A-Infos (en) strike against the war

[Ziggy <ladystardust@gmx.co.uk>]

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> Capitalism needs war - we need neither Strike!
They have started the war.  It is up to us to change history.  To stop our 
everyday routine and strike  against the war, against our worsening living 
and working conditions, against their crazy logic of profit above all 
else.  Striking is one of the most powerful weapons we have and we?re gonna 
use it!

School Kids
In the last week thousands have walked out and protested all over the 
country. They organise by word of mouth, e-mail and telephone trees. They 
squatted streets and attacked cops at Downing Street. In Oxford they 
trapped the soldiers of a recruitment stall in their van. In Manchester 
they brought city traffic to a stop.

Fire Fighters
After the union leaders cancelled the strike for Thursday, 20th March and 
recommended to accept the ?pay offer?, the fire fighters now have refused 
to do so. The conflict is not solved. In the last weeks the union leaders 
have cancelled various strikes (at Peugeot, at the Railways). We should 
take an example from the school kids and start to rely on our selves and 
each other, rather then on them.

Dockers
Last Tuesday Italian port workers went on strike against the United States 
using their workplaces to ship war equipment out to the Gulf. Against 
?being involved in preparation for a military operation in Iraq?.  A 
48-hour strike by Finnish Dockers put a stop to all cargo traffic in and 
out of Finnish ports last week.  On 8 March in Belgium hundreds of striking 
dock workers clashed with police outside European Union headquarters Friday 
over plans to open its ports to greater competition.

Oil Workers
In the last month there has been a total strike by Nigeria oil workers, 
raising supply fears in global oil markets. Truckers in Los Angeles had a 
one day work stoppage for compensation for the recent increase diesel 
prices.  2,000 oil workers in Kenya burnt bosses vehicles in a protest 
against poor working conditions and maltreatment by the management.

See for more: www.labourstart.org
What is this war about?
This war is not only about US access to oil, it is also a way to try to 
make us feel powerless. They want us to accept paying the bill for the 
crisis of their system of profits.  The average worker in the USA today 
works 6 hours more per week than 1976, for less money. Most households are 
in debt, people need two or three jobs to make ends meet, millions have 
lost their pensions in stock market crashes. This society is in crisis, 
because it can?t contain its own contradictions anymore and they hope the 
war is a way out.

·       we are supposed to work more, despite all the shiny, new, highly 
productive technology and increasing knowledge
·       billions live in poverty, while markets are overcrowded with wealth 
that can?t be sold
·       more and more workers all over the world work together in chains of 
production, but they still want us to believe in our countries or our 
companies interests

People are fed up and don?t believe the bosses and politicians promises 
anymore. In Argentina they kicked the government out of power, organised 
?peoples assemblies? to make their own decisions, a hundred factories are 
squatted and being run by the workers. This war is also meant to oppress 
our hopes and demands, our struggles for a better life. We are supposed to 
shut up and be happy that the bombs are not falling on us.

Let?s walk out against their war and crisis.
Despite the threat of legal repression in the name of ?national security?, 
despite media smear campaigns people keep on fighting.  If war is legal, if 
crisis is legal, if social cuts are legal, so what if our strike is not!

Go out! Support each other!

{prol/kolinco?]

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