Editorial 2

Against Wage-Labour

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:10:00

Against the Wage is a newsletter that originally we aimed to publish every 2 weeks, however due to our limitations, the newsletter will be published monthly. For the next several issues, interview with various worker-activists around the world are being arranged. Against the Wage is trying to open up a discussion among Communist-activists and against the wage labour system of the working class movement around the world. This is a step towards opening a much-needed study of the difficulties and barriers of the movement to achieve the unity, agreement and militancy of the internationalism of workers against the capitalist system. Against the Wage has arranged some interviews with a number of worker-activists and communists around the world with this goal in mind.

Workers Together

This issue contains two interviews. Mohsen Hakimi, a member of the ‘Coordinating Committee for xxx’ in Iran is being interviewed. Mohsen is a grassroots activist who expresses a practical, down-to-earth perspective and has practical experience with the working class movement in Iran. He provides a critique of the reformist tendencies -syndicalism and sectarianism - and their influences politically and economically among the working class and their demands. He also provides a rational commentary on the possibility of an American invasion to Iran. As Mohsen mentions, the possibility of the invasion is weak but with a new cycle of radicalism, the possibility of the 2 sides of the war turning against this new radicalism is a greater possibility.

P. Henriksson of Sweden is the second interview. He discusses his efforts as a communist at both the theoretical and practical level of organizing in Sweden. He also comments on the possibilities of the formation of councils for organizing.

Recently there have been a new series of protests in the Khurdish region of Iran. These began when the Iranian regime tortured, murdered and displayed the person’s body in public by parading it through the town for everyone to see. This action lead to many protests in several cities in the Khurdish region. The latest news form the ‘Committee’ was that five people were killed and many more injured in the city of Saquez during the protests. Currently many Khurdish cities are on general strike due to this severe and disgusting brutality. The Saquez people have taken to the streets in solidarity with the other cities. They occupied the city, took over government buildings and offices and faced retaliatory attacks by the government. Additionally, Mahmoud Salehi, one of the spokespersons for the ‘Committee’ was arrested by a special guard commander who asked him to be quiet and do nothing and then released one hour later. Mahmoud protested against these requests, and then, the same night, the workers’ grocery co-op was attacked and seriously damaged.

All of this cruelty and vicious violence and murder occurring in Khurdistan now must be condemned.

Against the Wage invites contributions from all workers. The sharing of ideas, experiences, both in organizing and in the workplace in general, will continually bring to fruition the goals and vision of Against the Wage.

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