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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 3:29 pm
#giletsjaunes: Unions, CGT come out of the confusion
What happened on December 6 at the union level illustrates a situation of confusion that in a way comes from far away.
explanations by the Class Front Union
First act
At the headquarters of the CFDT was held a meeting with the main leaders of 7 organizations: CFDT, CGT , FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, UNSA, and FSU.
To give birth to an appalling communique of submission, betraying all the militants are fighting on the ground since the communiqué resulting from this meeting:
condemns the violence that applies exclusively to yellow vests .
responds positively to the maneuvers of the Macronian power to enable it to get out of the situation in which it is cornered by the popular movement by emerging the old moon of the "social dialogue"
fact: Philippe Martinez General Secretary of the CGT has affixed the signature of his organization to this villainous text!
See the press release below.
second act
The attitude of the confederal leadership is immediately condemned by many activists and many structures of the CGT as the chemistry federation demanding the extraordinary meeting of the parliament of the CGT (the National Confederal Committee, CCN).
In order to have and debate and clarify the position of the organization on,
the struggle strategy and the mobilization process
the modes of decision-making and commitment of the CGT
See the release of the Federation of Chemistry below.
third act
Two hours later the CGT on its website issued a statement, correct that the opposite total of the joint statement intersyndical and screaming reactionary forces, Figaro in the lead, denouncing the double game of the CGT. *
And refuses to go to today's meeting with the Minister of Labor, Muriel Pénicaud, so as not to be let recover by the government.
See the press release below. We are here:
With regard to the CGT it is necessary to get out of the incoherence of a position that results from orientations taken in the 90s.
Because one can not at the same time subscribe to the orientation of a CFDT affirmed support of the Macronic policy of social reaction on all the line AND to organize the resistance to this policy, to build the necessary convergences.
And in our context with yellow vests, high school students, precarious to massively reduce the power and prevent the counter-reforms it provides as for pensions, unemployment compensation ...
In the 90s, to join the European Trade Union Confederation the direction of the CGT accepted the conditions imposed by its leaders and a Nicole Notat of the CFDT which consisted of accepting the rules of the capitalist market and its ruling class.
Rules confining the unions in the institutional role of controlling social conflicts in a " social dialogue " driven by the bosses and the power and which led only to defeats and the systematic questioning of ALL the conquests of the Release.
Unions, part of a global system of exploitation, oppression and social regression.
In part, this makes it possible to understand the rejection that the unions also face at a time when, in a diversified manner, it is the " system " itself that very many citizens are questioning.
As a source of hope and pride in the field, many activists, many grassroots union structures, local unions, federations, departmental unions are already engaged, seeking convergence with the current movement, working the deployment of struggles to the organization of strikes, to solidarity, denounce the repression and as in Marseille and the Var go to the rescue of high school students.
Here is the way and ONLY there, the path of victory for what we have been doing for years without success, and the possibility for the trade union movement to massively regain the support and support of the people!
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THE INTERSYNDICAL COMMUNIQUE
The trade unions CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, UNSA, and FSU met this Thursday, December 6 to discuss social news.
They recall that, for months, in the face of social and territorial inequalities, they have called for public policies allowing social justice. They also recall that, for months, they called on the government to listen to them through a real social dialogue.
Today, in a very degraded climate, the mobilization of yellow vests allowed the expression of a legitimate anger. The government, with much delay, has finally opened the doors of dialogue.
Our organizations will commit to it, each with its own demands and proposals, in common wherever possible. The subjects of purchasing power, wages, housing, transport, the presence and accessibility of public services, taxation must finally find concrete outlets, creating the social conditions for an effective ecological transition because that just.
Dialogue and listening must find their place in our country. This is why our organizations denounce all forms of violence in the expression of demands.
The CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, CFTC, UNSA, FSU call on the government to finally guarantee real negotiations. This implies that they are broad, open and transparent, both at the national level and in the territories.
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THE COMMUNIQU Ė OF THE CGT
The government plays the social arsonist: it's irresponsible!
The CGT is indignant and strongly condemns the attitude of the government, which responds by violence alone to the legitimate demands that are expressed differently throughout the country.
The youth is the victim of an unacceptable repression aimed at curbing the agglomeration of exasperations. High school students, who are mobilizing against social separation for university entry, who want means for education and have the right to hope for a future of progress, are the target of violent repression. The CGT can not accept that the power strikes and strikes our children, those of the Republic!
Governments and employers, who for years have been deaf to all social progress, who grab the wealth the workers create, are responsible for the desperation they are trying to make young people pay. The CGT has never advocated violent action. But violence is primarily social, it is urgent to increase the SMIC to 1800 euros, pensions, social minima, thaw point index. Urge to establish real tax justice that helps the richest, to develop public transport and housing policies that meet the needs of the population.
Responding to these emergencies is a prerequisite for starting a resolution of the current crisis. It is certainly not the invitation of Minister Pénicaud to trade unions and employers to discuss the method and schedule of implementations and decisions (but which?) Announced by the Prime Minister who can satisfy us. The CGT refuses any consultation. It now demands the immediate opening of negotiations on the social emergency. It confirms its call for workers to come together and decide on action in the workplace.
The CGT will not respond to this invitation. It will not be "recuperated" by the government trying to find national unity on the pretext of risk of violence during events and future actions. France's European champion of dividends to shareholders has the means to respond to the social emergency. The CGT is available, it has concrete and known proposals for everyone to have a job and that young people, active people, retirees live better today.
Montreuil, December 6, 2018
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THE COMMUNIQU Ė of the Federation of Chemistry
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History does not return the dishes
Class Front Union appeal to labor organizations and workers
Faced with the anti-popular power of Macron-EU-MEDEF,
history does not iron the dishes!
While the movement of yellow vests puts the government in great difficulty and has forced to first retreats, the trade union movement can no longer procrastinate.
Not only the yellow vests were able to create a balance of power as had not been known for a long time, using forms of struggle (renewable action, blocking the economy, national event in Paris) used sparingly in recent years not only is it the expression of the popular classes who participate and support it in an overwhelming way, but its evolution has put in the foreground slogans much closer to trade union demands than themes of the extreme right: refusal of a class taxation, requirement of an increase in the SMIC, pensions and social minima, the restoration of the ISF and more generally denunciation of a power of the oligarchy crushing by its policy and contempt the majority Population.
In reality, the movement of yellow vests, heir to the great popular movements of our country, expresses in its own way and with its forms of action the class confrontation germinated in our country for years (and already perceptible with the NO of class in the European constitution in 2005), opposing the ultra-privileged layers of large shareholders and wealthy CAC 40, their governments and their EU to all popular classes.
Of course, the oligarchy, in the tradition of the Versaillais, hopes to use the provocations it allows and staged as at the Arc de Triomphe and it counts dramatizing violence discredit the movement and as in 1968 rameuter the party of fear.
But the situation created by the unprecedented power of popular anger makes it possible to defeat power and open up a prospect of social change if one manages to combine popular revolt, demonstrations and mass strike to block capitalist profits.
Wages, jobs, pensions, public services, working conditions, mass unemployment, anti-popular taxation, privatization, health, education ... we are all attacked and in a situation to finally create a balance of power in our favor.
While high school students and students are also taking action against unfair reforms, it is from today that we should launch all the forces we have for the construction of a powerful general strike renewable. It can not be decreed, but it can be built very quickly. By filing strike notice renewals - like the one filed by the CGT civil service from 9 December - by immediately organizing interprofessional general meetings in all cities, reinforcing the convergences yellow vests and red anger which the popular movement needs to finally shake the power.
Time is not up for union meetings at the summit with a CFDT and a Laurent Berger discredited by their disgraceful support for Macronian power and their support for counter-reforms!
Yellow vests, red, white blouses, blue work ... right now, all together at the same time to impose social progress! All together to reinforce the current popular movement by the organized and decisive intervention of workers in struggle.
Front Syndical Class,
December 6, 2018
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The temptation of the oligarchy
It is in the show on the 5, " C in the air " daily vehicle of the dominant ideology and the interests of the macronie that one of the chroniclers, licensed publisher, Claude WEIL, with a sly smile evoked very recently the history of popular revolts.
And to say what?
Referring to the periods of popular intervention of the years, 1830, 1848, the Paris Commune in 1871 and 1968 concludes: these situations of confrontation between the people and the power in place always end with the victory of the party of the order.
So by a political victory and / or the bloody repression!
There is in this affirmation in the complexity and the diversity of the situations a statement in relation with the historical reality.
But that does not say anything about the methods used by the ruling classes to achieve this result and of which we can emphasize the recurrence ... and the actuality.
To stick to the more recent one there is a blatant paradox in what happened in 1968:
how the greatest mass movement of the twentieth century, the biggest workers' strike with occupation of factories, throwing in the action of millions of workers, parallel to undeniable strong social progress, finally ended on the political level by the overwhelming victory of the reactionary camp and the election of a room "blue horizon"?
Decisively, the massive rejection of Gaullist power ("10 years is enough") of the beginning of the movement has been transformed in a few weeks, probably not in support but in default support in the face of the refusal of the actual or fantasized disorder epoch as the "doglit".
And at the time, the right, standing up against the strikes and social conquests that strikes and occupations had inflicted on him, led his legislative campaign on an exclusive "program": restore order!
By making maximum use of the images of burned cars, material damage, street clashes ...
The parallel is not fake!
This morning Darmanin on France inter evokes for the demonstration next Saturday in Paris of thousands of people coming to kill.
While on the side of power and its supporters flourish accusations of factious, putschists and begins to rise the little music that there is more difference between the yellow thugs and vests, the Republic would be in danger ...
While O chance, in people arrested last Saturday at the Star there are only yellow vests and not a single breaker equipped yet from head to toe!
The provocation, the dramatization, the division of its adversaries the call to restore order have always been the ultimate weapon of the bourgeoisie when its class interests are threatened by the popular movement in open revolt.
This is why in the present situation nothing is more decisive than the unity around the objectives that emerge and susceptible of the widest gathering that can be summarized:
lower taxes
increase wages and pensions
restoration of public services
reform of institutions democratizing public life
At the union level, it is not the time for the alliance with a CFDT shameful support to Macron, ready to support its counter-reforms such as pensions or unemployment compensation and that the movement has already begun to neutralize !
The movement, the convergent struggles implicating the policy of breakage of Macron, the strikes must be deployed isolating the power for starting from the already imposed setbacks leading to a real victory of the popular movement.
By thwarting the traps set by a class that never abandons the fight to defend its privileges by any means!
https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/ar ... confusion/
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From what I've seen CGt's local chapters are livid about this betrayal. I had questions but do not now. The only question is whether this energy can be harnessed and not be misdirected.