A-Infos (en) Australia, MACG Leaflet for Melbourne Workers Rally 30 Nov

Dear Comrades Please find below the leaflet the Melbourne Anarchist Communist 
Group distributed at the rally on 30 November against the Australian 
government's anti-worker laws.  The current government is a conservative one, 
while the opposition is the Australian Labor Party, usually referred to as ALP.
In Solidarity, -- Ablokeimet -- for Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group.
> TAKE THE STRUGGLE UP TO HOWARD BUILD A GENERAL STRIKE!
*	No choices
Howard's anti-worker laws are appalling, and everyone knows it.  The barefaced 
lies about “choice” are contradicted by the horror stories of people being 
sacked and offered their job back with a massive pay cut, of workers losing 
“protected” conditions at the stroke of a pen, of bosses demanding draconian 
AWAs as the price of having a job at all.  This is capitalism, here, today.

*	The bosses won't hold off forever

If big business hasn't yet used the laws against most workers, it's not because 
they're are nice guys.  It's because they're afraid.  They're worried we might 
fight back and they're worried about the electoral fallout.  This situation, 
though, can't last.  After the election, big business will launch attacks on the 
broad workforce.  They'll be hoping to take advantage of a Liberal victory 
“legitimising” Howard's anti-worker legislation, but in any event they'll need 
to protect their competitive position.  Nobody will be safe.

*	The ALP won't save us

A “Labor” government will be no saviour for workers.  In the first place, it 
would have to get any repeal of “Work Choices” through the Senate, which they 
are highly unlikely to control.  More importantly, however, the ALP is desperate 
to prove its credentials to big business, which would not tolerate any 
substantial erosion of the State-enforced supremacy of employers.  If business 
is willing to accept ALP amendments to industrial relations laws, it would only 
be as a strategic retreat in the face of a grassroots movement of workers 
themselves.

*	Build a general strike

We must control the struggle ourselves and not surrender it to union officials 
who are more interested in boosting the ALP's business credentials than in 
winning disputes.  All workers who resist the bosses' demands should be 
supported to the hilt through solidarity action and every dispute is an 
opportunity to spread the struggle further.  To knock off the laws for good and 
stop an offensive by business using their powers under Work Choices, though, we 
need a general strike and we need to start building for it now.  This struggle 
is too important to lose.


THE RANK & FILE HAVE TO TAKE CHARGE

Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group
30 November 2006
For a copy of our Aims & Principles, write to:
PO Box 2120 Lygon St North
East Brunswick 3057
macg1984@yahoo.com.au
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