21일 세계노총은 <유엔으로부터 투쟁으로 쟁취한 국제기초노령연금수급자의 날은 10월1일이다>라고 보도했다.
보도는 <모든 위기가 그렇듯 세계보건위기는 구조적, 체계적으로 명백히 자본주의에 의한 경제적이고 사회적인 현안들을 부각한다>라며 <세계보건위기는 노동조건악화, 부당해고, 임금삭감, 자영업파산과 같은 문제들의 심화를 의미한다. 이문제들은 전혀 새로운 문제들이 아니며 세계보건위기에 의해 논쟁의 장에 올랐을 뿐이다.>고 말했다.
이어서 <세계보건위기 이전에도 존재해온 기초노령연금수급대상자들은 가정, 주거지, 요양원등에서 벌어지는 학대, 무상의료로부터의 소외의 상황에 처하거나 기초노령연금에서 제외되기도 한다>라며 <이것은 노인들이 무면허・무허가사영펀드에 퇴직후 가입하는 이유가 된다. 그리하여 평생 노동자로서 자본에 약탈당하던 이들이 퇴직자가 된 후에도 사영은행들로부터 강도를 당한다.>고 지적했다.
그러면서 <이론적 수단을 마련해주며, 새세대를 교양하고, 현재의 시스템이 자본에 의한 노동력의 착취에 근간하고 있다는 이해 아래에서 사회를 새롭고 완전히 다른 형태의 사회로 이행하도록 하는 것은 양심적인 노동자이자 싸움을 각오한 퇴직자로서 노인들에게 주어진 임무이다>라고 호소했다.
끝으로 <국제기초노령연금수급자의날은 퇴직자들의 유일한 국제대회로서 60개이상의 국가에서 다양한 단체들로부터 600명의 서명을 모았으며, 앞으로 더 많은 단체들이 함께할것이다>고 밝혔다.
다음은 전문이다.
| The elderly, whose date of remembrance for the United Nations and of our struggle, is the 1st of October, that last year we spent more or less at the height of the coronavirus pandemic and the current one we face at the height of vaccination, although only for some countries and some sectors of the population. The pandemic, like any crisis, only uncovered the pot, to highlight the economic and social scourges, which are inherent (structural and systemic) to the capitalist system, such as the great inequality, between a small group of the world bourgeoisie, of those who are representatives of the imperialist phase, and the vast majority of the world population, limited and lacking all basic services, which must survive in a high percentage of subhuman conditions. The pandemic has meant the worsening of working conditions, unjustified layoffs, wage cuts, the bankruptcy of small businesses, but none of this is new, only now the pandemic serves as an argument, the pandemic has become the front man of the capitalist system, because all the ills of the system are being put in the name of the pandemic. The conditions through which we, the elderly, have had to travel, existed since before the pandemic, the abuses in homes, residences, and nursing homes, the lack of free medical care and medicines, the misery pensions for retirees, the absence of pensions for the majority of the elderly people in the world, which go hand in hand with the illicit and corrupt enrichment of private retirement fund organizations; in the assault of the world’s private banks on the resources of those who gave their lives to enrich them, before when we were active workers they exploited us, now when we are retirees they steal from us. We older people are a responsibility of the State, beyond the fact that in the stage of our previous life we have worked more years or less years, with more or less remuneration, because to give us work and a decent remuneration, is also the responsibility of that State. Then every elderly person should have guaranteed conditions for a dignified life, like any human being. It has become clear, as without a pandemic, that some people and countries are more important than others, because, for example, the pharmaceutical transnationals hand in hand with the rich countries have crowded a few countries with vaccines until they have surpluses, while the poor countries have a dropper, or it does not reach them. It is simply imperialist behaviour at this stage of capitalist development. But it has also become clear that there is an ideological pandemic, which created in the laboratories of the bourgeoisie and imperialism, is lashing out at our peoples, with a variety of social democratic theories of class conciliation, which is aimed especially at workers, in order to make them believe that their situation of misery is negotiable, and that it can be fixed without fundamentally altering the capitalist system as such. They are even capable of questioning neoliberalism, to proposing supposed and non-existent variants of socialism, but without destroying the capitalist system. They are only proposing new economic strains of the same capitalist virus. Consequently, it is the task of the elderly, of those who were conscious workers, and of those who have once retired have decided to fight, to take up the theoretical tools of the class struggle, to train the new generations, in the understanding of what the current system based on the exploitation of the labor force by capital, to arrive at the need to move towards a new type of society, of a totally different society, more humane and without exploitation. As the world’s only organization of retired persons, we have collected more than 600 signatures from various organizations in more than 60 countries, to the Open Letter that we announced at the ILO on the 14th of June. There are more and more organizations that join our fight, and with all of them we are going to make a GREAT DAY ON OCTOBER 1. All kinds of activities (demonstrations, rallies, assemblies, various events, delivery of documents, etc., adapted to each reality) will surpass those that were already successful 5 previous World Days of Struggle of pensioners. The photographs, videos and documents that will capture this new Day will be the best demonstration that pensioners will help to end Capitalism, which is the great evil of Humanity. FOR A DIGNIFIED LIFE, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES! LONG LIVE THE SIXTH WORLD DAY OF STRUGGLE OF PENSIONERS! |