The Necessity to Organize as One Working Class
in Defence of
the Rights of All
Not a day goes by without Canadian workers being told
that
the economy is suffering from a shortage of available workers in
various sectors. This lack of available workers in the Canadian
labour market, we are told, could lead to a crisis in the
economy, a recession or worse. Workers are bombarded daily by
this propaganda. Several aims of the ruling elite can be
surmised.
 A key aim is to divert the
working class from analyzing the
causes of problems in the economy. An effort is made to deflect
attention away from the root cause stemming from the
contradiction between the socialized productive forces and their
private control. The ruling elite in control of the socialized
economy would never point fingers at themselves as the culprit
causing economic problems. Instead, their self-serving aim and
control compel them to turn problems against the human factor and
make those who sell to them their capacity to work bear the
consequences of the refusal of those in control to bring the
relations of production into conformity with the already
socialized productive forces. The actual producers, the working
class, must gain control of the socialized productive forces and
social product they produce if problems are to be resolved in
ways that serve the working people.
The disparate cartels of owners compete with one another
for
their own private interests and feel no compulsion to look at the
economy as a whole and plan production and distribution according
to the needs of the people and economy. They use problems to
their advantage in attacking the working class and also their
competitors. Whether a shortage or surplus of workers poses
itself as a problem, the working class suffers the consequence
because the well-being of the working people is not the aim of
the ruling elite.
Those in control view a temporary shortage of workers in
this
or that sector as an excuse to tap the global labour market for
migrant or temporary workers. The term "temporary" in itself
gives them an opening to deny those workers their rights under
the hoax that they are not full and equal members of the Canadian
polity once here and working. This creates a hierarchy of rights
where instead of all people having rights by virtue of being
human, certain people have only privileges, which can be denied
at the whim of those in control. This inequality and denial of
rights causes increased exploitation, in particular of migrant
and temporary foreign workers. This increased exploitation of
some has a negative effect on the entire working class, bringing
overall conditions down to a lower level.
In opposition, the working class sees rights as
indivisible and equal for all. The security and well-being of working
people lie in their organized fight to defend the rights of all.
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number
15 - April 27, 2019
Article Link:
The
Necessity to Organize as One Working Class in Defence of the Rights of
All
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