All Out to Defeat the Kenney Government's Attacks on Working People and the Social Fabric!
Rally organized by the United Nurses of Alberta at the legislature in
Edmonton, November 20, 2019, against attacks of Kenney government.
In what many describe as military shock-and-awe
tactics,
the Kenney government in Alberta has launched a flurry of attacks
on working people and the social fabric of the province.
Declaring he has a so-called mandate to destroy social programs
and public services, fire public sector workers en masse,
steal the people's pensions, violate the right of working people
to negotiate their terms of employment and tear up already signed
collective agreements, Kenney's United Conservative cartel party
government is on a rampage.
 The working
people have demonstrated in practice their mettle
in refusing to accept these attacks as the new normal and have
organized a resistance movement that is growing by the day.
Workers refuse to accept the dictate of the financial oligarchy
and its political flunkies over those affairs that affect their
lives. The modern world cannot be governed in a one-sided manner
with the working class sidelined from having a say on the
important economic, political and social decisions that concern
and affect the people, nature and society. The consent of the
governed is required on all important matters. The people are
showing that they will not be idle when representatives of the
financial oligarchy trample on their rights and modern principles
and wreck what the people have built. The working people are
determined to solve in ways that favour them the economic,
political and social problems that have emerged with the
development of the modern productive forces.
Working people and the trade union movement are
not fooled
when Kenney attempts to divert their opposition towards false
targets he derides as "useful idiots" or to debate with him
events of long ago no matter how provocative he may become. The
events and personalities that matter are active in the present
and are judged through their actions in the here and now. Either
they stand with the people in defence of their rights and
well-being and their determination to build a better life or with
those such as Kenney who are trampling on the rights of all and
pushing society down into darkness.
Kenney and his reactionary ilk serving the
financial oligarchy
cannot turn the working people against themselves with straw men
because their thinking, interests, social consciousness and
organizations are in contradiction with his thinking, interests,
anti-social consciousness and organizations.
The more Kenney attacks working people, social
programs and
public services the more resistance the people will mount in
defence of their rights. In this battle, the more people defend
their rights the more they will develop their voice and plans for
democratic renewal, empowerment and a new pro-social direction
for the economy. The modern democratic personality of the people
emerges irresistibly as they take up the defence of their rights
and the rights of all.
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 30 - December 7, 2019
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All Out to Defeat the Kenney Government's Attacks on Working People and the Social Fabric!
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