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Economic Nationalism Issue THE SPARK TROTSKYIST PLATFORM Issue 19 March 2017 cost of printing $5 T RO T SKYIS T PLA T FORM ISSUE 19 MARCH 2017 WORKERS OF ALL COLOURS AND COUNTRIES ARE KEY TO THE STRUGGLE FOR OUR RIGHTS SO The Melbourne suburb of Sunshine, June 2016: Workers at the Bitzer Let’s KNOCK DOWN THE OBSTACLES BLOCKING refrigeration firm on the picket line and on the verge of victory. After THE FULL FORCE OF THE UNITED WORKING CLASS a hard fought nine week strike workers won a pay rise, the guarantee of permanency for casuals after six months’ service and control over what hours they work. The Australian working class is very multiracial. Unity of oppose “AUSSIE FIRST” workers across racial and ethnic lines is key to victory in the class struggle. TROTSKYIST PLATFORM: PO BOX 1101, FAIRFIELD NSW 1860 ECONOMIC NATIONALISM PHONE: 0417 204 611 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: trotskyistplatform.com PROTECTIONISM & RACISM ARE POISON TO Workers’ rights Trotskyist Platform leaflet for International Women’s Day 2017 8 March 2017 Women Workers Key to Building a Working Class Fightback Smash the Cutback to Sunday Penalty Rates through Class Struggle Action International Women’s Day 2017 comes at a time of heightened attacks on women - especially working class women. That is not only because a hard-core misogynist and racist, Donald Trump, has become the president of the most powerful country in the world. Working class women in Australia have to cop lower wages than men. Unaffordable childcare restricts women’s full participation in economic and social life. Meanwhile, many low income single mothers continue to be ground down by the former Gillard ALP government’s cruel cut to the single parenting payment four years ago. As always, the fate of women’s rights goes hand in hand with workers’ rights and the rights of all the oppressed Russia, International Women’s Day, 1917: Mainly female textile workers go on strike for bread sparking a general strike and the toppling of the Tsar. The resulting revolutionary period that was opened up culminated half a year later in the October Socialist Revolution. The banner reads “Glory to the Women Fighters for Freedom!” including Aboriginal people, LGBTI people, coloured “ethnic” people However, women are not just victims of capitalism and will not simply and the unemployed. Alongside attacks on women’s social position, be a major beneficiary of socialism. Working class women, who have the we are seeing the right-wing Turnbull government attack our trade most to gain by ripping up this current system, will also be the key drivers unions – targeting especially the CFMEU construction workers union of the struggle to overthrow capitalism. The most powerful example of – and undercut weekend penalty rates for hundreds of thousands of this occurred on International Women’s Day in 1917 in Russia. It was low-paid workers. Meanwhile, all the current parliamentary parties – then that in the Russian capital of Petrograd tens of thousands of mainly Pauline Hanson’s fascistic One Nation, the Liberal/National coalition, women textile workers walked off the job to demand bread. Their struggle the Nick Xenophon Team, the ALP and The Greens – are all in various sparked off a general strike and a revolt against the tsarist monarchy. The way inciting poisonous nationalism that inevitably targets coloured migrant-derived communities by variously blaming refugees, guest resulting revolutionary period that was opened up culminated half a workers or overseas producers for the unemployment and insecurity year later in the October Socialist Revolution. Exactly one hundred years caused by the capitalist system itself. later and this struggle remains the shining path for the fight for women’s emancipation and for the liberation of the masses more generally. Women’s rights are so closely bound to the overall state of the class struggle between capitalist business owners and the working class Today, women workers alongside coloured “ethnic” and youth workers because women’s oppression is actually built on the foundations of class- are not only amongst the workers most targeted by the slashing of Sunday divided societies. Under capitalism’s social structure a large proportion penalty rates but are crucial to any fightback against this vicious attack. of women are denied economic independence. With women denied the opportunity to participate equally in economic and political life, male In February, the “Fair Work” Commission announced its despicable chauvinist attitudes are spawned that “justify” and perpetuate this reality. decision to slash Sunday penalty rates between 25% and 50% for hospitality, That is why we must fight for women’s full economic independence restaurant, fast food, retail and pharmacy workers. The decision also cuts through demanding jobs for all and for equal pay between men and these workers’ public holiday pay by up to 25%. This will mean a loss of women workers. We must also call for free abortion on demand and up to $6,000 per year for some workers. The Fair Work Commission’s freely available access to all forms of contraception. To allow women decision, done with the backing of the Turnbull government, will hurt the greatest chance to participate in economic life, we must fight for free some of the lowest paid workers in the country. Many of these workers 24-hour childcare, for free school lunches at all public schools and for are already on perilous incomes, not only because their pay rates are after-school sports, music and cultural activities provided for free by the low but because many are in insecure, casual jobs where they are forced state alongside free transport from school to these activities. All these to work less hours than they want to due to the bosses and the bosses’ demands, however, clash head on with the current system because the capitalist system making inadequate work available. The loss of penalty capitalists who control the economy are not going to want to sacrifice rates will thus mean a huge proportion of their income will be lost. For their profits to make these social programs and full employment possible. many of these workers, the loss of penalty rates could be the difference Thus, while we can make headway in women’s emancipation through between scraping enough to pay their rent and simply not being able to winning concessions through struggle under capitalism, we will only make ends meet. fully open the door to women’s complete liberation when the capitalist system is replaced by a socialist one. Thus far, the pro-ALP leaders of our trade unions have been relying on “The CFMEU stands ready to fight. petitions and parliament to oppose this cruel attack. However, we should “This war on battlers must end. not rely on a future ALP government to reverse the cuts. Although the “The war on the fair go must stop. ALP Opposition is now calling for the government to legislate against “Where the fightback takes place — wherever there is a picket, a rally, a the Fair Work Commission decision, before the election ALP leader campaign, whatever it is — you will see us there standing shoulder to shoulder Bill Shorten announced that a future ALP government would not try to with those under attack.” reverse a cut to penalty rates if the Fair Work commission ruled in favour of it. So, what exactly would the ALP do if it ended up being the current These statements now need to be followed by actual industrial action gang of politicians in government running the rich bosses’ state? What by the CFMEU and other unions to smash the attacks on penalty rates, we can expect from the openly anti-working class, Liberal-National pensions and welfare payments. government, of course, goes without saying! If we can defeat this attack on penalty rates through industrial and other What we need is the mobilisation of the power of the working class in mass action, the union movement will win thousands of new workers – mass action – especially including industrial action – to smash the attack especially younger workers – to joining our ranks. We will also become on the weekend and holiday pay of hospitality, restaurant, fast food, retail more united and confident to challenge other attacks that we face and pharmacy workers. This should not just be the task of the workers including the Liberals ABCC - as well as the anti-strike provisions of directly affected. This slashing of penalty rates is an attack on the entire Labor’s 2009 Fair Work Act - cuts to public housing and draconian cuts working class. If the bosses get away with it they will be targeting penalty to social welfare for the poor. and shift rates of other workers. Many of those targeted by the recent The Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision proves once again that attack toil in small workplaces where ruthless “small business owners” the industrial courts in Australia – like all the courts here – are are able to get away with bullying them. That is why we need workers not “independent umpires.” Rather, they form part of a capitalist state – in larger, more heavily unionised workplaces to also flex their industrial which includes also the police, the military, prisons and the bureaucracy muscle to help crush this attack on penalty rates. Such a mobilisation will – that was created and is maintained for enforcing the interests of the also help cement ties between different components of the working class. capitalist exploiting class over the working class. Even when the FWC, For example if militant construction workers and maritime workers on a rare occasion, makes a decision less harmful to workers’ interests unleashed their power behind the hospitality, restaurant, fast food, retail then that is not because of any inherent sense of justice in the system but and pharmacy workers targeted by this recent attack, they will likely see merely reflects those cases where workers have won the struggle on the more of these lower paid workers joining their picket lines when they ground in the industrial and political battlefield and the FWC is forced face impending full frontal attacks from the capitalist rulers.
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