INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY OF THE UNION OF PENSIONERS AND RETIREES OF THE WORLD FEDERATION TRADE UNION WITH THE FRENCH WORKING CLASS

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY OF THE UNION OF PENSIONERS

AND RETIREES OF THE WORLD FEDERATION TRADE UNION

WITH THE FRENCH WORKING CLASS

 

From the TUI of Pensioners and Retirees of the World Trade Union Federation we want to express our deep and total condemn on the hideous attacks performed in Paris last Friday.

We also want to express our solidarity with the victims and their families, as well as with the French working class and people.

These criminal actions are a new episode in the World scenario of violence brought by international imperialism in its will to take over the planet´s resources.

With this aim it uses war, as did the colonizers hundreds of years ago. It is the same criminal aim (once again disguised in theoretically noble principles) with the same objectives, to take all useful resources from the peoples just to give them away to those who hold power on an anti-democratic basis.

First and Second World Wars (the latter known by some of our most veteran TUI´s leaders) were also useful for capitalism in order to re-organize its control over world´s economy.

Those who suffer the outcome and consequences of all wars are the people and the working class.

As an immediate answer, France´s President, Hollande, a social-democratic and imperialist leader, has increased again the bombings over the Syrian people (something that the French government he has been doing for the last five years). With this movement, imperialism has taken a step forward that could pave the way to the Third World War. An unequal war in which some uses conventional armies while others wage a resistance movement through guerrilla warfare as it did in the past. Once again, as it happened many times before, religious are being used to fanatize the so called “warriors”.
First and Second World Wars (the latter known by some of our most veteran TUI´s leaders) were also useful for capitalism in order to re-organize its control over world´s economy.

Neither of them defends the people´s and working class´ will that want and need peace. A peace without exploited and exploiters. A peace that will be possible only when we put an end to capitalism and its armed force: the imperialist NATO.

It is also clear that all of these episodes will be used by the bourgeoisie, as ruling class in most of the countries, to take further steps in its aim to strengthen its dictatorial and neo fascist ways used to gain a bigger control over the working class that, in spite of all, will take them out of power. 

In recent years American and European imperialists governments, and especially the French government itself, have been given financial and military support to the reactionary, Islamic forces in an attempt to bring a new balance on the situation in North Africa and the Middle East, so they can put in power friendly governments to ensure the taking of region´s riches and resources. Gas and petrol recently discovered in Syria are the reason behind its interest in this country.

Consequences of this and other imperialist aggressions can be seen every day: thousands of dead in Syria and other countries; factories, infrastructures and hospitals destroyed by the NATO (as it was recently the case with the Doctors without Border´s hospital in Afghanistan); and thousands of refugees that must face the unfair walls of Fortress Europe.

We want to make an appeal to the French working class, along with the International working class, not to let themselves be manipulated and deceived and not to act as accomplices to legitimate those behind this actions. This terrorist´s acts try to manipulate working class´ conscience in order to make them support new actions against their interest. Meanwhile, imperialist leaders design from its comfortable offices new wars. The peoples and the working class put the death toll and act as accomplices unless they are coordinated by anti-capitalist organizations.

Workers and peoples must advance in their struggle against imperialist wars and aggressions.

Working class and peoples must organize their daily struggle to end with capitalism as a first step to the disappearance of NATO and imperialism.

This is the only way so the peoples may regain sovereignty while the working class (the only one who produce richness) will be able to decide future and peaceful way for Humanity.

Barcelona (Spanish state), November 16th, 2015.

                        

 

 

Quim Boix

General Secretary of International of Trade Unions of Pensioners and Retirees of the World Trade Union Organization.

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