The Unbridled Savagery of German Capitalists on the Way Paved by Trade Unions

The German employers' association is preparing to sue the German government to force it to lower the budget allocated to Social Security.  According to the Deutsche Welle news agency, Dieter Hundt , the head of the German employers' association (BDA) told the Bild am Sonntag weekly that the organization would file the suit with the constitutional court in Karlsruhe by the end of August if there was no decision by the government to cut Social Security contributions.  A worker is entitled to Social Security when unemployed after having worked and contributed for at least 12 months.  This is paid jointly by both the employees and employers; for the employees the cost is 6.5% before tax. 

The 21st century is a disgusting comedification of the tragedy of the exploitation of labour power by capital.  The form of such a farce is different in different parts of the world.  In Iran, the tragic comedy is made up of the owed back wages to the workers even for one year.  The cheap labour power and the burdensome work as well as the disfranchisement of millions of hungry workers who have nothing along with the masses of hungry children is a painful reality that has brought this comedy to the stage.  In Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus, a fierce and criminal capitalist and a partner of the gigantic TelNordia Company, receives the Nobel Peace Prize from the hands of social democracy.  In Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, Africa, and other places the lives of human beings are being destroyed by the American and European dreadful armed troops in the name of Democracy.  In Germany, the capitalists plan to sue the government for not lowering Social Security.  The BDA has also said that they will go on strike if their demands are not met by the government!  Furthermore, probably the BDA would sack all the workers! Compared to this statement from the German capitalists, other anti-humane statements are nothing.  The bourgeoisie of Germany have been savagely sacking millions of workers and now want the government to slash their Social Security.  What the capitalists are doing around the world, whether in Iran, Bangladesh, Africa, East Asia, Latin America or in Germany, U.K. and U.S., demonstrates the true nature of capitalism. 

The question is what would workers do about this immense savagery?  What would the German workers do against the crime wave that capitalism is carrying out?  Why have these workers and their class fellow members in England, Holland, Italy withdrawn so much?  Where and when will this withdrawal end?  Is it not the time that the workers in Germany, France, and elsewhere in Europe return to their own class history and their movement?  These workers could not deny that their wages, education, health and social welfare are better and higher compared to the workers in Iran, India, and China; and all of these are a result of the struggles of many revolutionary workers proceeding from the Paris Commune, the First International, and the October Revolution.  These achievements are disappearing amid the storm of capital's brutality.  There is almost nothing left from all those great uprisings and revolutions.  The dreadful frozen cemetery of the trade union movement as well as its shameful disgrace of compromising with the wage-slavery system has reached to a point that the capitalists are about to take their own government to the court!  What audacity!  We must not endure such a black and catastrophic scenario.   Endurance of this shame by the working class of Germany is nothing but relinquishing with an appalling readiness to slaughter all of their achievements in the face of the wage-slavery system. 

Workers, Let's Get Organized Against Capital!

Coordinating Committee to Form Workers' Organization (Tehran Region)

June 3, 2008

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