A-Infos (en) France, CNT-AIT, Anarchosyndicalisme #179: The class struggle is a real fight to the death (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

From now on, when there is a strike in France, it is necessarily led by 
privileged people, who only think of their navels. Thus the BFMtv, the Cnews, the 
newspaper "Le Monde", and other more or less mediocre editorialists... have 
stated without laughing that the workers of the TOTAL and EXXON oil refineries 
earn around 5000E/month! ---- Damn, there are indeed well-paid jobs, what are we 
waiting for, to send our CVs! ---- And by the way, how come so few people apply? 
It's elementary my dear, people, especially among workers (of whom a good number 
of unemployed people usually work as workers) are just lazy people who don't want 
to work, but rather stay ad vitam æternam at Pôle Emploi, to receive unemployment 
benefits, which are necessarily expensive for the community; "What a lack of 
civility on the part of these people, it's scandalous! "As an average journalist 
of these news channels would say.

Joking aside, it is true that refinery workers earn a higher than average salary, 
but certainly not 5000E/month, and to find out, you should especially take a look 
at the hourly rate that these people earn, by avoiding including the various 
bonuses to which they are entitled, and which all the same "distort" the salary a 
little. Contrary to what the newspaper "Le Monde" claims. Because when we find 
ourselves unemployed or retired, the administrative services rely mainly on the 
hourly rate that we had during our work period. And in general, the trades of 
workers, where one earns "a good living", are almost always dangerous jobs, where 
one risks one's life every day, often harmful to health, with a life expectancy 
reduced because of exposure, often continuous, to various chemicals and other 
crap causing various and varied cancers... It is in a way a "deal" that the State 
imposes between the worker and the boss.

Normally, according to the law (i.e. the rules of the game dictated by the 
bourgeoisie), companies are required to take all necessary measures to ensure the 
safety and protect the physical and mental health of their employees ( written in 
black on white on the INSEE website).

In many trades in industry, workers are often exposed to dangerous products, jobs 
that combine physical constraints, pace, pressure, staggered hours, fatigue, 
these trades are often physically hard, most workers in industry, when they are 
advancing in age, necessarily have mental or physical health problems. The manual 
trades are frequently the hardest and the worst paid, and the least considered, 
and for which you pay more or less, at the end of your career.
Also according to INSEE, in the north of France, 35% of workers are exposed to 
chemical agents and 13% to carcinogenic chemicals. These risks are inherent in 
many professions in industry, but also in cleaning, agriculture, even health.

And then, in the meantime, the bourgeois left would like to take advantage of 
this to "restore the icing", and is probably taking advantage of these social 
conflicts to go fishing for voters. This Sunday, October 16, 2022, the left of 
capital (ATTAC, LFI, PS, EELV, NPA, PCF, POI, etc....), offered us the usual fair 
against "expensive life", with two "DJs" to warm up the crowd. Make no mistake 
about it, they may say that they agree with us on the subject of bourgeois 
society and capitalist exploitation, they will hasten to say that it is also a 
question of claiming rights and freedoms within the society in which we live. In 
particular the right to strike, to unionize, to associate all that in the name of 
course of the working class and democracy. By forgetting to say that these 
so-called "rights" are only granted under certain conditions, such as legality, 
even loyalty vis-à-vis justice (bourgeois, always the same), and without annoying 
the Employers too much if possible, and that any of these "rights" can be 
challenged overnight.

The reality is that daily, we exhaust ourselves producing value in the service of 
capital By leaving our health, our strength, our energy, our brain, sweat, blood, 
disease, sometimes death. That if the bourgeoisie gives us the right to discuss, 
to unionize and to send our so-called representatives to negotiate the price of 
our work, we are still not equal in this society with our employers and leaders 
of the country, the heads of big banks, shareholders of the CAC 40.  When these 
bourgeois deplore that there are too many strikes in the France region, it is 
that unofficially, we are not equal before their laws and their justice. Unions 
like F.O or the CFDT advocate dialogue, discussion with employers, in order to be 
able to obtain "social advantages", but if we were so equal, we would not be 
obliged to strike often, since the discussions and dialogues only function on the 
condition of being on an equal footing with the propertied classes in society.

It is nevertheless obvious that even for the Employers, our demands, for wage 
increases and the improvement of working conditions, against massive layoffs, are 
all the same considered legitimate (well, almost all of them...), but for this 
Employers, it seems just as legitimate to "protect" their private property that 
is their business, whether industrial, agricultural or tertiary, the situation is 
the same. Even if it means having the DGSI intervene against strikers (indeed, 
the management of RTE, to put down a strike, called on the anti-terrorist cops. 
Sources "BLAST" and "Regard" on "youtube"), put them down, even push them to the 
suicide (always the same sources "BLAST" and "Regard" on youtube). So things are 
clear, those who command are those who have the economic power, and who can put 
you back to work by force if necessary.

Faced with a real proletarian organization which would fight for a real reduction 
in working time and a real increase in wages, capital would have no interest in 
recognizing the right of association of employees, of assembly, of the press, of 
unionization because that these would inevitably damage the rate of profit and 
their sacrosanct national economy. And an all-democratic society that it likes to 
claim, will release its claws through repression, like any state in the world, 
with all its cops, its justice, but also the police auxiliaries like the unions 
and social services.

In a lot of workplaces people are physically broken, in factories, how many 
people are there in aerospace or automotive contractors, who have health issues 
related to conditions of work they have endured for years? In a box like 
Mecachrome, an aeronautics subcontractor, which we have talked about in our 
previous issues, most of the workers who work there have health problems, with 
shitty working conditions, staggered hours, psychological pressure; these 
so-called wealthy people have derisory salaries, I doubt that a "star" scribbler 
from the great Parisian print media like the "Monde" will come there to realize 
it himself.

The fight of worker and revolutionary anarchism, beyond the immediate demands for 
higher wages or working conditions, is a fight for the abolition of wage labor 
and the advent of anarchist-communism on earth. In the meantime, let us fight 
step by step daily at work, in our neighborhoods, being wary of the state and its 
brood, which have no interest in us taking our lives in hand.

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