Tag: centralism

Unions and the downward auctioning of working conditions

16 February, 2022 · Global situation

Union referendum at Ford Almussafes this week. Every time the unions organize a downward auction of working conditions they resort to the atomization and silencing ceremony of the ballot box and the secret ballot, a "democratic" alternative to the open discussion and the vote by show of hands during a collective assembly... lest it becomes apparent that there is a collective interest capable of imposing itself over individual fear.
Union referendum at Ford Almussafes this week. Every time the unions organize a downward auction of working conditions they resort to the atomization and silencing ceremony of the ballot box and the secret ballot, a "democratic" alternative to the open discussion and the vote by show of hands during a collective assembly... lest it becomes apparent that there is a collective interest capable of imposing itself over individual fear.

The ideas and even the expressions of bidenism are beginning to seep into European state propaganda. The most eye-catching one relates to the supposed benefits of “strong trade unions”. According to Biden, the weakness of the unions in the USA made it possible for large automotive companies to convert multi-localization into wage dumping. However, the European experience tells us exactly the opposite: within the EU and even within the same country, in sectors with “strong unions” it is the unions themselves which organize competition between factories of the same company and the downward auctioning of working conditions.

Self-organized mass strike grows across Iran

15 July, 2021 · Iran

Originating in the oil industry, the largest mass strike in the last 30 years is taking place throughout Iran. It is a movement self-organized by the workers and centralized through assemblies.
Originating in the oil industry, the largest mass strike in the last 30 years is taking place throughout Iran. It is a movement self-organized by the workers and centralized through assemblies.

The new wave of struggles involves more workers in a single assembly movement than the mass strike which swept through Iran’s petrochemical sector, steel mills and power plants last August. Organized at first through Telegram groups, workers tended to centralize the struggles from the first moment, organizing themselves in general village and city assemblies and then in assemblies between centers and localities, permanently connected. To this day, the workers have defeated both the companies’ attempts to divide the workforces and the threats of repression.

Four Keys to Overcome Fear and Overcome Slaughter

1 October, 2020 · Morality

EU food aid distributed in France.The banner reads "Products EAFD". The EAFD is the "European Fund to help the most Disadvantaged".

Under the grammar of the fear of unemployment and poverty what they call economy -the accumulation of capital- has been revealed as an arithmetic of slaughter. But everything that is presented to us as “superhuman forces”, unbeatable, inexorable… is not.