1Th May: day of struggle against world capitalism
a new International Workers' Day is approaching. The systemic crisis of capitalism continues its destructive course. Large multinational corporations, Its international organizations and national governments have not managed to overcome the economic crisis that broke out in 2008, while its analysts predict, with growing concern, the certain possibility that we are close to a new crack. This increases tensions, the frictions and inter-imperialist confrontations.
The origin of the crisis is that capitalism has not managed to impose levels of exploitation on the workers of the world that allow them to sustain the accumulation of profit on which the functioning of the capitalist system depends.. Because, bourgeois governments, of the most diverse political colors, implement or attempt to implement adjustment plans that attack the income and rights of workers. And to impose such plans against the will of the majority, Governments also intensify their authoritarianism and deploy repression.
But the workers of the world, as they have always done, they resist and fight. They fight in self-defense, against adjustment measures, and advance against the governments that apply them. It is this stubborn and brave resistance of the people, that has prevented capitalism from resolving the crisis in its favor, and that has mutated the economic crisis into a political crisis as well.. There are many governments that started by applying adjustments and ended up overthrown by popular mobilization.
In several cases the mobilization has been put, Besides, to regimes that had been guaranteeing the stability of capitalist businesses for decades. Weeks ago, the working masses of Algeria and Sudan overthrew their governments, in what could be the beginning of a new Arab Spring. As in 2010-2013, the vanguard of the revolutionary mobilization is the working youth, that radicalizes and acts against an establishment that intends to leave it without a future. It is a common feature of mobilization processes on a global scale..
Also as in the previous Spring, in Algeria and Sudan social and economic demands are combined, with democratic demands against authoritarian regimes that had been entrenched in power for many years. Working youth want to live, and want to decide.
These traits are repeated in France, where the powerful Yellow Vest movement has been facing Macron's adjustment for months, defying police repression every Saturday in the streets of Paris and dozens of other cities. They started protesting against a fuel tax, that Macron already had to cancel, and extracted important concessions from the French government: minimum wage increase, freezing of rates and indexation of pensions under 2000 euros. But the protests do not stop, They demand that Macron leave. In their last “assembly of assemblies” the Yellow Vests called on the people to “adopt a position of breaking with the current system to create, together, a new social movement, ecological and popular”, and to fight for a “government of the people”, by the people and for the people”.
Working women have also been at the forefront of the global class struggle. The feminist wave that sweeps the world, It has the most radicalized women at its head, that give the movement a global questioning of the capitalist system. The international women's strike of this 8 March set new records with shares in 80 countries and high points with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets in Spain, Argentina and Chile.
The predominant element in the world mass movement is the rejection of the establishment, which leads to political polarization, opening space for the wingers on the left and right. Where the mobilized masses have found alternatives to the establishment on the left, have opted for these. But where there has not been, or where these alternatives have disappointed, for limiting themselves to a reformist program and ending up giving in to capitalist adjustment, the right has been able to advance.
Nevertheless, as the right does not offer a solution to the workers either, and it has not had the strength to crush them and impose the rhythm of exploitation that allows capitalism to recover its capacity for accumulation., also quickly finds its limitations. Because, Bolsonaro has not been able to implement any of the key measures of his program and is mired in a deep political crisis just over 100 days after assuming. That's why Trump is losing in the polls with the self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders. That's why Macri, in Argentina, has not been able to implement the fundamental reforms demanded by the IMF and also sees itself losing the next presidential elections.
There is a way out of the crisis for the working class. There are more than enough resources and wealth in the world to satisfy the needs and desires of the vast majority.. But we must take them away from the handful of capitalists who accumulate them, and to tear them off, we must remove them from power. The weight in numbers of the 99% who lives from his work and the strength of that mobilized power is constantly evident. This May 1st has to be, around the world, a new manifestation of the power of the working class, with mobilizations and events in each country.
But to defeat capitalist imperialism, This power requires a leadership with an anti-capitalist and revolutionary program and strategy.. That does not promise impossible solutions within a reformed capitalism, but instead proposes directing the strength of the mobilized working class against the entire system and going for everything. Let him fight for a socialist world in which the working majorities govern democratically..
Because, the organizations that make up Anticapitalistas en Red together with the colleagues of the SEP (Turkey) and from several other countries we are heading to take an important step in the construction of a new international political tool, socialist and revolutionary, that will have its first activity, foundational, of the 24 al 26 May in Barcelona.
Anticapitalist Network
reproduced from Anticapitalist Network | 29.4.2019
