24일 세계노총의 <6차 연금수급자 및 퇴직자를 위한 공동투쟁의날 보고>를 발표했다.
보고는 <코로나19 팬데믹은 여느 위기와 마찬가지로 자본주의의 고질적병폐인 경제적・사회적불평등을 부각했다. 세계인구의 소수를 차지하는 부르주아계급은 제국주의를 대표하며, 세계인구의 다수를 차지하는 민중은 제한적이고 부족한 사회보장에도 불구하고 비인간적인 조건에서 생존을 해야만한다.>고 지적했다.
이어서 <팬데믹은 노동조건악화, 부당해고, 임금삭감, 소상공인파산을 야기했으나 그어느것도 새로운것이 아니다>라며 <노인들은 팬데믹이전부터 생활을 영위했으나 가정・주거지・요양원에서의 학대, 무상의료비보장, 비참한 연금, 연금미지급과 같은 조건에 방치됐다>고 밝혔다.
계속해서 <노인들은 국가가 책임져야한다. 일생 얼마나 많은 시간을 노동하고, 얼마나 많은 임금을 받았는가를 떠나 노인이 삶을 영위할수 있는 조건을 보장받는것은 마땅한 일이다.>고 말했다.
결과적으로 <자각적인 노동자들, 한때 퇴직한 사람들, 즉 우리 노인들은 투쟁하기로 결정했다. 새세대를 훈련하고 새유형의 사회로 나아가기 위함이다.>고 강조했다.
보고는 아르헨티나, 브라질, 캐나다, 중앙아메리카, 콜롬비아, 키프러스, 스페인, 프랑스, 그리스, 인도, 멕시코, 바스크, 파나마, 러시아, 우르과이의 활동사진을 포함했다.
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! |