The Workers' Striving for Empowerment Will Secure Their Future
- Anna Di Carlo -
 
During this coronavirus pandemic, the workers and
oppressed peoples all over the world are reeling under the weight of
the profound crisis of the monopoly capitalist system and the dictate
of the international financial oligarchy and its oligopolies which
dominate all sectors of the economy. Their only concern about society
is their pursuit of maximum profit, no matter what gets auctioned off
or who and what get destroyed. Governments use the full weight of the
state, its agencies and revenues to meet the demands of the monopolies
and financiers.
Now, once again in the name of rescuing the
economy, their slogan is that We are all in this together and Helping
each other is the Canadian Way. The "we" is presumably the Team Canada
Justin Trudeau endlessly refers to, picking up the slogan of his
predecessor Jean Chrétien. It is shameful that in the
aftermath of what Jean Chrétien did to sell out the country
in the name of Team Canada, Justin Trudeau promotes this as the way "to
win," to "come out on top."
 His
is not the definition of winning Canadians espouse. Far from it, every
day reveals the consequences of the damage their so-called Team Canada
Canadian Way has caused for society. It is not for
nothing that
Jean Chrétien also called for getting back to "business as
usual" following the defeat of the Charlottetown Accord when Canadians
demanded their own empowerment and an end to the old way of doing
things. Because of this "business as usual" approach, the workers are
facing massive economic insecurity, unemployment and the denial and
negation of their rights.
The cutbacks to social programs in the name of
high ideals have made life increasingly untenable for years but,
despite this, the only claims on society which governments at both the
federal and provincial levels have recognized are those of the
speculators and money lenders. When it comes to the claims of the
working people, every bogus excuse is given as to why recognizing them
is not possible."
It is truly criminal to use the power of the state
and its institutions to deny what belongs to the working class and
people by right.
Even in the conditions of pandemic, the financial
oligarchs, oligopolies and imperialist countries and states in their
service pursue their private interests. Rule of law at home and abroad
lies in tatters because anarchy has been raised to authority with
devastating consequences. Governments simply remove any barriers in the
way of private interests. They are even perpetrating the fraud that
parliaments are in charge of decision-making while the cartel political
parties vie with one another and give themselves accolades for
allegedly genuinely caring for the people and holding governments to
account.
Workers must intensify their movement to empower
themselves, not divide behind disinformation that the Parliament,
virtual or not, will hold governments to account as if this or that
faction of the rich is any better that the other.
 Working people
cannot afford to stay in the trap of "left" versus "right." What exists
is a cartel party system within anachronistic liberal democratic
institutions over which the people exercise no control whatsoever. The
independence of organizing, thinking and actions of the workers'
opposition becomes a bulwark against the disastrous approach of
constantly responding to and following the agenda of the financial
oligarchy and its so-called right-wing and left-wing cartel political
parties.
It is the stand of the workers to defend their
rights in practice to the wages and working conditions they require
which opens up prospects for a bright future. Without this, life is
grim; the future is bleak. Across the country and internationally, let
us step up the work to uphold the dignity of labour by opposing the
dangers facing humanity, which are made worse by the rule of the rich
who are a blight on society, a burden it cannot afford to carry any
longer.
The striving for empowerment that working people
are embracing in the present reality will secure their future. Working
people can turn things around by refusing the agenda set by the ruling
elite and speak directly to those matters that concern themselves.
Discussing and working out how to resolve the economic, political,
social and environmental problems in ways that favour working people
and not the rich is what makes a difference. By engaging in actions
with analysis to establish and strengthen independent institutions
based on the fight to defend the rights of all is the work for
political renewal. This is what will bring in the New.
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 14 - April 25, 2020
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The Workers' Striving for Empowerment Will Secure Their Future - Anna Di Carlo
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