersholz, the protesters made such a fuss that the offended Macron could notutter a word - he was actually gagged.4. Beautiful Russia of the futureImagine if in Russia people would also meet the "optimization" of healthcare, the"Platon" system that robbed truckers, pension reform, war and mobilization, whenemployees are actually turned into cannon fodder. On the eve of May 1, we inviteeveryone to imagine Russia, in which a working person can stand up for himselfand prevent himself from being turned into a resource for those in power, into aninstrument of their political adventures and unbridled enrichment.In our country, there are various initiatives that are trying to bring closerthis unattainable future, as many people think today. One of these initiatives isus, the authors of today's podcast - the Antijob project. We collect negativefeedback about employers on the site, write about the most pressing political,economic and social issues, promote the ideas of class struggle and workers'self-government. If you, like us, are on the side of good, then you can help us.We are looking for rewriters, translators and programmers on a volunteer basis.Write to us in the telegram bot @ajvol_bot. Join us. In the struggle we will findour right!5. In memory of Dmitry PetrovLet's get into the Antijob podcast a bit: we couldn't miss the story of the deathof the Moscow anarchist Dmitry Petrov. He fought on the side of Ukraine, diednear Bakhmut. One of the participants in Autonomous Action recalls him: "Dima hada rich illegality background - the BOAC wrote about this.But Dima was also known as one of the main popularizers of the ideas of theKurdish revolution in Russia. Prior to that, Dima participated in actions againstcompacted buildings, police violence, white-tape protests, and so on. He wrotejournalistic texts, was a good polemicist. In his youth, he was fond of paganism,which did not interfere with anarchism.So Dima was a very solid, convinced person. For him, anarchism was not a distantutopia, but something practical that one should try to build here and now.Actually, for the sake of this goal, he sacrificed his life to the god of war. Ialso remember that Dima organized meetings of various groups of Moscowanarchists: he spent a lot of time gathering everyone together, discussing thestrategy of the movement. In his posthumous message, which we reprinted, it issaid that anarchists need to move towards a common goal, minimizing squabbles anddisassemblies that interfere with this.Friends and comrades collect memories of Dmitry Petrov.Well, that's all for today! We remind you that in "Trends of Order and Chaos" theparticipants of "Autonomous Action" and other authors give anarchist assessmentsof current events. 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