A-Infos (en) WSM welcomes Ireland's public sector strike and calls for further action

Anarchist organisation Workers Solidarity Movement has congratulated public sector workers 
who took part in today’s 24-hour work stoppage and called for further stoppages “in order 
to force a change of direction from the government”. (Reports by WSM members from the 
pickets lines of the Nov 24th national strike http://www.anarkismo.net/article/15105) 
“The Irish Congress of Trade Unions made a major mistake when it called off the planned 
national stoppage on March 31st,” Kerr continued. “This simply gave the government the 
green light for further attacks on workers’ pay packets. Now we’ve begun to turn that 
tide.” ---- “We know of course that the government is not going to back down after one 
day’s strike action,” said Mr. Kerr. “That’s why workers need to get organised and build 
for further strike action. We need to unite public and private sector workers and shut the 
country down in order to demonstrate that there has to be another way. The wealthy, those 
who benefited from the Celtic Tiger, must be made to pay for the crisis they created.”

“We also know that we cannot rely on the leadership of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions 
to lead the fight against the government. Union leaders have made it clear they are 
willing to support cuts in services, allowances, working conditions and even the 
lengthening of the working week. They are simply interested in getting back into so-called 
‘social partnership’,” Kerr concluded. “What we need is a fightback controlled by workers 
on the ground, we need shop stewards and activists inside our unions to begin the work of 
convincing our colleagues to back an alternative based on making the rich ‘share the pain’”.

Statement Ends

Note to Editor:- Workers Solidarity Movement (WSM) is an Irish anarchist organisation with 
branches in Dublin, Cork and Belfast and members in several other places around the 
country. WSM members are actively involved in many community and trade union campaigns, 
and have been involved at local and workplace level in building support for the 6th 
November demos.

For more information (including reports from the picket lines) about the WSM visit our 
website http://www.wsm.ie

For confirmation and/or further comment, contact Gregor Kerr, WSM PRO on 0861501151
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