againstwage

Please find our recently updated website with several new articles.

Many of these articles highlight current working struggles around the world. Among these articles include updates from:

· the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane workers strike and solidarity-building in Iran which is currently continuing

· the South African Transport Union's refusal to unload weapons for Zimbabwe highlights the alignment of the union with a particular sector of the bourgeoisie

· a recent Nurse's strike in Sweden which ended after 40 days due to the interference by their union

· an oil workers strike in Trinidad for safer working conditions

· Vietnamese Shoe workers striking for higher pay in a situation of high inflation and rising food costs

· the self-management of a bike factory in Germany which lasted for 115 days

· the German employer's association suing the government in order to reduce the Social Security for the people

· a Toronto Transit Commission strike rejecting a recent union-negotiated deal with management

· the development of a Worker's Council in Norway outside of the Trade Union model

· Egyptian and Swazi Textile workers striking for better pay in order to survive the increasing inflation

· World Cup 2010 construction workers striking for better pay in South Africa

· Hyundai wildcat strike in Korea

· Update to the imprisonment of worker-activist Mahmoud Salehi in Iran

· Strike by millions of workers in Greece

· And the failed Iraq war, a brutal example of the American bourgeois's role in the struggle between global capitalist poles
The main thread linking all of these articles demonstrates the amount of worker struggles around the world and with unionism these struggles cannot succeed and even with the history of unionism demonstrates the same. Workers must flex their might with their own power – to demonstrate this it can happen with factory take-overs, self-management of the workplaces. There is the absolute and utter uselessness of Trade Unions to play a role in a true worker's movement; they are not anti-capitalist nor will unions ever be. It must be understood that these current worker struggles are fights against the symptoms of the issues and must not be exclusively this; that the workers must engage themselves to understand the cause of the illness of our society and fight against the cause in order to change the social relation to production. The constant withdrawal and deterioration of the situation of the workers must end. Therefore the fight must not include only immediate demands but also embrace a struggle outside of the current union model against the bosses which is the fight against and ultimate abolish the wages system.
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