The Workers' Movement in 2020
It Is Up to Us!
  
Unite to build the
defence organizations and independent voice
of the working class!
With this issue Workers' Forum
begins publishing in 2020. The year promises to be momentous for the
working class as many sections are in motion to defend what is theirs
by right. The realization that "It is up to us to defend our rights!"
has seized the imagination of many. Gone are the illusions that some
institutional force directed by the ruling elite and connected with
their state machine will defend workers' rights. "It is up to us!" to
build our defence and advocacy groups and voice of the present and for
a future fit for human beings. No one else will do it.
Our duty and social responsibility as workers
arise from the concrete conditions, human relations and problems as
they present themselves. No fudging of the conditions and relations we
face will do. No distortion of the tasks at hand is acceptable. The
working class is taking up its leading role in society by making
demands that provide society with a new pro-social aim and direction
for the economy, a force with the numbers, desire and resources to
defend its rights in the here and now.
 The ruling elite
of the financial oligarchy are a spent force at each other's throats
for power and constantly at war to build their global empires to seize
the social wealth workers produce. They see workers as a necessary
evil, a cost to their amassing of private wealth; they view workers as
things they can exploit, deprive of human rights and toss away as so
much scrap so the rich can live in luxury and privilege. The rich
oligarchs cannot solve any of the political, economic or social
problems confronting the people and country because they do not want to
do so. Real solutions would result in their loss of power and privilege
and the empowerment of working people. Real solutions demand the
recognition and defence of the rights of all and a new direction for
the economy to meet the needs and well-being of the people and to
humanize the social and natural environment.
The destruction and closure of production
facilities such as GM in Oshawa and throughout the forest industry,
Lowe's seizure of RONA and subsequent shutting of stores, the recurring
economic crises and endless aggressive wars, the use of scientific
technique such as software apps, automated vehicles, contract work and
human trafficking to force workers into precarious employment and
deprive them of their rights are all unacceptable and must cease.
Workers are the essential human factor in the economy and the producers
of all social wealth; they must set the aim of the economy to guarantee
their well-being and security. The economy is our economy and the
workers must have a voice, a say and control over its aim and direction.
Workers' Forum is more than the
voice of the working class to break the silence on the living and
working conditions of the working people; Workers' Forum
is an organizing tool, a forum around which workers and their allies
can inform others of their actions with analysis to defend their
rights, to meet and engage in discussions to sum up their activities,
to find their bearings, draw warranted conclusions and plan and
organize their coming activities.
It is up to us to build and disseminate Workers'
Forum, to write articles and reports of what the working
class is facing and doing, to gain subscriptions and financial
contributions and make Workers' Forum a powerful
organizing tool for the working class.
It is up to us to make 2020 a year of momentous
change towards empowerment of the working class!
This article was published in
Number 1 - January 15, 2020
Article Link:
The Workers' Movement in 2020: It Is Up to Us!
Website: www.cpcml.ca
Email: editor@cpcml.ca
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