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Politicise your worries and worry the politicians.
IF YOU MOVE, IF WE MOVE TOGETHER THEN... ALL IS POSSIBLE
The social confrontation is spreading like wildfire! The 'Juppe' Plan' is
the last staw which will break the camels back. After the students, the
railway workers, the RATP workers (TN regional transport system) and the
postal workers come the medical workers, Air France and Air Inter workers,
lorry drivers, teachers and many others... they all come to danse.
By wanting to submit social seecurity and pensions to the laws of profit,
under the pretext of needed 'reforms', the government is not only attacking
'sectional interests', it is calling into question fundamental social rights
which concern us all... that is to say the growth of social inequalities at
every level.
Today the 'Juppe' Plan' is simply the perfection of a generalised process of
rendering our existential conditions ever more insecure: an attack on
salaries (rise in VAT, new social security contributions, wage freezes,
higher taxes on income, reductions in unemployment benefit) the development
of forms of under paid under employment (after school and community work
it's 'business'), sectoral reconstruction plans (sackings, mobility,
flexibility, relocalisation), growth in inequality of access to public
services (rise in the cost of using the RATP, the closure of maternal and
junior protection centres, rise in medical costs etc)...
Some would have us believe that this is a revolt of the 'well off'. Good
joke. The workers in the public sector are being reproached for not
accepting that which has been imposed of the private sector: the
lengthening of the number of years of pension contributions from 37 and a
half to 40 years, the degradation of working conditions, the loss of jobs,
reduced workforces and fiscal raids on income... Simply not to go under
becomes a 'pivilege'.
On the contrary, the strikers of these last few weeks have opened a breach
in the consensus of passivity and resignation. Beyond the evident need to
squash the 'Juppe' Plan', and those problems specific at every level, the
demands which are coming to light today in the movement go well beyond those
'categories' into which they would place us: they express a need to defend
not only what we have won but also to grab back a minimum quality of life.
- The right to a guaranteed income, in particular for the unemployed and
those in unstable positions.
- A huge reduction in working hours so we can all work... less,=
differently...
- Effective equality of access to social services such as health.
- The repeal of repressive and racist laws and regulations such as the
infamous 'Pasqua Laws' (TN Pasqua was a former Hoem Secretary to the right
of the right).
At the grass roots it is not only support for the strikers which is
necessary, but also our participation in the general movement: we are
neither 'spectators' nor simple 'users' but workers (public and private),
the insecure, the unemployed, students, school attenders; some are on strike
some aren't but we have the same problems we are all in the same boat, we
are victims of the same social regression.
Do the laws of economy condemn us? Let's burn the statute book! To struggle,
to achieve dialogue, to imagine and build other ways of living together it
is, now more than ever, the time for our rage, our anger, our needs and our
desires so that this generalised disatisfaction should become a movement of
generalised social confrontation, so that Chirac and Juppe' should step
aside and that we grab the maximum...
Our arms are occupation, requisition, expropriation, direct democracy,
autonomy, resistance, general strike...
Our goals are equality, justice, solidarity, mutual aid and Freedom
Collectif '18e Parallele' (Paris)
FREEDOM PRESS
http://www.lglobal.com/TAO/Freedom