Some comments about the Spanish Telecom Workers on All-Out Strike

Jun 18, 2015

Some comments about the Spanish Telecom Workers on All-Out Strike

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We reproduce the introduction that the comrades of the Communist Workers Organization (group of the Internationalist Communist Tendency in Great Britain) have made to their translation into English of a report of an indefinite strike (Spanish Telecom Workers on All-Out Strike) in Spain in the telecom sector (teleafonica.blogspot.com.es). It is also published, in French, Chronique d’une grève illimitée, on the website of Robin Goodfellow. We side with the CWO (and Robin Goodfellow) in its support to the strikers in Spain (who, as everywhere in the world, suffer increasingly unsustainable conditions of exploitation) and its willingness to underline the political importance and significance of the kind of working class struggle in the present days: these struggles are a “ censored ” reality today at the international level. By reproducing this text, we first of all try to participate in the CWO fight to attempt “ to break the communications black-out on workers’ resistance ”.

We also globally agree with its denunciation of the unions whether they be “official ” (the great and “ old ” Trade Unions or “ Confederations ”) or whether they be more militant and minoritarian unions presented as “ rank and file unions ” or “ base unions ”. Actually, any unitarian mass organization, any organization of struggle (like unions of course but it goes the same with any assembly or strike committee which would survive to open struggle) cannot live on permanently without being inescapably absorbed and turned by the capitalist state of our time against the working class’s interests....

http://www.igcl.org/Some-comments-about-the-Spanish