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The Day After: 30-S
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Enrique Javier Díez Gutiérrez
professor teaching General Theory of Education University lion
The strike of 29 September is the beginning of labor and social mobilization to regain the rights of workers. All the great social achievements, without exception, that today characterize the companies consider more advanced and democratic (maximum hours, minimum wage, the right to social security, voting rights for women and non-discriminatory access labor market, abolition of slavery and the prohibition of child labor, safety standards at work ...) could be achieved only after protests, fights very hard and painful strikes. Were workers organized in unions who, after numerous strikes, sit-ins, demonstrations, including hunger strikes, managed to get each of the social gains brought about by the 37-hour week, decent wages, coverage in the event of unemployment, the negotiation of agreements collective social services, etc. All this is being dismantled, with incredible impunity at the hands of those who proclaimed themselves as defenders of the working class. And above, using the "sermon" that "is for our own good ', which is necessary to suffer now so that we reward in the future" paradise. " workers from other countries Europeans also are using the General Strike and the social movements continued to fight against neoliberal policies of the governments concerned, in Greece, there have been general strikes since June, September 7 there was a general strike in France against reform pension, which seeks to move the retirement age from 60 to 62 years. On September 29 were made days of protests and strikes across Europe. The struggle of the miners and the strike of 29 September must be the beginning of a process of striving for the reversal of such policies, to rescue democracy sequestration markets. After the 29-S can not now withdraw our just demands. Because if we give in on this, it opens the door to continue with more settings and cuts in pensions, health, education, social services, etc.
The social liberal PSOE has betrayed its electoral program, which came into office, giving the new neoliberal fundamentalism based on deregulation of labor markets, reduced social protection, reducing taxes (determinant of growth of public debt in these countries), increasing their return, the privatization of welfare state services, and reduction of labor and social benefits. With fanaticism fundamentalist himself a convert to the new faith neoliberal, Zapatero and his government is conducting the biggest cut of the social history of Spain, dismantling the little state of "Midwest" that we had, claiming that the crisis pay for those who do not we generated.
His policies have continued the work of PP, maximizing the benefits of the usual, ie by reducing the corporate income tax, eliminating the capital tax, etc.. Just replacing the estate tax would be the same as the pension cuts. Until the Commission has censured in a report regressive tax reforms undertaken in Spain since 1997 and origin largely from the huge deficit that we maintain today. These policies have led to actual as millions of people have lost their jobs and hundreds of thousands their homes, banks have earned 32,000 million euros between 2008 and 2009. At such injustice, the response from Zapatero insists his new faith: to impose further cuts to the working class.
face of this barbaric face neoliberal social liberal (for the PSOE has abandoned even the social democratic tradition), to end the crisis should affect the real causes that have provoked. Causes that call into question the entire social model. "We are facing a global crisis caused by capitalism, has no solution within the system "(WSF in Belem, Brazil, 2009).
why we must keep fighting and standing up to get out of this system. We'll have to do step by step: to strive to achieve a drastic reduction in working hours and job sharing paid to unemployment and layoffs. Instead of cutting social spending and labor (which affects the poorest and most unstable), to focus the response on the revenue side, a strongly progressive tax levied on capital gains, income and higher net worth (the sicav , where the rich shelter their fortunes, are taxed at 1%), and products luxury end to tax fraud (70 billion euros a year) and tax havens. We must fight for a public bank under social control that is part of essential public services such as education, health, housing and various forms of social protection. We must halt the privatization of the savings and promote participatory management and control of public resources. It is necessary to require a social and cooperative economy, geared to meet the needs of the people, not the pursuit of profit. An organization of domestic work and care that involves men and women equally, and where attention the unit has efficient public services. Responsible production and consumption compatible with the protection of the environment, biodiversity and respect for the limits of a planet exploited.
An unconditional universal basic income- "nothing to do with the simulacrum of the Junta de Castilla y León, which eliminates hunger and poverty and to ensure minimum standards of decent life for all citizens. A more real democracy at all levels, breaking the rule of the market, through citizen participation and democratic control of the economy and businesses.
Today is the first day of the continuation of our struggle because behind these reforms will be other (already announced the pension and health co-payment), because we are dismantling what little we had left welfare state, and because ultimately, we are staking the future of society we want.
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