Madrid. Mobilization and struggle
AGAINST THE SOCIAL PACT
job, salary and social and environmental rights On 1 May we celebrate an international day of struggle of the working class. As in many things, the various governments and trade unions aimed at reducing system that day to witness a day, a holiday more.
If for us / I on 1 May was always a day of fighting, there are more reasons than ever to make this day a day of vindication
and struggle of the / o workers is in the world. just two months ago the Government, employers and trade unions signed system delay retirement age to 67 years, imposed a historic setback a fundamental right such as pensions reform took for good job easy and cheap dismissal and sealed all in a social pact to dismantle the perspective an immediate general strike.
As we reported at the time, the Covenant is an attempt to tie the hands of the / these workers / s while the Government continues to impose measures bankers social war. While the unemployment rate stands at about five million workers is continuing closures (264 each day) and layoffs.
The price increase triggers cost of living wages and thus lose their purchasing power. In sectors such as public employees and the reduction exceeds the 50% loss of purchasing power in the last two decades. Both
labor reform, such as increasing the retirement age contribution period and have a greater impact if the already precarious working conditions for women. Also remain highly feminized sectors (education, health, care, etc) where these sectors, starting more precarious, especially affected by privatization. The cut in social sector investments will fall in a special way on the backs of women who lose the little support they received, for example in the care of sons and daughters.
Now in a new twist, the so-called Pact of the Euro is preparing a new attack on untying their wages increase the cost of life and linking them to the "productivity." Preparing new social cuts justified in the name of reducing the deficit, but whose real purpose is simply to ensure payment of the debt rigorous German banks.
The reform of collective bargaining in which toil government, CEOE-UGT and CCOO aims to give companies more power to "more flexible" working conditions, fall from wage increases, imposing awards mandatory, as in the Franco era, when there is no agreement, and are settled in fact the provincial agreements. Thus attempt to impose agreements not only poverty but to grant a monopoly bargaining CCOO and UGT, ending all trade union opposition, denying representation the vast majority of the / these workers / es and all the unions that oppose this policy of systematic delivery of rights.
While still impose the policy of general impoverishment of the working class, millions continue to aid the banks, now in the form of support for the privatization of the Savings Bank. No repair to accelerate the privatization of public services like post offices, health or education, for business groups to make basic needs a delicious source of business. Therefore, in crisis, only companies listed on the IBEX-35 have pocketed in 2010 more than 50,000 million euros of profit (51,636.99) and breaking the record high attained in 2007 and surpassing the 23.14% of 2009 profits.
Not surprisingly, therefore, that the business elite, the 41 largest business and finance with Emilio Botin at the helm, we have asked Zapatero "that remains" not to convene early elections and to continue "with a firm hand." Employers, bankers and union officials say this government of the Social War and now also of the imperialist war.
What not to employment, health, education, environment and pensions there is no limit to the pockets of bankers, fund military adventures in Libya and maintain a court of parasites.
output by social workers and the crisis The more we tighten the screws on the working class more they insist on saying that "there is another solution to the crisis." Each presented as they adopt on behalf of general interest, and thus generate a climate of opinion for the / o workers is to resign themselves to the inevitability of such measures. The so-called general interest is nothing but a scam for the benefit of private interests. Actually that should read "no other solution to the crisis if it wants to continue the business of a handful of capitalists, bankers and multinationals." But
from the interest of the / these workers is in the vast majority of people, yes there is another solution to the crisis, a solution that requires action resolutely anti-capitalist.
why we defend: - The Nationalization of the Banking and strategic sectors of the economy (Health, Education, Transport, Energy and Communication).
- For permanent employment ONE OR MORE DISCHARGE. 35-hour workday with all the employment and wages, retirement at age 60 with replacement contract. No more EREs authorization. Unemployment benefits indefinitely to all people standing up to its relocation, and matching the lowest pensions to minimum wage.
- For the promotion of an equitable distribution of work, paid or not, between women and men.
- Prohibited by law from the privatization of public services, offshoring and outsourcing business. Prohibition of evictions and remit the payment of the mortgage on the first home to the unemployed.
- For the creation of public employment, should be reversed in public services and privatization. You have to cover all places of public administration. More jobs in social services (nursery schools, care dependents, etc.) and environmental protection and combating climate change.
- for a profound agrarian reform based on expropriation without compensation to the landlords, fostering agricultural cooperation, enhancing the infrastructure and industrializing agricultural areas.
- The abolition of state subsidies to the Royal Family and the Church.
- Tax reform makes available a truly progressive tax system to pay more have the most! Prosecution of fraud.
- The social and environmental needs are beyond the business of finance. Stop speculation on public property! ! Not to pay the public debt at the expense of the working class!
A May 1st in solidarity with the / o workers is the world The international day of struggle of the working class can not miss our support and solidarity with the struggles of all those / these workers is the world. First, with the / workers and Arab peoples tours insurrections and popular uprisings against dictatorships and puppet of imperialism. Likewise reject the NATO intervention in Libya.
also express our solidarity with the young and the working class Greek, British or Portuguese are now in the old Continent who hold high the fight against the plans of adjustment, unemployment and continued cuts in labor and social rights.
finally express our solidarity with the young people and workers in retaliation for the fight, including the accused, girls and fines / as after the demonstration on January 27 in Madrid and demand the dismissal of all cases .
Join us @ s to May 1 We call on the / these workers is, to the Works Councils and all trade unions, social, environmental, feminist, student and policies that reject government plans and their covenant social, in this May 1 jointly organize a large demonstration, which begins in the Plaza de Legazpi at 11.30 hours, ending at the Plaza Museo Reina Sofía.
CALL: Madrid Union Coordination (WSC): Alternative Trade Union of Workers (AST), the Independent Union of Workers Mint New Platform (SATNP), Trade Union (SU), assembly-Workers Committee ( CTA), Decking Association (PS) (EMT), Collective Labor Rock People (COP), United Trade Union of Workers Independent Hotel Melia Castilla (SUIT) and Platform Independent Association Blas & Co. (PSI) Territorial Confederation of Madrid, Castilla la Mancha and Extremadura in CGT Base Commissions (Co.bas) Madrid Union-Inter Rail (SF) assembly movement of Health Workers (MATS), Union of Lift (SE) .
SUPPORT: Current Red (CR) Anti-Capitalist Left, Left Castellana Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) Initiative Communist Jubiqué; Works of UPS-Vallecas; Assembly Vallekas by General Strike, Communist Youth Collective (CJC), In Struggle, Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Organization (ORA) Madrid antifascist; Reconstruction Communist Assembly against Capitalist Globalization and War, Ecologists in Action.
More information calls May 1: http://www.rojoynegro.info/evento/confederacion/1% C2% BA-May-2011-calls-the-cgt The Ateneo