Spanish State - January 15, 2022

From Cádiz to Madrid, Zaragoza, Puertollano, etc…

ENORMOUS SOLIDARITY WITH THE REPRESSED WORKERS FROM THE METAL STRUGGLE

You will never be alone again! The same class, one single fight!

The Cadiz working class conquers the unity of combative trade unionism...

We must coordinate the workers' struggles and defeat the union bureaucracy that divides us and sells out our gains

 Around a thousand workers left from the Cadiz Shipyards to the Government Subdelegation, to denounce that we are not criminals, we are the precarious Cadiz working class that fights for our rights and we will not allow us or those who  supported the metal struggle to be imprisoned.

The alleged “most progressive government  in history", the PSOE-PCE-PODEMOS stock used all their available means to prevent us the metal workers from getting victory, and our struggle from spreading to the entire state. Their Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz of the Spanish CP (PCE), has acted and continue acting as the employer's minister (CEOE), while the CCOO and the UGT signed an agreement behind the backs of the workers. On the other hand, under the orders of the Monarchy and the government, the Minister of the Interior Marlaska first sent the police with their rubber bullets and gases, and then with a tank to repress the heroic metal strike. Justice ordered house-to-house persecution and arrest of fighters who had participated in the fight.

Despite everything, this January 15, even in spite of the fact that in Cádiz they had put up police checkpoints and the civil guard with submachine guns, thousands of us took to the streets behind the banner “Against repression, the people respond” to support the workers repressed for the metal struggle.  Another sector of us, comrades who arrived from Seville, the Basque Country, Córdoba, Madrid, Catalonia, etc., also participated.

At the end of the demonstration, various trade union and political organizations intervened to express their solidarity. From the Combative and Class Block we intervened to denounce the persecution of the working class throughout the state, we announced the demonstration that was going to take place in Vallekas, we also proposed from the Solidaridad Obrera union that the class solidarity that came from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, etc., is because the working class knows that the Cadiz metal struggle is the struggle of the entire working class.

Jesús Galván of the CTM Coordinator of Metal Workers closed the demonstration stating that "Cadiz is not going to be stopped even if they send more tanks or the entire army, because we have been an example and fear has changed sides. If the working class of the world stops, the world stops" and ended saying that we workers know that if we don't take to the streets we cannot preserve our rights.

In Madrid the same afternoon, around a thousand of us went out to walk along the streets of the working-class neighborhood of Vallekas, behind the banner of the Combative and Class Bloc that read: "STOP the repression against the workers' struggle." A mobilization that united different militant unions and left-wing organizations to denounce the persecution of the struggles of workers throughout the Spanish State, in solidarity with the repressed workers of Cádiz and against the Labor Reform that legalizes precariousness for the working class, while it maintains cheap layoffs and EREs and ERTEs for the benefit of employers.

Unfortunately, Anticapitalistas was not at the Madrid demonstration. They did not want to convene the combative trade unionism. After having been one of the main "left" supporters of Podemos, they have broken with them  very quietly, while keeping a MEP in the European Parliament in that den of Maastricht bandits.

On the other hand, Izquierda Revolucionaria - The Militant, although they now deny it, just a few months ago campaigned for Pablo Iglesias in the elections of the community of Madrid, sowing hope in that party of the regime, whose former leader, is dedicated now to give courses in leadership to CEOE employers.

Today more than ever we need a unified struggle to advance in defeating the union bureaucracy of the CCOO and UGT, which with they Moncloa Pacts with the Monarchy and the regime, have done nothing more than betray the struggle of the working class one by one. .

The Cádiz metal struggle has shown that we need a unified fight for:

● Unconditional freedom for the imprisoned comrades in Cádiz and for all the political prisoners of the Spanish government and the monarchy
● Enough of repression and persecution against the fighters of the working class
● Repeal the Gag Law
● Enough job insecurity, equal pay for equal work
● For a decent living wage/salary
● Stop super-exploiting the migrant working class
● Out with the banks and transnationals that enrich themselves with the exploitation of the workers in the Spanish state and with the looting of the oppressed peoples
● Down with the labor reforms of the PSOE, PP, PCE and Unidas Podemos.