The Worker Movement and the fundamental Anti-capitalist Proclamation of Demands

It has indoctrinated the workers in a kind of class struggle in the situation of the bourgeois political power settlement. It is about arguing for reforming the capitalist civil and legal structure. It has indoctrinated the struggle against wage labour through the democracy, parliamentary, people state, proletarian dictatorship etcetera. They, the capitalists, told the worker masses that Communism and abolishing wage labour is not a living and ongoing movement but rather is a promised ideal from somewhere in history. These beliefs do not belong to the worker movement, rather all and each of them worse than the other, is representing a destructive presence of non-worker movements’ ideas and directions inside the process of the working class struggle. The struggles against exploitation, unjust attitudes, oppression, and capitalist crimes; as well as struggles against the foundation of the buying and selling relation of labour force are not part of the previous and later phases of the worker movement rather they are strongly attached together, every second, situation, step, and existence of this movement.   The separation of these phases is not occurring because of the development or growth of the class struggle rather it is an indication of the reformist dominance whether competent or not, armed or not, on the basis of the goals and aims of the worker movement.

The Socialist and Against wage-labour movement of the working class are not separate movements struggling and fighting against any kind of capitalist dominance over the realm of humans’ lives, or from their daily struggle to meet their current and working demands, or from fighting against the intervention of bourgeois government to restrict the political and social right of the citizens, or separate from the preparation of overturning the bourgeois political power. Any kind of separation of these struggles, either in the form of the right reformist syndicalism and social democrat, or in the form of the sectarian left reformist, is a clear capitalistic attempt to make the essence of the anti-capitalist and socialist working class hollow.   To shine a light on proletarian communism is to reject all of these. Fundamental anti-capitalist proclaimed demands are a daily platform of workers, at any level of the class-decorated forces and in any phase of maturity and development of the worker movement. The proletarian in this declaration will not leave their immediate ant-capitalist demands after overturning the capitalist state or after the revolution happens. At the same time with all its might, the reformist tries to restrict their demands. The general character of this proclamation is essentially anti-capitalist. For obvious reasons the element of the work process and the essence of the existence of the buying and selling of labour force is targeted. This is exactly the opposite of the right and left reformist perspective of the current and ongoing worker movement demands. The working class with its proclamation puts its finger in the heart of the issue and unifies the current demands with its goals, and attacks the essence as well as the relation of the selling and buying of the labour force. We elucidate this issue with an example. The struggle for the wage increase is always a working class concern. The wage issue and the argument for increasing the wage and adopting a particular way to proceed with this struggle from the standpoint of right reformist syndicalism is about legal issues which coincide with the production, civil, and political order of the capitalist. The militant left reformist also contains a hollow and harmless motto yet with a brilliant appearance of ‘overturning the political regime’. This militant left reformist issues a bunch of papers from their groups with respect to the legitimacy of the workers struggle and is in fact propagandising for their own group or party.

Our view, participation, goals, and work as anti-capitalist activists are essentially different from the above two tendencies. In this realm, the wage movement is a channel of consecutive ditches across the world’s front line of class struggle.   Anti-capitalist activists everywhere are against the low standard of living and the wage-labour system, and they routinely expose capital and its ‘process of work’, and the process of producing surplus value and the long passages of the reproduction of social capital. They open and show to the masses the accounts of labour and the gigantic social production in each period. They make this real subject consciousness as a real object consciousness of the working class.   The anti-capitalist activists, in the heart of the ongoing and current workers movement struggle, are exposing how the continuing transformation of values which have been produced by the capital-demanding allocation of the maximum products of labour and turned into the workers’ livelihood and their social welfare. The anti-capitalist activist exits from the wage-limit discourse and they clear a way to achieve this level of livelihood and welfare to be the context of the present labour struggle.

The anti-capitalist movement looks this way to all areas of the workers struggle with the capitalist system. The anti-capitalistic character of the worker movement is the starting point from which workers are organized - from direct council participation of workers in the process of class war, from harder, wider, and the dreadful pressure of the working class council movement, on production, civil, and socio-political order of the capitalist. In fighting for political emancipation and social rights, the highest bourgeois view of any rights is entirely a manifestation of restriction, and a deep form of existing political freedom is the crystallization of restriction, therefore, achieving any political emancipation and true humanistic social rights depends on the powerful and the most united pressure of worker council movement on the capitalist programming of the social order.   While organizing the masses selling their labour force to impose their daily demands on the bourgeois, it has continuously seen the anti-capitalist movement goal to abolish wage labour. In the axis of this struggle, the work process and the disruption of the reproduction of social capital, as well as the interruption of the process of exchanging labour product into capital, in a more consciously and organized way, and being able to mobilize more effectively and directly in all frontiers of capital and all its realms of social life puts more pressure on the capitalist for the demands.

The anti-capitalist movement joins with the daily workers struggle with the reachable objective of abolishing capitalism and replacing it with council organization of masses for work planning and social production. The social and class characteristic of this movement struggles against any injustice, exploitation and double oppression on womyn, any sexual and racial discrimination, lack of housing, displacement, child labour, environmental destruction, etcetera, is an organic and connected chain that not only fights for these demands but also is a struggle against the essence of capitalism which is wage-slavery. The fundamental anti-capitalist proclamation of demands is a departure point of the labour movement from the present objective of the work process and its depth and intensity of the exploitation of the working class in this process. This proclamation is illustrative of the unlimited oppression and the lack of rights of the worker masses in the regulation of civil and political order of the capitalist which is based on the relation of the buying and selling of labour power. This proclamation simultaneous is an assertion of livelihood and welfare demands proportional to the existing level of production and social work for all in society. This proclamation is the workers’ indictment against the process of the production of capital – is the labour movement dissent manifesto against the basis and capitalistic container of civil rights and political emancipation of all citizens. This proclamation is calling for organizing and the concentration of our class force for imposing the highest level of our daily demands on the bourgeoisie and using this daily fight back of the labour movement for ultimately abolishing the entire capitalist system.

The context of this proclamation would be altered based on the form of our class force in society or internationally, but the long range view of the anti-capitalist at all levels of class struggle stays constant. The fundamental proclamation of workers and its battle for viability is precisely from a concrete level of this movement for abolishing wage-slavery. It is not sufficient for the proletariat to impose these demands on the bourgeois; the proletariat at the same time has a clear and feasible socialist plan for work and social production in the current situation.   The proletariat, ditch by ditch, in every corner of its battle with the capitalist demonstrates objectively, civilly, mathematically, economically and socio-politically all its power for the socialist planning of work and production and maintaining during this struggle to put end to wage slavery. Nevertheless, this proclamation is the daily demands of the proletariat of each separate country against the bourgeois class and capitalist state but in its own essence and particularly in this current historic situation internationally is the most vital and important necessity. In the period of absolute wage-slavery the system rules in every humans’ lives, in a situation of hegemony of the capitalist system and its aggravated progression of all miseries and the depth of dismissal of worker masses from the work process and from the fate of work and production as well as their own social products where there is the gigantic level of production. Enormous capital and wealth is generated, alongside immense poverty and wretchedness for the worker masses. When there are actual material, technological and economic facilities existing in our world, which make it absolutely feasible for a socialist world there can be complete well-being, equality, and freedom. Therefore, in this situation having a common fundamental proclamation from the working class internationally with the aim to opening the front line battle everywhere is the most vital, important requirement than before.

There is a necessity and an importance in drafting this proclamation. However, our readiness for mobilizing the working class around the world is weak. This is a very bitter and dark truth for anti-capitalist activists, but our perception is that by drafting this proclamation: there is a foundation break and attempt for organizing the anti-capitalist movement and its starting point for going toward the unity of worker masses internationally. The fundamental anti-capitalist proclamation of demands is an active attempt of the worker movement in every society to impose the highest level of our daily current demands on the bourgeoisie and use this daily fight of the labour movement for ultimately abolishing the entire capitalist system. With direct participation by the mass worker, this proclamation forms the basis of militancy and unity of the international workers and by the worker representatives. This task must start from some point on the part of the workers suggestion. What you are reading below is solely an attempt to sketch this (these) suggestion(s) with worker-communist activists of anti-capitalism in the world. From our point of view, the general framework of this proclamation in this moment and with our current strengths and class composition we could make these demands:
1.      The unconditional freedom to form council organizations and anti-capitalist mass worker in every corner of the world, the prohibition of any government or bourgeois class intervention in the process of the formation of organized or any kind of working class organization.
2.      The determination of the livelihood and social welfare level based on the maximum allocation of work product and social production for human public welfare and life expenditure, and the determination of this livelihood and welfare for worker masses every where in the world by reducing the global capital amount of profit.
3.      The direct and sufficient intervention of the anti-capitalist working class council movement to set the level of livelihood and welfare of citizens.
4.      The expelling of health utilities, medication and treatment, education, housing, daycares, nursing homes from the domination of money exchanges; the guarantee that all utilities be free for all workers masses.
5.      The allocation of a high and free standard of living, social welfare for all workers employed or unemployed, man, womyn, independent of age, gender, ethnicity, race, residence or any other.
6.      The direct and necessary intervention of mass worker council organization with the work process whether being produced or not, and the determination of any kind of work and production and the circumstance of distribution of the social labour product.
7.      The guarantee of a healthy environment for all citizens, and the intervention of worker council organizations for social and work planning and the prevention of all industrial contamination and damage to the environment.
8.      The prohibition of the intervention of governments for restricting any political freedom of citizens.
9.      The elimination of sexual discrimination and the double oppression on womyn, putting an end to the economic dependency between womyn and man or the economic dependency of children on their parents for education, and the calculating of all hours in house as daily work.
10. The prohibition of the production of weapons and the international struggle against any kind of war and violence by global capital. The fundamental anti-capitalist proclamation of demands within this context and point of view and with the concentration of the proletarian force everywhere is about the daily struggle against exploitation and capitalist brutality.

Also, it is a struggle for overturning the bourgeoisie state and preparing for a socialist and worker revolution in every country and around the world. The material suggested in this proclamation is a step for banging out a discourse and agreement among anti-capitalist activists in different parts of the world; as well it is a beginning to achieve the international unity of working class in the course of the battle with capitalism. We, in our part, warmly shake our hands with these comrades for this unity.