Workers Struggle

The Covid 19 pandemic is exposing many underlying issues facing society right now as it has put stresses on jobs, healthcare, food supply chains, and housing.

Those who were lucky enough to keep a job this whole time have had to juggle with what to do with their children as they were forced to continue to work during an international pandemic. Those who were fired or furloughed were forced to juggle between rent and food even as the couple of rounds of added benefits kept expiring and are now being cut. You know what didn’t expire? Rent payments, bills, car payments, school loans, etc.

Being given two months notice of eviction during an international pandemic exemplifies the criminality of capitalism and the parasitic relations which are embodied within it (the landlord-tenant relation being just one of them). We cannot count on the “good hearts” of people caught in the role of these toxic social relations. Just as capitalists are concerned with capital, landlords are as well, in the form of rent and the capitalist courts are on their side! It’s deeper than just a law or policy, it’s a societal question. The private ownership of land - and anything on it - is an integral pillar of how capitalism organizes society in its interests to ensure its continued rule. Everything functions as a business and we need a world based on the interests of the working masses of humanity, not the parasitic capitalist class, check out our new article, hit us up if you agree!

Capitalists Rake In Profits at Our Expense! — WorkersStruggle The Covid 19 pandemic is showing us many underlying issues facing society right now as it has put stresses on jobs, healthcare, food supply chains, and housing.

Excited for the film screening, SEE YA TOMORROW!

Fellow workers and laborers, Get ready for International Workers’ Day with this MAY DAY’S EVE ONLINE FILM SCREENING and INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSION!

APRIL 30TH 6 PM
RVSP HERE: tinyurl.com/WSBatayLa

We invite you to a screening of the documentary—Batay La—shot about our brothers and sisters in the combative and autonomous Haitian working class movement Batay Ouvriye (which also means “Workers Struggle”).

Batay Ouvriye is an example of workers’ organizations building autonomous combative structures and waging struggle against capital.

Workers Struggle is presenting this film on the night of April 30th because it is May Day’s Eve. We believe that May Day is always a time to build our autonomous organizations.

The political organization of the working class is more important than ever as the global pandemic rages on and capitalists increase their offensive against the working class. The workers in Batay Ouvriye are showing the world the least of what has to be done.

We workers and laborers must organize ourselves in all countries into combative movements, autonomous from any capitalist interests and structures, so that we can build our collective power to transform the world. No one else can see this task through, it’s our responsibility!

Joining us from Haiti will be Yannick Etienne. Yannick is a Batay Ouvriye organizer who narrates the film, and she will share her perspective on organizing and struggling against capitalism/imperialism, the importance of proletarian internationalism, the need for a combative autonomous working class movement, building some badass unions and more (followed by a Q&A session). Our presentations will be recorded but not the q&a portions.

There will also be a discussion on Proletarian Internationalism and need to for our class to organize here, in the belly of the beast.

Well will be sharing a GoFundMe link in the days to come to raise money for the workers in BO towards their organizing efforts. Donations are not required to participate but are encouraged. See ya then!