WORLD WORLDWIDE SPAIN News Journal Update - (en) Spain, CNT: OUR FUTURE, OUR PUBLIC PENSION (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

Precariousness has been establishing itself in our society, making us

feel less optimistic about our individual and collective future. When
the gap between the poor and the rich widens more and more, the
opportunity for a decent life generates a great sea of doubts that
invites us to look the other way, to maintain a minimum of happiness
while we develop our fragile life project. A project increasingly
conditioned by exogenous selfishness that increasingly affects our
lives: This is the panorama that the vast majority of working class
people suffer from. ---- The present is gloomy, what about the future?
Many working people, instigated by the propaganda of the capitalist
system, are increasingly convinced that when they reach retirement age -
in 2027 it will be 67 years - the amount of their pension will be
insufficient to survive. Should we tolerate it? No, past generations of
workers have extracted benefits from capitalism, regardless of wages, to
improve their lives and those of their people: that is a heritage that -
at a minimum - we are obliged to preserve.

Now, when the global correlation of forces seems to be falsely leaning
towards capitalism, it believes it has the right to take away our
previous class achievements, posing - since the nineties - a subtle
battle to convert the social protection rights achieved - during so many
years of struggle - in a business with which to accumulate more capital.
Progressively, using the entire state apparatus, it directs us workers,
in the matter of pensions, towards the dispossession of subsistence
resources in the last stage of our lives.

With each reform carried out (2011, 2013, 2021, 2022 and 2023), with
each parliamentary commission (Toledo Pact), based on instilling fear
and coercion, they intend to push us towards the path of privatization
of pensions - private or company -, with the invaluable tartufism of
CCOO-UGT. We must not allow it.

Our public pension - the fruit of a lifetime of work and exploitation -
is one of the objectives that capitalism - with different faces - tries
to take away from us or, at least, substantially modify for its selfish
benefit. Yes, they are those same pensions that at one point in history
served the capitalists and their accomplices to contain the advance of
the working class and its organizations, within a framework of
reconstruction of the world that they themselves had destroyed, thus
attempting to end the confrontations. interclassism that led millions of
working people to tragedy and annihilation.

Day by day, CNT continues to be active, laying the foundations for our
ideal future world, but while this is happening, we do not forget the
daily struggle in the workplace and within society for a dignified and
quality subsistence within the economic framework. and social imposed
and guided by the insatiable appetite for domination by a minority.

We understand that now our fight for pensions has to focus on current
and future active workers. We do not forget the contribution of current
pensioners, nor their exemplary fight for public pay-as-you-go pensions.

We do not forget more than three million pensioners at risk of poverty,
which is why we demand a decent minimum pension. We do not forget the
pensioner women with whom we fight and will fight in favor of the
elimination of the gender gap, just as we do with active workers, so
that economic and social gender differences disappear, once and for all.
and cultural. In our opinion, these are, along with quality healthcare
and a public plan for short-term residential solutions, equipped with
the necessary resources, for older people where they are treated with
dignity and respect for their self-determination, according to their
psychophysical needs, some keys to the present struggle of pensioners to
which, as a union, we join.

We prioritize the fight of active workers for future public pensions,
understanding that they must be the ones who, in the first place, take
control and the initiative to prevent capitalism and its accomplices
from ending the public pension system and privatizing it. and actively
integrate it into financial speculative capital, which only causes
strong destabilization in the world of work, large downward fluctuations
in wages and a high level of relocation of companies to countries with a
lower level of labor protection.

-We must avoid and reverse private company pension plans in those
sectors that capital, the state and collaborationist unions try to
impose them since these are the door to the privatization of public
pensions.

-We must reverse the retirement age, progressively imposed since the end
of the last century by the different governments at the service of
capitalism, until placing it in a first phase at 65 years to
progressively move towards 60 years with 30 years of contributions.

-We must prevent the replacement rate of new pensions from falling below
85% of the last salary. -We must ensure that the minimum pension and the
minimum wage are greater than 60% of the average salary in the country,
which would mean, at this time, EUR1,275.

These and some other reasons force us to fight both in the streets and
in the workplace. We must not forget that today's salary is tomorrow's
pension, which makes the salary and the pension two sides of the same
coin.: our livelihood and that of our families.

For this reason, we call on the working class, in general, and our CNT
membership, in particular, to support the demonstration of the next:

October 28, at 11:00 a.m.

in Madrid (from Atocha to Sol)

In defense of the public pension system. CNT we see ourselves in the
block of combative unions, behind the block of the pension movement.

Let's carry our flags as a sign of support.

https://www.cnt.es/noticias/nuestro-futuro-nuestra-pension-publica/
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