ILC
INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER No. 68
A dossier of weekly information published by the International Liaison
Committee of Workers and Peoples
March 2nd, 2004
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PRESENTATION
All our readers who, along with millions of people around the world,
have supported the campaign for labor rights in Iraq can judge the
importance of the information we publish on page 2 concerning the
composition of the delegation that will go to Geneva on March 15, 2004
to the headquarters of the ILO (International Labor Organization), where
they will be received by the director of the Workers Group of the ILO in
charge of Iraqi affairs.
Those who form part of this delegation are:
- The American union coalition US Labor Against The War (USLAW),
represented by one of its national coordinators, Gene Bruskin;
- The Internation Confederation of Arab Trade Unions (ICATU),
represented by its Secretary General, Hacene Djeman;
- The International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples,
represented by its coordinator, Daniel Gluckstein.
This week we include the publication of our 'European Bulletin' with
information from Spain, Belgium, Ukraine and Switzerland.
We appeal to all to send their statement of support for the demand that
the ILO conduct a complete inquiry into the situation of the rights of
workers in Iraq.
Send your statements of support; all those we receive before March 15
will be sent to the representatives of the ILO (see the list of
signatories on p. 8).
Support the delegation financially.
Support the struggle of the ILC.
Subscribe to the ILC International Newsletter.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
p. 1: Presentation
p. 2: Campaign communiqué against the occupation and for labor rights
in Iraq,
A Baghdad pamphlet
p. 3 to 6: European Bulletin
p. 3: Chronicle, class wars and elections. Spain
p. 4: Open letter to the presidents of PS and PSA. Belgium
p. 5: Appeal by Union Borotba
The workers of Kharkov against the new Work Code . Ukraine
p. 6: March 8, Contribution of the Women Workers. Switzerland
p. 7: Louisa Hanoune, presidential candidate presents her program.
Algeria
p. 8: Signatories to the campaign 'Against the occupation, for the
rights of workers in Iraq'.
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ILC International Newsletter
International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples
87, rue du Faubourg Saint Denis -75010 Paris, France
Tel: (33 1) 48 01 88 28 e-mail: eit.ilc@frolean.com
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Campaign Communiqué
"Against the occupation and for labor rights in Iraq"
Background:
June 14, 2003: During a meeting in Geneva an appeal was launched
'against the occupation and for labor rights in Iraq' by:
… International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples (ILC)
… US Labor Against the War (USLAW)
… The International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions (ICATU)
June 15, 2003: The 12th annual meeting for the defense of ILO
conventions registered this initiative.
July: the report drafted by USLAW on American multinationals that have
installed themselves in Iraq was translated into Arabic and French.
October 3 - 10, 2003: An independent delegation went to Iraq in
representation of the campaign 'against the occupation and for labor
rights in Iraq'. They met with labor organizations that wanted to
organize and publish an international report alerting union movements
around the world.
October 24, 25, & 26: The Lational Labor Assembly for Peace held in
Chicago, USA, at the initiative of USLAW, decided to start a campaign to
inform the US congress on the violation of union rights in occupied
Iraq.
November 17 2003: An appeal was launched to organize an international
delegation to the ILO's headquarters in order to demand an inquiry by
the ILO into the situation of the rights of workers in Iraq.
January 15, 2004: A request for a meeting was addressed to Mr. Juan
Somavia, Director General of the International Labor Bureau requesting
that he receive the delegation on March 15th.
We inform those who throughout the world have supported the campaign for
labor rights in Iraq -- and beyond all the workers' organizations, all
the activists who mobilized against the war in Iraq: The international
delegation that we formed to meet with the International Labor
Organization will be present in Geneva on Monday, March 15, 2004.
The American labor coalition US Labor Against the War (USLAW) will be
represented by one of its two national convenors: Gene Bruskin.
The International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions (ICATU) will be
represented by their secretary general: Hacene Djeman.
The International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples will be
represented by their coordinator: Daniel Gluckstein.
The Federation of Workers Councils and Trade Unions of Iraq (FWCUI), as
well as the Union of Unemployed Iraqis (UUI) will be represented by
their leaders from Iraq.
All the trade unions of Iraq have been invited. The Iraqi Federation of
Trade Unions (IFTU) has notified the delegation organizers of its
intention to be present in Geneva on March 15.
Leaders of trade unions from different countries have also announced
their participation.
The delegation will be welcomed on Monday, March 15 at 10 a.m. in Geneva
at the headquarters of the Trade Union of Industry, Construction and
Services (FTMH).
It will then proceed to the headquarters of the ILO, where it will be
received by a representative of the ILO Workers Group in charge of Iraqi
affairs.
As was indicated in the letter to Mr. Juan Somavia, the delegation wants
to inform the ILO officials of the results of its campaign and its
inquiry into the state of labor rights in Iraq, and to ensure that
conventions 87 and 98 of the ILO are respected.
The delegates who will be meeting in Geneva have announced their
intention to take this opportunity to expand the campaign for labor
rights in Iraq so that Iraqi workers can freely form the trade unions of
their choice.
We appeal to all supporters of labor rights to support our request that
the ILO heed our demands and conduct a complete inquiry into the
situation of workers' rights in Iraq
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Join us to demand full and unrestricted trade union freedom in Iraq, and
the immediate implementation of ILO conventions 87, 98 and 138.
Join us in our appeal to pursue our struggle against the U.S.-led
occupation of Iraq, so that Iraq can be governed in accordance with the
wishes and aspirations of its people, with the rights of all its people
are guaranteed, including the rights of workers and trade unions.
All letters of support you send us before March 15 will be forwarded to
the officials at the ILO. This will make the campaign for labor rights s
in Iraq even more powerful.
To contact us:
US Labor Against the War, PO Box 153, 1718 Street, NW Washington DC,
20036 USA
e-mail: info@uslaboragaisntwar.org
International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions, 213 rue Bagdad, PO
Box 3225 Damas, (Syria) tel: (963 11) 445 95 44- Fax: (963 11) 442 0323
- Email: icatu@net.sy
International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples, 87 rue du
Faubourg-Saint-Denis, 75010 Paris (France). Tel: (33-1) 4801 88 28 Fax:
(33-1) 48 01 88 36. Email: eit.ilc@fr.oleane.com.
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A pamphlet distributed in Baghdad: "To all the workers and
employees of government-owned enterprises of diverse establishments and
offices of Iraq."
The appalling working conditions and low salaries have led to a
constant degradation of the workers' living conditions, a growing misery
that barely allow workers and their families to survive under the
present circumstances.
The present salary scale penalizes the workers. This new work
classifications do not take into account the difficulty of the work nor
the working conditions that expose the workers to an increasing number
of accidents. This new classifications do not take into consideration
the gap between the better paid workers and the mass of workers who in
general earn thirty times less. These classifications introduce enormous
disparities which lead the majority of society into poverty, preventing
them from offering their families a dignified and decent life.
The workers constitute the only layer of a society that lives off their
salaries. That salary represents the only source of revenue. All attacks
against salaries by the authorities or government institutions are the
source of improverishment and misery.
Every day thousands of workers are striking at their work places against
the current salary classifications; they are demanding another
classification taking into account the cost of living.
The workers do not want to waste their energy in a series of disjointed
and useless actions in order to obtain a salary scale in accordance with
their claims. That is why they are regrouping to make their claims and
demands prevail.
Only through strikes and by fighting steadfastly for their rights can
the working class succeed in compelling the authorities to heed their
demands. Only the organized workers can make their will prevail.
The Federation of Workers Councils and Trade Unions of Iraq (FWCUI)
calls all the workers and employees of public sector enterprises and all
the factories to come to the demonstration on Sunday, February 16, 2004.
The demonstration will assemble opposite the offices of the Federation
in Baghdad at the entrance of the Al-Rasheed St., close to Matam Al
Turkiet; it will continue towards the headquarters of provincial
authorities, the former headquarters of the Ministry for Planification.
We appeal to all public sector workers to participate.
Federation of Workers Councils and Trade Unions of Iraq FWCUI
February 9, 2004
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For the Rights of Workers in Iraq
Initiators of the campaign «against the occupation and for labor rights
in Iraq»:
Amy Newell, national organizer, US Labor Against the War (USLAW) ;
Bob Muehlenkamp, co-president, USLAW ; Gene Bruskin, co-president, USLAW
; Alan Benjamin, San Francisco Labor Council & USLAW ; Clarence
Thomas, Executive Commission of the Dockers Trade Union of the West
Coast ILWU Local 10, Northern California Region, Coalition of black
unionists, USLAW, member of the delegation in Iraq; David Bacon, trade
union journalist USLAW, member of the delegation in Iraq.
Hacene Djemane, secretary general of the International Confederation of
Arab Trade Unions (CISA) ; Amar Takdjout, General Union of Algerian
Workers (UGTA); Louisa Hanoune, spokeswoman for the Workers' Party of
Algeria; Subhi Toma, Iraqi activist against the war, member of the
delegation in Iraq ; Ibrahim A. Gandour, Workers Confederation of the
Sudan (SWTUF).
Daniel Gluckstein, Coordinator of the International Liaison Committee of
Workers and Peoples ; Olivier Doriane, Workers Party (France),
Marie-Claude Schidlower, Commission of Working Women of the
International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples ; Jean-Pierre
Barrois, activist against the war, member of the delegation in Iraq
(France) ; Didier Schein, trade unionist, member of the delegation in
Iraq (France) ; Luc Deley, Reception committee of the International
Conference for the defense of ILO conventions (Switzerland) ; Alexandre
Anor, member of the Socialist Party (Switzerland).
THEY SUPPORT THE CAMPAIGN:
Afghanistan : A.Ghafar, Secretary General of the Socialist
Association of Afghanistan , Nasir Loyand, Left Radical of Afghanistan (LRA).
South Africa: Mkhize Patrick, SOPA.
Germany : Frey Henning, Ver.di ; Karlheinz Gerhold, SPD, Ver.di ;
Klaus Schüller, SPD, DGB Thuringe.
Bangladesh : Taffazul Hussein, Ara Samin trade unionist.
Belgium: Roberto Giarrocco, FGTB.
Bénin : Marie-Antoinette Toudonou,president of the Women's
Committee of the Trade Union of Workers of Bénin (CSTB).
Brazil : Julio Turra, member of the national bureau of the CUT.
Canada : B. R. Ashley SEIU Local 204. Abigail Bakan Queen's
University Faculty Association.
Korea : Jung Sikwa, assistant secretary of the KMF Metallurgical
Federation of Korea .
Ivory Coast : François Yao, secretary general of the national
trade union of agents of the energy sector (SYNASEG) ; Céline Yassine,
assistant secretary general, in charge of international (affairs) (SYNASEG).
Spain : José Miguel Villa, secretary general of the FES, General
Union of workers (UGT) de Madrid ; Conrado Soria Garcia, UGT de
Barcelona.
France : Jacques Paris, union activist, national Education ;
Pascal Grasso, union activist; Xavier Boiston, union activist
petrochemicals ; Eliane Juquel, union activist ; François Le Pivert,
union activist ; Véronique Pépers, union activist chemicals ; Clarisse
Delalondre, union activist EDF ; Denis Langlet, union activist
metallurgy ; Christian Savidan, union activist local council ; Jean
Markun, union activist ; Michèle Coullet, union activist national
Education ; Jean-Charles Marquiset, union activist ; Patrice Sifflet,
union activist, Le Manifeste for trade union freedom ; Marie Bordes,
union activist national Education ; Daniel Chalier, union activist
health ; Pascal Samouth, union activist ; Christiane Beuf, union
activist ; Michèle Simonnin, union activist public function.
Gabon : Maixent-Hubert Ndong Odzame, president of SYPAG, Trade
Union Confederation of Gabon (CO.SY.GA) ; Camille Mombo-Mouelet,
secretary general of the Free Federation of energy mining and similars (FLEEMA).
Great Britain : Alice Mahon, deputy of the Labour Party Halifax ;
John McDonnell, deputy of the Labour Party Hayes & Harlington ;
Elaine Smith, member of the Scottish parliament; Jeremy Dear, secretary
general of the journalists' trade union ; Robert Corfe, municipal
counselor of Bury St. Edmunds ; Linda Riordan, municipal counselor for
Calderdale ; Collette Bradford, vice president Calderdale TUC, Warren
Ellison, secretary Calderdale Trades Council ; Kevin Stannard,
Calderdale Against the War (CAW) ; Lucy Brill, Diana Forrest, Finn
Jenson, CAW ; Simon Stewart, CAW ; Paul Sutcliffe, CAW ; Kevin Motram,
CAW ; John Moony CAW ; Kieran Armstrong, firemen's trade union ; Nick
Sutcliffe, firemen's trade union ; Peter Lazenby, journalists' trade
union ; David Gee, Unison ; Peter Jones, GPMU (printer's trade union) ;
Stefan Cholewka, editor of The Link ; John Brownhill, TGWU ; Mark
Holinrake, TGWU Rochdale ; Robin Rankin, Rochdale section of the Labour
Party ; Steve Burke, youth head of the Labour Party of Rochdale ;
Christine Taylor, commission femmes, section de Rochdale du Labour Party
; Jean Price, Labour Party de Rochdale ; Tommy Stott, Labour Party de
Rochdale ; Michael Arnott, secretary Dundee TUC ; Charles Charalambus, T
& Tobay and district TUC ; Rory Palmer, Marian Pallister, journalist
; Dr. Nat, M. Queen, member AUT Birmingham University ; Bahadur Najak,
AUT Durham University ; Mick Coates, NATFHE, Rochdale Labour Party ;
Mike Cummings, Rochdale Labour Party ; John Brownhill, Transport and
General Workers Union, Torbay & District TUC ; Nick Kelleher,
secretary TUC of Wolverhampton ; Dave Lee, secretary, TGWU ROSA branch
Rochdale ; Bob Stoker, secretary, Huddersfield TUC ; Dr. Martha Mundy,
London University ; Nigel Maroney, Labour Party Section of Skipton &
Sutton ; Siggi Kaup, Labour Party section of Skipton & Sutton ;
David Grimes, Reading University.
Guadeloupe : Jocelyn Lapitre, MPTPG.
Hong Kong
: Michael Siu, HKCTU ; John Ho, Hong Kong Journalists Association.
India : H. Mahadevan, secretary general of the AITUC ; Nair
Kamesh K, trade union of Voltas personnel ; Shyam Govind Shinde, trade
union of the De Nocil personnel ; Milind S Repe, union activist ;
Krishna V Patkar, union activist ; Shida SS, union activist, Ramchandra
H A, TUSL ; Narayan A Raul, trade union of Otis Elevators personnel ;
Dilip Dalesh, trade union of the Kagal Nicholas personnel ; Fernandes
Cyril, dockers trade union of Goa ; Nooibour Rahman, union activist ;
Ghosh Asis Kusum, union activist, Sanyal C K NFSRU ; Thankappan D, trade
union of Kamani personnel ; H. Mahadevan, secretary general of the All
India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) ; Sharad Rao, secretary general of
MAZDOOR.
Indonesia : Bayu Wicaksono Federation of Independent Journalists
; Andy William Sinaga, Secretary General Transportation And Delivery
Workers Federation Central Board Confederation Of Indonesia Prosperity
Trade Union (DPP FTA K-SBSI).
Japan : Osamu Yomono, vice-president of the railroad workers
trade union (JRU) ; Mari Takenouchi, JRU.
Lebanon : Abd el Amir Najda, commission executive General
Confederation of Lebanese Workers.
Mexico : Raul Dominguez Alcala, secretary general of the road and
highway trade union (SUTCAO).
New Zealand : Mike Williams, sailors' trade union ; Graeme
Clarke, builders' trade union
Pakistan : Chudhari Gulzar, General Secretary, All Pakistan Trade
Union Federation.
Philippines : Edgar Bilayon, secretary general of the Trade Union
of Railway Workers.
Switzerland : Alain Charbonnier, Socialist Party deputy ; Françoise
Schenk Gottret, Socialist Party deputy ; Claude et Pierrette Iseli, UCPO
; Michel Gindrat, UCPO ; Adriano Crameri, union secretary SIB ; Myriam
Lonfat, SSP-VPOD, former deputy ; Max Robert, union activist public
services (SSP) ; Simone Girodo, union activist public services (SSP) ;
Rania Madi.
Thailand : WIMTEC (Women & Workers Independent Media and
Training Center), Socialist party of Malaysia.
Tchad : Djibrine Assale Hamdallah, secretary general of the Union
of trade unions of Tchad (UST) ; Gami N'Garmadjal, secretary general of
teachers' trade union of Tchad (SET).
Togo : Tétévi Norbert Gbikpi-Bénissan, secretary general of
the General Union of Independent Trade Unions of Togo (UNSIT) ; Claude
Ameganvi, secretary in charge of coordination, Workers' Party.
Tunisia : Halim Chaabane, spokesman for the National Trade Union
Committee Iraq-Palestine.
United States : Chris Kaihatsu, Christopher L. Frye, Graphic
Communications Int'l Union ; Snehal Shingavi, Association of Graduate
Student Employees ; Paul Germanotta, European support committee, Farm
Labor
Organizing Committee (FLOC, AFL-CIO) ; Claude Piller, union
activist education ; Dan Kaplan, representative of the teachers' trade
union of California (CFT).
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For Peace, Democracy and Workers' Rights
For the Free and Democratic Union of the Free Nations
of EUROPE
Background:
- The European meeting "for peace, democracy and the rights of
workers, for the free and democractic union of the free nations of
Europe" was convened on the occasion of the meeting "for the
defense of ILO conventions and the independence of trade unions"
that met on June 15, 2003 in Geneva, on the initiative of the
International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples.
- The European meeting was held on September 20 and 21, 2003 with
delegations from the following countries:
Albania, Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy,
Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland and the Ukraine. The
Russian delegate could not attend because his visa was refused.
-The European meeting decided on the creation of a liaison bureau on the
basis of the declaration submitted to the European meeting. This
European liaison bureau constituted a correspondence committee that
would publish every fifteen days a 4-page supplement in the ILC
International Newsletter a weekly publication of the International
Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples, information on European
institutions, and information sent by correspondents from each country.
- The Liaison bureau of the European meeting is made up by the following
people:
Germany: Becker Henrich; Hening Frey; Belgium: Larsimont Philippe;
Spain: Luis Gonzalez, Manuel Arroyo Martin; France: Pierre Besse,
Michele Delaine, Clarisse Delalondre, Olivier Doriane, Marc Gauquelin,
Daniel Gluckstein, Luc Lamy, Denis Langlet, Jean-Claude Loew,
Jean-Charles Marquiset, Véronique Pépers, Joachim Salamero, Aimé Savy,
Marie-Claude Schidlower, Gérard Schivardi, Daniel Shapira, Michele
Simonnin; Great Britain: Charalambus Charlie, Cholewka Stefan; Greece: Hélene
Astériou; Italy, Lorenzo Varaldo, Ugo Croce; Portugal: Carmelinda
Pereira; Romania: Constantin Cretan, Marian Tudor; Serbia: Pavluvsko
Imsirovic, Jacim Milunovic, Modrag Perovic; Switzerland: Alexandre Anor,
Luc Delay, Grazziano Pestoni, Michel Guillot; Sweden: Sixto Iturra,
Robert Johansson; Ukraine: Vitaly Koulik.
To contact us:
International Entente of Workers and Peoples, 87, rue du Faubourg-St-Denis
75010 Paris
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SPAIN
Correspondence from Spain
Elections and class war
Next March 14, Spain will hold general elections. Aznar's
government, of the popular neo-franquista party has been in power for
eight years. Over the course of thee years it has been one of the best
pupils in the implementation of European directives. The results are
there: the unemployment rate is the highest in Europe and over a third
of labor contracts are precarious.
During all this period Aznar's government has provoked and accentuated
the confrontation between and against peoples, notably against the
Basque and Catalan people. He dragged Spain into war against Iraq,
despite the unanimous opposition of the population. Last year, the
anti-war demonstrations against the government were amongst the largest
in the world.
The government, which represents the interests of the large
multinationals and the old Franquista apparatus, increased provocations
in an attempt not to lose the elections. That is why the central axis of
their campaign is to establish an equal sign between the PSOE (the
Spanish Socialist Party) and the nationalist parties with the military
actions of the ETA. Aznar insisted particularly that the PSOE should
align itself with the State against the democratic rights of the Basque
and Catalan people in the name of the anti-terrorist fight. Under these
conditions, the working class - which has been confronted with a new
wave of industrial conversions and outsourcing/relocations, demanded
their unions, the UGT and the Workers Commissions, forge a united action
against the layoffs.
Here are several examples of events during the past weeks: the workers
at the naval ship yards in Cadiz, Seville, El Ferrol and Sestao, from
north to south of Spain, who belong to the government owned firm Izar,
are on strike in defense of their collective convention and against the
layoffs and the announced closure of the naval yards. Let us remember
that there are now only 11,000 workers remaining in the naval yards in
Spain, comparied with 40,000 in 1984. El Pais of February 15
said: "In 1984 the reconversion was accomplished two years before
the entrance of Spain into the Common Market (nowadays the European
Union), and at their insistence by the suppression of 60% of jobs."
On Wednesday, February 26 the management of the government owned firm
Izar , broke the negotiations of the collective convention to let the
conflict rot. Izar gained time, because the intentions of the
government, if it postpones the elections is to impose a greater
flexibility and numerous layoffs.
After four weeks, a series of multinationals - notably those located in
Barcelona - announced the relocation of their enterprises: Samsung, the
textile firm Galler, Phillips, Nissan, Printer (automobile components),
Autotex, etc.
Faced with the resistance of the workers, the regional government of
Catalunia, the employers and the unions met on February 17 to "pact
a common strategy against relocation." This only translated into an
offer of a higher indemnisation for layoffs and promises of regrading
for the workers.
During the past few days the UGT is organizing a meeting of union
delegates in all the towns and cities, to draw up a balance sheet on the
Aznar government. That was the case in Barcelona on February 18 and in
Madrid on February 23. In Barcelona the pre-electoral character of this
assembly was expressed by the word: "Enough!" This was
repeated by all the speakers. It meant: "Enough of the PP
government, enough of counter reforms, enough attacks against
liberties!" Of course the speakers gave Europe as an example of
democracy, a sorry statement to be sure, .since it is Aznar who publicly
defends the most open measures of social counter reform adopted at the
Lisbon summit of the European Union.
But the sentiments of the workers' representatives, the factory
delegates was clear. Loud applause was heard when the speakers made
reference to the general strike of June 20, 2002 against retirement
reforms, or when they referred to the place formerly occupied and still
occupied by the UGT at the forefront of the anti-war mobilization. The
participants stood up to applaud the representative of the Organization
of the Metal and Building Federation, Isabel Martínez, when she
announced after returning from a picketline that the petrochemical
center of Repsol, at Tarragona (2,500 workers) had just gone on strike
agains sub-contracting.
An open letter to Zapatero, the secretary of the PSOE circulated among
the delegates. The POSI [Internationalist Socialist Wokers Party,
Spanish section of the Fourth International] candidates to the
legislature were at the initiative of this letter which stated:
"The majority of the Spanish people demand the repeal of the social
counter reforms imposed by the Aznar government. The majority aspire to
live and work in peace. They demand the return of the troops from Iraq.
They expect that the Socialist Party and Zapatero will take the lead in
establishing a policy to reestablish the fraternity amongst peoples and
to repeal anti-democratic measures and laws.
"Comrade Zapatero, we are convinced that a positive response on
your part to these demands of the majority will permit millions of
workers and youths who are already mobilized against the Aznar
government, to gather around the PSOE. As for us, we are prepared to
support all measures that you would take in this sense of regrouping the
fighting force of the workers in these elections..."
A few days before the elections, the Franquista forces , thanks to the
bias of the large communications networks, are insisting that the PSOE
to bow to their demands. The next few weeks will be decisive.
- Correspondent.
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BELGIUM
An open letter to the presidents of the PS and SPA, and to all the
members of Parliament of the PS and SPA
Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen members of parliament, comrades:
Via this letter we launch an appeal to stop the regressive social
policies taken by the government.
Your parties, the PS and the SPA ( Flemish Socialist Party) were the
great winners of the legislative elections in May 2003. The workers
(including the unemployed) those entitled to state benefits,.the youth
who voted massively socialist did so in order to give you the mandate to
stop the social regression which has affected them for many years. You
were elected to defend public services and more precisely, to suppress
article 80 which allows the exclusion of unemployed from opposition
parties.
Therefore after the installation of the new Verhofstadt government (in
which the ministers of your parties occupy all the key posts regarding
social matters in relation to public services) there was a barrage of
measures, in applying the directives and treaties of the European Union,
that went precisely against the interests and aspirations that your
electorate charged you to defend.
For example :
… A law was passed which will permit the split of the SNBC into two
entities (applying one of the European directives which insists on the
'liberalization' of the railways.)
… Against the advice of the FGTB, the Verhofstadt government, with the
support of regional governments, imposed a system of service titles in
the name of «decreasing the unemployment rate» required after March
2000 by the European summit in Lisbon. The service titles are none other
than the promotion of work for low wages that will result in a loss of
revenue up to 96 euros (a month) by the unemployed who pass from the ALE
(local employment agencies) to that of service titles.
… In application of the directions at the afore-mentioned summit in
Lisbon, it was a cabinet minister's staff of the SPA who decided with
the support of all the socialist ministers (SPA as PS) to install a new
system which would permit the exclusion of unemployed of all categories:
from other parties, isolated, heads of families.
… Already the government does not hide its intention to reduce the age
of the effective pension and to replace the pre-pension system as well
as other essential gains which make up the Belgian social model (notably
the legal pension-private as well as public-threatened by the
encouragement given by the government to private complimentary
pensions.)
All this happens through the application of directives and treaties of
the European Union. Continually, political leaders respond to questions
regarding their antisocial policy : «We do not want this, it is Europe
that requires it !» Is that the price for accepting the lack of
responsibility of our elected officials? Is this admissible?
On December 4 on the occasion of a vote in Parliament on the enlargement
of the European Union from 15 to 25 countries the president of the PS
declared: «The socialists find themselves pressured to express doubts
about the building of a prosperous and unified Europe. He added, «I
share the concerns of our fellow-citizens.»
All the population sees it: the European Union is the continuous
liquidation of our rights, of our public services, and finally the
popular sovereignty because everything is decided on the authority of
the European Union in application of the treaty of Maastricht.
On the occasion of the debate in the Chamber on the enlargement of the
European Union, the representative of the SPA declared: «If it is true
that the result of the CIG is what one fears I believe that with the
enlargement we will have committed a serious mistake.» On December 13
the inter-governmental conference (CIG) which gathered the leaders of 25
governments members of the European Union or prospective candidates ,
ended in failure by the non-adoption of a project for a Constitution.
Meanwhile, no government contested the profoundly antisocial and
antidemocratic European 'Constitution' project. The lack of agreement
between governments originates in the profound divergence on the
distribution of powers between them within the European Union.
The failure of this European summit has opened a crisis in the entire
European Union. It confirms the fears of the SP.A representative to the
Chamber who said, «In that case we will have committed a mistake.»
Despite this, should everything continue as before or even worse? Should
the European directives be applied, even if the social situation becomes
disastrous? The FGTB [Beglian Trade Union Federation] declared at
multiple proceedings that it was not acceptable to continue on this
course.
Regarding measures against unemployment, didn't the president of the
Union Federation of Metallurgists of Brabant (FGTB-CMB), mandated by an
assembly of 100 trade union delegates, have the right to send an «open
letter to 'our' socialist ministers» (published in Le Soir, January 22)
telling them regarding the measures against the unemployed:
«You obviously ignore the situation of millions of unemployed citizens
of Brussels without any prospects of employment, to whom the 'market' is
closed because 'they don't fit a profile in demand'.» We will exclude
them because they won't be able to 'prove' that they wish to be
reintegrated because no one will hire the in the Postal Service or in
the banks, or in he local, regional, federal administrations? The
companies in the process of constant restructuring or relocation? Those
very companies that will not have the attraction of a pre-pension to
avoid the social breakage of restructuring
«Is that what the voters gave you as their mandate in the elections?
Towards whom will they turn henceforth to defend their interests, the
interests of active and inactive workers Can we still expect from you a
sound socialist response?»
On January 26 the president and the secretary of the regional Liège-Huy-Waremme
of the FGTB directed an open letter to the PS members of parliament of
the three districts denouncing the measures wanted by the government
against the unemployed saying :
«We demand that you put all your efforts to stop the rush and prevent
(if there is still time) the taking of those iniquitous measures. If it
is impossible for you to obtain satisfaction within the authority of the
party we ask you not to vote in favor of the law which will be passed in
the next weeks in order to apply these measures. We will observe the
stand taken by each one, in order to take this into account in the
following months. You will understand that the decisions which each one
of you will take in the following weeks, will greatly condition the
nature of our future relations. Our reproaches are great, we do not wish
to weaken the elected of the PS in their daily work., Nevertheless, the
recent results of your work have decieved us profoundly and diminished
the level and the quality of life of our affiliated regardless of those
elected or the parties targeted."
Our comrades are right: these measures are unacceptable. As well as the
measures against the unemployed, as those taken in preparation against
public services, pensions (in the private as well as public sector),
work contracts, etc. They are totally contrary to the mandate received
by the PS as well as the SPA after the legislative elections. The
comrades are right to tell you: the mandate entrusted to you by the
workers must be respected.
Isn't it your duty to:
- Respect the mandate given by the workers?
- Annul the measures against the unemployed, against public services,
against those who have nothing but their work to live on?
- Stop all these measures of social regression?
This open letter was sent on February 16 at the initiative of the «Committee
against the social regression imposed by the European Union »
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UKRAINE
«The public urban transport is one of the 'islands' of the conquest of
the October Revolution that lives in defense of the workers' interests.
Privatization is the destruction of workers' rights.»
Background
On February 16, 2004 our comrades of the Borotba Union (The
Struggle) in the Ukraine issued the first issue of their newsletter «Our
Position» which will be published every fortnight. In the first number,
the activists of Borotba, tell of their campaign in defense of public
urban transport that the municipality of Kiev has decided to privatize.
They indicate that over 400 workers of the capital signed their appeal
(read below), as well as a letter addressed to the deputy of Kharkov by
the activist workers' organizations against the vote at the second
reading of the 'reform' project of the Soviet Labor Code.
The editorial presents the decision to publish this newsletter:
«At this time in the Ukraine and the entire world there is a veritable
offensive by capital against the rights of workers. Work legislation and
union laws are destroyed, social guarantees are diminished, they
'reform' the pension systems, they privatize social protection,
educationYear after year, the public sector of the economy is reduced as
the private part increases.We see how and thanks to what the 'new
masters' of our country grow rich and the mere workers are reduced to
misery.
That is why the «Borotba» Union (The Struggle) has taken the
initiative to publish this newsletter regularly «Nacha positsia» (Our
Position) dedicated to the movement of workers of the Ukraine fighting
in defense of their rights. We hope that activists workers, trade
unionists and students will gather around this workers' publication, all
those to whom the conquests of October 1917 are dear.
The editors of the newsletter «Our Position» invite the activists of
the workers' movement, the trade union activists, the young workers and
students, the leftist press to collaborate with this newsletter. We
expect your articles, your contributions and your information.»
Appeal of the «Borotba» Union NO to the privatization of public
transportation!
As of March 14, the municipal administration of Kiev will increase
the fares on urban public transport. The fare for a trip on the subway
will be doubled, that is to say it will cost 1 grivna. The price of a
trip on the tramway, trolleybus or bus will also go up. The price of a
trip on the 'Marchroutki' (minibus) will also go up. They are raising
the price of public transportation for students and those who attend
general learning establishments (on average 70%).
The reason for the increase in fares appears to be the desire of the
municipal administration to increase the attractiveness of municipal
transportation in the hope of an eventual privatization. The municipal
administration intends to transform the urban transportation services
into a business before the end of the year
The municipal bureaucrats of Kiev justify a future privatization by the
deficient functioning of urban transport and count on the need for
subsidies from the town's budget, which the town's administration wishes
to get rid of. They do not take into account in particular that the
subway is one of the most used modes of transport, cheap and that it has
an enormous social importance.
Will it still be accesible to the poorest after the increase in fares?
It is evident that for a retired person where the pension is only
120-150 grivnas, the doubling in transport prices is a severe blow to
the budget.
The increase in fares strikes the ordinary workers and students since
they are the largest group who use urban public transport.
The experience of privatization of transportation abroad shows that
privatization of transportation leads to its destruction, to layoffs of
thousands of workers at the depots, the conductors, the suppression of
lines, and the lowering of the quality of the equipment.
Urban public transport is one of the 'islands' of the conquest of the
October Revolution, which remain in defense of workers' interests.
Privatization is the destruction of workers' rights.
That is why we the «Borotba» Union, are engaged in a campaign to
collect signatures against the privatization of urban public transport
and against the increase in fares. «Borotba» calls the workers'
organizations of the town of Kiev to express their decided refusal to
the increase in fares and their refusal of privatization of public
transportation.
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The workers of Kharkov against the new Labor Code
To our representative at the Supreme Rada of Ukraine V.M. Litvine,
deputy to the Supreme Rada of the Ukraine.
We, the representatives of social and worker organizations of the
Kharkov region, direct ourselves to you in relation to the vote in first
reading by the Supreme Rada of the Ukraine on the project of a Labor
Code.
Sadly the situation of the rights of workers in the Ukraine is extremely
negative since 1991. Unpaid salaries, massive layoffs, violations of
different laws regulating work relations, have become daily events in
our society.
Likewise the alarming situation of workers in small and medium
businesses. The workers are hired without a work contract being signed
and without it being regularly entered in their record book , without
deductions for retirement and naturally without any of this being put
into practice.
In this situation one could have expected that the proposed project of a
Labor Code would take into account this situation and would prevent
violations of the rights of workers. The result is exactly the opposite.
Article 22 of the Ukranian Constitution guarantees respect for the
rights and liberties of its citizens and does not admit its suppression,
nor the reduction of its contents or its expansion in the event of the
passing of a new law or by amendment of existing laws, the governmental
project is bristling with gross violations of this article.
Excluded from the draft is the right of the worker to defend his or her
rights through collective organs (trade unions) in the case of layoffs,
the right of workers of a business---whatever the form of ownership-to
defend their common interests by the breaking of a collective work
contract, in the case of it not being respected.
The banning of work in rival businesses clearly recalls serfdom.
This draft Labor Code contains a series of inadmissible points, and
contrary to the project essential matters were not integrated into it.
Consequently we apprise you of our displeasure by our energetic protest
against this Labor Code.
We demand:
- Do not adopt the government's project for a Labor Code in
second reading;
- Considering that it is well known that the Labor Code is called
"the little Constitution" and that the majority of the
deputies scoff at the laws (we observe how the clans of Koutchma and
Youchenko fight for power), we demand that the possibility be given to
worker collectives and social organizations to examine the projected law
in order to make their observations.
- If our demands are not taken into account and if this draconian
government project is adopted, it will leave us with no other option
that to appeal to the workers to take action in support of their
constitutional rights.
signed/
- The regional representative of the "Pan-Ukrainian Union of
Workers"-- N.S. Dourikhine.
- The representative of the association "Kharkovshina Workers
Collective", A.F. Artamonov
- The representative of the association "Working Women for the
future of Ukrainian children", N.V. Sakharova.
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SWITZERLAND
March 8, 2004, for the defense of our rights
Contributed by working women
Our correspondents hereby reply to the questionnaire on the
consequences of European directives on working women proposed by the
Commission of Working Women of the International Liaison Committee.
Switzerland is not a member of the European Union and consequently
the rights of women were called into question because of the bias and
pressures of European directives. That is why after many years we were
able to note the consequences of the application of the Treaty of
Maastricht, including in Switzerland.
In the areas of extreme importance for all women, the revision of the
old age pension (AVS), maternity leave, maintenance of protection for
young workers and apprentices, the Swiss Socialist Party and the Union
of Swiss Trade Unions (USS) agree to defend these rights. March 8 is the
occasion for a mobilization on these questions.
Directive 76-207-CEE "relative to professional equality between
women and men"
Switzerland denounced at the beginning of the 1990's Convention 89
of the ILO prohibiting night work for women in industry. It opened the
door to revision of the law on work which was based in great part on the
name of equality of men/women. A first revision, restoring night work
for women in industry was an opening in forbidding work on Sundays and
was rejected in a popular vote in 1996.
Two years later a new revision re-establishing night work for women, was
accepted. After January 2000 women in Switzerland can be hired for night
work. Numerous industries call for women workers who, on average, earn
20% less than men. For example, the case of a 40-year old woman, single
mother raising two grand children, works at night in a packing plant in
Valais for a net salary of 2,300FS (1,370 Euros). From that sum one must
deduct medical insurance and housing and obviously there is little left
for living expenses. In comparison, the low salaries which one finds in
catering and sales are around 3,000.FS (1,785 Euros).
Directive 92-85-CEE -"security and health of working pregnant
women, mothers of newborns or breast feeding at work."
Maternity insurance was written into the Swiss Constitution over 50
years ago. But up to the present that insurance was not integrated into
legislation. Only women covered by a collective convention or working in
public services benefited from maternity leave. For the others a
maternity leave of eight weeks is foreseen in working law but without
the guarantee of a paid salary. A law on maternity leave, covering 80%
of the salary for14 weeks after giving birth was voted on last year in
Parliament. The UDC launched a referendum against this law, figuring the
women must stay home. The referendum was defeated and the public will be
called to vote in September 2004.
The Union of Swiss Trade Unions (USS) and the Socialist Party appeal for
a NO vote on this referendum and for the application of the law.
Directive 94-33-CEE "relative to the protection of youth at
work"
Under pressure from employers and in the name of alignment with the
European Union, a project to revise the work law to lower the age of
protection for young workers and apprentices to 18 years is under
consultation.
At present, young workers benefit from protection up to age 19
(forbidden to work at night, or on Sundays, length of rest, protection
against dangerous work, etc.) and apprentices in formation up to 20
years old. This revision, to which the Union of Swiss Trade Unions is
firmly opposed, the Socialist Party and other organizations followed a
consultation on a new protection ordinance. On this occasion the
employers and bourgeois parties demanded a lowering of the protection
age to 18 years. Certain employer circles wanted to lower the working
age of children for light work to 11 years (actually it is 13 years!).
Social protections, health system
The social security system has seen modifications, which were made
principally on the backs of women. For instance, the retirement age
which up until 1996 was still 62 years for a woman became 63 years in
2002 and will be 64 years as of 2006. If the 11th AVS revision, which
will be voted on May 16 is accepted, this means that women after 2009
must wait until age 65 to retire (the same age as men).
Regarding the 11th revision of the AVS (old age and survivors insurance)
this law foresees aligning the right to a widow's pension to the right
to a widower's pension , which is more restricted. Nowadays to benefit
from a widow's pension a woman must have children (even those of age),
must be at least 45 years old and must have been married at least 5
years. With this revision only the widows and widowers with a minor
child would be entitled. It is also foreseen to lower the widows' and
widowers' pensions to 60% of retirement pensions, against 80% at present
(this would mean a monthly loss of up to 412 FS. Or 245 Euros.)
We must not forget that indexation for men as well as women will not be
held every two years but every three years.
It is against this 11th revision of the AVS that the socialist Party and
the USS have launched a popular initiative referendum that obtained in
record time (48 hours) 80,000 signatures. The voting which will take
place on May 16 constitutes a major stake for women and all employees.
In the framework of the 4th revision of the AI (disability insurance)
that went into effect on January 1, 2004, the complementary pensions for
spouses (usually women) were suppressed. Before under certain
conditions, a person's spouse who became disabled could be granted a
pension representing 30% of the disabled pension. For example, a person
who was entitled to a monthly AI insurance of 1,800 FS (1,071 Euros)
could receive for the husband/wife 540 FS (321 Euros) or a total of
2,360 FS (1,392 Euros). The fact is that since January 1 only 1,800 FS
is allocated in the framework of the new right, representing a loss of
23% for a couple!
In the same fashion the daily indemnities of the AI were increased 30%
for married people but after January 1 this is no longer the case.
Other aspects of this law have been reviewed in regard to men and women,
notably the suppression of a quarter pension and the appearance of a 3/4
pension.
Without going into technical details that are far too long, this means
that henceforth people who become invalid at 25% must look for
complimentary services that are funded by taxes and which are not
awarded except under certain economic conditions.
As to the introduction of a 3/4 pension this is a risk for numerous
retirees. AI which used to benefit a 100% pension now represents a
lowering of 25% of this last. Considering the law foresees equally that
all the AI cases be reviewed in 2004.
Swiss legislation regarding medical insurance has been neglected. After
the introduction of the LAMAL (law on medical insurance) in 1998, the
cost of insurance premiums rose and deductibles also rose greatly. Even
though in order to reduce the cost of monthly premiums the insured chose
higher deductibles (up to 1,500 FS (1,000 Euros). The consequence was
that people waited to see a doctor. Women especially did not go for
their annual gynecological check up recommended for their health.
The reimbursements for care have been reduced. More and more
reimbursements are not made for medication, and controls of basic
insurance are reduced little by little. If people to not have the means
to pay for complimentary insurance, they do not have the right to
certain care.
Temporary (casual) work
Casual and informal work has been developing in Switzerland. It
applies in great measure to women. A new style of work is becoming the
norm: the on-call work. A study estimates that 200,000 people work on
call, around 5,4% of workers or one employee out of 20. Two
thirds of these are women, essentially married women with children,
people with lower education or those looking for work. Over half the
people working on call do not benefit from a guaranteed minimum of
working hours. The places where this work is most frequent are those
under-unionized like retail commerce, hotels, catering or health care.
According to this study almost always 30% of the on call activities are
situated in the public sector or in fields connected to public sectors
such as health or the traditional federal agencies
"privatized" (Post Office of CFF). The hourly pay of workers
on call is around 20% less than the usual salary in the field.
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ALGERIA
"THE ALGERIAN NATION MUST LIVE! The Algerian Republic must live!
ELECTORAL PLATFORM OF LOUISA HANOUNE, CANDIDATE OF THE WORKERS PARTY TO
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
In the name of the PT, I address all women and all men of conscience:
Warning! Warning!
Our country is in danger of disintegration
The agreement between the government and the "Aarouchs" is
extremely dangerous to the national unity. It dismembers local and
national institutions, parliamentary groups on regional and linguistic
basis.
The local and national elected officials of the wilayas of Tizi-Ouzou,
Bejaia and other wilayas of all political tendencies are not
"elected indus". They are kabyles, amazighophones, but these
are Algerian elected officials, elected by the Algerian nation, active
in the framework of institutions and laws of the Algerian Republic, one
and indivisible. They are not responsible for the frightful conditions
which prevailed in the elections organized in 2002, in conditions of
extreme violence and in which the integrity of the nation was at stake.
They are not responsible for the origins of the crisis that after April
2001 following a criminal provocation, held hostage the wilayas of
Kabylie opening the door to adventure and adventurers from everywhere
who profiting from the impasse, diverted the legitimate demands of youth
and the parents of victims to the service of obscure designs.
The Algerians who demonstrated in 2001 in the wilayas of Kabylie and in
Alger said: we want rights, solutions in as much as we are Algerians!
Yes, the political, democratic and social demands exist in the wilayas
of Kabylie through the population. They must be positively organized
because they are legitimate. But for this to happen, the unity and
integrity of the nation must be preserved.
The constitutionalization of the Tamazight tongue as the national
language in 2002 is undoubtedly a formidable gain for the Algerian
nation. But fundamentally, the recognition of Tamazight as the national
and official language through the recourse of article 176 of the
Constitution, contributes to the reinforcement of the unity of the
nation with its two linguistic components by institutionalizing equality
in the rights that establish any republic, implying the utilization of
Tamazight at all levels of institutions next to the Arab language. This
consecration will definitely close the door to various manipulations.
The general amnesty in favor of condemned or pursued youth will end the
tension maintained since April.
The prosecution of those responsible for loss of human life and attacks
on the physical integrity of young people, is part of the legally
constituted state and sets the bases for the abolition of the Hogra and
impunity.
Moral and material reparations are the duty of the State towards the
victims of acts of violence and crimes committed by its agents.
If the problem of representativity arises in the wilayas of Kabylie, it
is equally the case in the rest of the country considering the rate of
abstention of over 53% and irregularities registered nationally the day
of the ballot. So, the agreement signed on January 22, 2004 should be
removed and replaced by a democratic solution that gives back the word
to the people so that they can choose their representatives nationally.
On the other hand, the legitimate demands of the population in the
wilayas of Kabylie are very specific, of a democratic and social order,
but the platform of El-Kseur which is a project of society, cannot
enlist the wilayas nor be imposed on the nation through blackmail. It
only represents its authors to express their own political vision and
not that of the whole of the citizens of Kabylie, who are recognized in
the different national political programs.
At the request of the PT, I address all persons of good will, all
Algerians who favor peace and democracy.
Warning! Warning!
This spiral must be stopped!
There are numerous examples in the world where so-called peace
agreements in Africa, Yugoslavia and Palestine, signed under foreign
sponsorship, only unleashed horrors and massacres. In this vein, the
agreement of January 22-23, 2004 is not the product of an Algerian
decision. That agreement is dictated by foreign parties to provoke the
dismemberment of Algeria. It is established through the declaration of
political actors who advocate the partition of the country and who have
directly solicited foreign intervention including the military by
inscribing their own country on the list of "hoodlum
countries". We are convinced that no Algerian institution whatever
its politics can and should support an agreement where its application
would inevitably bring the dismemberment of the nation, its
disappearance. Isn't it the intent of this agreement to denationalize
the oil reserves, to remove all obstacles to the voracious appetites of
the multinationals?
In effect, wasn't that which served tribalism provoked and fueled in
Zaire, that led to a bleeding tragedy while the immense riches of the
country were pillaged? Isn't this goal sought through the ethnization of
Iraq, the division of the Ivory Coast? Don't the agreements of pseudo
peace imposed on Sudan start with the division of oil riches according
to foreign dictates?
In the name of the Workers Party, I affirm: No people, the American
people included, have an interest in letting Algeria sink into chaos.
All the people of world have declared loud and clear demonstrating by
the millions against the war and for the sovereignty of Iraq. Also in
denouncing the appalling militarization of the planet in detriment of
social economic progress.
In the name of the PT, I sound the alarm bell.
Warning! Warning!
Our country is in a storm
A storm produced by terrifying world developments, targeting people,
workers and nations and which are refracted in our country by the
accumulation of disorganized problems and which have opened the road to
foreign pressures, and the risk of direct foreign intervention.
Is it by chance that the open crisis in Algeria in May 1991 took place
three months after the U.S. military aggression against Iraq while
certain "economic reforms" were introduced on the sly during
the war? Is it by chance that the serious institutional crisis started
in 2003 in our country coincides with the war of occupation of Iraq?
No! There are not haphazard events in politics and the social and
economic disaster introduced by the Structural Adjustment Plans applied
in the name of the crisis by outside demands demonstrated this. Aren't
all the continents experiencing an offensive of extreme brutality,
started in 1991 and increased after September 2001 against the social
gains of the workers and peoples, against the State-Nations, the unity
of nations, to seat the exclusive reign of the multinationals and lower
the cost of labor? Globalization is in effect the destruction pure and
simple of nations of all they represent as sovereign institutions, of
all the political and social advances they have achieved through the
struggles of their workers and peoples.
To those who pretend that globalization, that is to say the destruction
of nations, is "unavoidable," we oppose the right of the
people, the Algerian people, to live free and in peace, to self
determination, to choose the form and the contents of its institutions,
which they need to exercise their sovereignty, to cooperate freely
amongst themselves for the prosperity and the progress of human
civilization.
Who can deny that everywhere the workers and youth are dead set against
the politics of privatization-destruction, of deregulation and savage
exploitation, against the rampant savagery they provoke? Does this not
mean that everywhere, the immense majority challenge the new
single-thought that "globalization is inevitable", utilized to
impose regression as an allout offensive, the destruction of social and
democratic rights, such as the provisional relocation plan for families
affected by the earthquake.
(To be continued next week)
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