The average production per capita and the production of labour is worth more than 20 thousand dollars among 52 counties in the world and the average income and social welfare of worker masses in the same countries has declined to $2500 annually. Meanwhile about 1.3 billion people around the world are eking out an existence on the equivalent of about one U.S. dollar a day. The depth of dismissal, disposal and exclusion of the working class as ‘inferior’ humans from the work process; the fate of work and its production; as well as the workers’ social product goes beyond human control.
The creation of for-profit production alongside the painful poverty, cruelty, and wretchedness for most human beings is capitalism. The immense profits of its production has created such a world that poverty, child labour, mass starvation, death from disease, global environmental devastation, war and all kinds of misery has become the standard of life in the world. The massive selling of labour around the world is an experience where workers’ lives are falling more and more into poverty, misery and disconnectedness from their social existence. This situation is absolutely intolerable.
During the last few years in Sweden the ‘welfare system’ and the numbers of beds in hospitals has been cut in half and at the same time the numbers of patients who suffer from the pressures of work has increased to large numbers. The massive accumulation of capital in the world during a decade has increased 223 percent alongside the stresses of hunger, lack of housing, lack of health care and education which have decreased enormously. The number of humans that are deprived of daily food, housing, clean water, medicine, doctors, health and education has surpassed 35 percent for the entire population of the world.
The workers movement during all of this period around the world has always been against this savage wage-slavery system. Despite of all these struggles no where was there any stop to this process of depth, ascendance and the dehumanizing of capital. All of these struggles demonstrate the devastating persistence of a dead end and a dreadful process. Trade unionism, right and left reformism, all derail the wheel of a class struggle from the track of direct action against wage-labour - the main reason or true mystery of all the defeated, sterility and exhaustion is derailing the wheel of the workers movement from the rail of direct action against the capitalist system onto the wheel of reformism and different forms of syndicalism and sectarianism.
Global capital with all its brutality not only attacks the working class needs in Iran, Middle East, and Africa not because of the absent of trade unions or the ILO, or ICFTU, but also attacks in Europe, North America under the umbrella of the powers of trade unions which force the workers into more misery. The trade union movement never has been the flag-man of this protest, but rather it was an ominous mediator for enduring this process of working conditions for workers all over the world. Gigantic monopolies of corporations in France, Germany, Sweden, England and elsewhere who are in the daily process of buying forced labour and exploiting workers hold the spectre of transferring the labour and production to somewhere else in the world over their heads. The trade unions not only have no objection to this condition rather they work as mediators for all this misery that is being endured by the working class. The large amount of unemployed workers in the different parts of Eastern Europe have to sell their labour equivalent to one dollar per hour to the large corporations and so suffer the stresses of poverty and hunger alongside the large trade unions.
The trade unionism movement is not any container for the struggle and protest against this brutality. During the last few years, brutal capitalist governments exploit more than 900 billion dollars of work and production from the hardship and suffering of workers around the world. This production is equivalent to the entire livelihood of 3 billion people who provide the arms for the mass destruction of human beings. The trade union never has been or can be opposed to this barbarian capitalism. On the other hand, political parties who are representing the working class are trying to place the working class into their own sect with their own proclamations. This does not work for the struggle. Not only do they not help to transfer the worker’s struggle from the reformist rail to an anti-capitalist rail, rather with their own sectarianism, support syndicalism.
The workers movement in this current rail struggle, in this rotten farm-work of reformism, in an abyss of disdain for the essence of wage-slavery, is not able to defend itself from all the attacks of capitalism. This movement internationally, and independent of some differences and differentiation of some sectors, has two choices to make. Either, the movement can endure all the pressure that is increasing every single moment from capitalism or wage a direct battle against capitalism - with the clear horizon of abolishing wage-labour and to end to wage-slavery.
The first way, is a way that capitalism is dreaming for all the working class in the world with the companion of trade union, to interpret the workers’ lives. The second way is the way to organize the anti-capitalist movement with the clear horizon of abolishing wage-labour - this way is the way of true communism – worker-activists against the wage-labour of the working class.
If the world is supposed to go in a different way, if it is supposed to stop to all misery, attacks, and brutality that are imposed by the capitalist system then we must choose the second way. This way is the road for all workers around the world, it is the road of communism, the road of the red workers internationalism. A charter plan of fundamental demands against capitalism for all workers around the world is fundamental for our new workers organization every where and it is a place of meeting for the internationally unity for all workers around the world. Lets join hands, in the work place, in the factories, schools, farms, hospitals, streets, cities, every where, discuss this charter and turn the results of our conversations into an objective practice struggle. We are living in such a world that the presence of viable means already exists in our world - economics, science and technology, which make it feasible for a world where there is complete well-being, equality, and freedom. Let’s organize our forces all over the world and bring it to the street our massive forces to end wage-slavery. Let’s be united all over the world to end all the misery that has been imposed to us and to our children. Let’s develop our own struggle against capitalism until wage-slavery is abolished by gaining political power with the strength of our organized worker’s movement.
