WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, CNT-AIT: Anarchosyndicalisme #180 - Macron is costing us a lot of money (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 I must admit that as a metalworker, the reform of the retirement age at 64,

tickled me a little. Indeed, I have been working since 1989, at that time I was
16 years old. I have almost always done more or less the same job and its
variations, with different employers. For my colleagues of the same age, with a
similar career path, this retirement means, for us, that we may not get there
alive. ---- We have the feeling that this reform is in fact an attempt by the
government, employers and shareholders to save money by betting on our life
expectancy. Colleagues my age, who are in their late fifties, who started working
young, like myself, all have health problems, joint problems, inevitably
physically broken somewhere. By enduring harsh and exhausting working conditions.
For us, this postponement of the retirement age is almost a death sentence!
With my companions in misfortune we discussed it, the arduousness and wear and
tear at work in our jobs, and we realized that our jobs, however physical and
difficult they may be, do not tick all the boxes of the criteria of arduousness
and wear and tear, de facto we realized that the bourgeoisie wants to make us die
at work.

So for a few weeks the unions, and the parties of the left and those of Capital
have decided to roll their wheels, to try to impress Macron, who moreover seems
completely indifferent to these demonstrations and proves once again his contempt
and his inconsistency.
So everyone welcomes these demonstrations that go smoothly, with discipline and
everything, and everything...An impressive number of participants each time, two
demonstrations/weeks, but relatively calm.
Yet there are millions of us to mobilize, but the infantilization of people in
this society is such that the parasite-assisted, who make up this government,
claim that this anger is due to a "lack of explanation" and "a lack of of
pedagogy on their part". And during this time, we continue our plan-plan
demonstrations, imagining that we will make the government back down with regard
to this reform.

If we, we are content only to make demonstrations by millions, we will not obtain
much, if it is not to help the central trade unions, to make publicity, to fill
up with new members, but above all, they always remain there to channel the
discontent of the proletariat.

However, for more than 40 years, our standard of living has been falling, misery
is spreading, more than 40 years of political combinations and employer predation
which will end up definitively eradicating our so-called social rights and public
freedoms, our wages constantly rolled, always or almost with the approval of the
State (and not necessarily of the EU), to crush us.

Pension reform, skyrocketing prices, unemployment insurance constantly reduced
and revoked in order, it seems, to force people to look for a job, as if the
majority of the unemployed were nothing but incorrigible lazy people, to whom you
have to kick their ass a bit to get them to work.
Behind this stupid reasoning, it is relatively little mentioned, in the
newspapers and on TV, that many people find themselves unemployed around the age
of 55, with of course little chance of finding a job anytime soon. If we add to
this the obligation that the bourgeoisie wants to impose, to force the
beneficiaries of the RSA to work, a minimum (20h / week, it seems) to be entitled
to the said allowance. And knowing that many beneficiaries of the RSA are in
their fifties, and that they will have to hold out until they are 64 years old.
It will certainly be expected that one day a government, Macron or another, will
question the minimum wage.

After imposing health tyranny on us, because we are necessarily children who must
be watched, and we don't understand much... Infantilism when you hold us...
Macron and his clique continue their roadmap, namely the destruction of any
social institution, of solidarity, which allow despite this rotten society to
have at least a semblance of life in society and mutual aid. They loot and
vandalize everything that is within their reach and that escapes their business.
However, for months, there have been strikes all over the region of France, more
or less important, more or less small, which are often isolated, but which
reflect the anger of the proletariat.

If we want to win, we must first break the isolation that subjugates us in our
respective workplaces, that we end the division between workers, manuals vs
intellectuals, city workers vs field workers, French vs foreigners , Men vs
Women, etc.

The trade union institutions which have been integrated into the state for a very
long time, which choose and decide for us, impose their dates of mobilization,
with their organized walks, often exhausting, but almost ineffective in the face
of cynical employers, organizations which timidly call for the renewable general
strike.

These ballads alone will not be enough, and it will be necessary to push these
trade union organizations to convene general assemblies of the workers, so that
the latter can take their own decisions and strategies of struggle, by electing
revocable strike committees, by constituting liaison committees cross-industry,
kicking out union bureaucrats and professional politicians from our struggles.
And then, the struggle can finally extend to sectors of society. The bosses and
the bourgeoisie are really costing us a lot of money!

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