A contribution of the IWW Innsbruck<\/p>\n
Repression against union work? Imprisonment of trade unionists?
\nWe know that in Austria, if at all, as historical anecdotes.
\nEverything seems peacefully structured. There are forms and guidelines for everything – including strikes and labour disputes. And it goes like:
\nPlease tell the works council. They seek the permission from the \u00d6GB. Which, in turn, often refuses to go as far as they could, especially when the SP\u00d6 is part of the government.
\nAnd if this all is through, then please seek for a date which is convenient for the industry. Maybe in times of the annual trials for the collective agreement? That’s a momentum where the industry is expecting it \ud83d\ude09
\nThere is already a massive repressive momentum in conducting labour struggles this way – which is just not visible at first glance.
\nThe “pacified class war”, as especially SP\u00d6 and \u00d6VP like to call it. The by them so-called “Burgfrieden” (“Castle Peace”)…No way!
\nThe years of Austro-fascism, Nazi-fascism and war in the 1930’s and 1940’s, have crushed a militant workers movement! Seventy years of social partnership have made the sustainable reconstruction of such a movement enormously difficult and repeatedly destroyed it. The annual trials for the collective aggreements should convey us that there are common interrests between the employing and the working class. But labour struggle is and remains class war! And this is not negotiable at round tables.
\nThat is why we as IWW have been building up structures in Austria for almost ten years now.
\nAs for the working class, class war is not once a year in the trials for the collective aggreements. For the working class – Class War is every fucking day! And it is not only related to the workplace. Which is why our understanding of an organization of the workers, naturally goes beyond the reality of the workplace.
\nThe trade union is us! The working class! Not the paid civil servants. They are henchmen of the opressive capitalist system!
\nAnd this is why it is important to address today – on the international day of political prisoners:
\nBeing imprisoned for detention prior to depertation. Being imprisoned because you can not pay fines and administrative penalties. Being caught between several jobs that give you just enough money to live, and the care-work at home. Being trapped between authorities, shuffling responsibilities back and forth until you’re exhausted and burned-out, desperately fragmented. Being trapped in prison-like, isolated so-called “return centers”. Where you get forced daily to “go back to your country”, because you can not be legally deported.
\nThis is the daily reality of the working class in Austria!
\nThat’s why we are here today! In solidarity with all prisoners of the working class! In Austria and worldwide!
\nWhether in the Philippines, India, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Palestine, Syria, Armenia, Kurdistan, Diyarbakir, Turkey, Russia, the EU, Albania, Morocco, Algeria, Nigeria, Congo, Chad, Sudan, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Mexico, Chiapas, Haiti, Guantanamo, the USA.Solidarity can only be our strongest weapon if it does not demand something in return.
\nWhen it crosses industrial, nation-state and cultural boundaries.
\nIf we have a class consciousness.
\nSolidarity forever!
\nWe are not all – the prisoners are missing!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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