Russian invasion in Ukraine - March 2023
Correspondent
"In the occupied Sea of Azov, Putin's authorities do not pay wages to workers and their attempts to protest are brutally repressed"
In the Zaporizhia region, occupied by the Putin hitman, workers have not been paid their salaries for months. Fed up with this situation, they organized a protest in Peremohy (Russ. Pobedy) Square, Melitopol, Zaporizhia Oblast, in the administrative center of the occupied part of the region, demanding what is theirs: to be paid their due wages (ranging from 3 to 6 months in some cases). In desperation, the water workers went so far as to go house to house collecting the money for the service to support their families.
The head of the Russian city administration, Galina Danylchenko, threatened punishment under "wartime laws" for those who participated in the demonstration called for March 16 and asked the heads of enterprises to keep their employees at work until 7:00 pm, as the rally was scheduled for 6:00 pm.
However, despite threats and plain-clothed security forces with cameras seeking to intimidate the demonstrators, the protest went ahead by workers of the Melitopol water company, waterworks workers in the town of Dneprorudnoe, and teachers. And they managed to wrest from Putin's henchmen the payment of the January salary.
In the occupied Sea of Azov, Putin's authorities do not pay wages to the workers and their attempts to protest are brutally repressed. In the Putler Reich, any public protest by workers is repressed, even purely economic demands.
Workers' struggles in occupied Ukraine
In this war, the massacre, hunger, and the greatest hardships are suffered by the working class. And while Putin does not even pay the wages of the workers in the areas he occupies with his National Guard dogs, and persecutes, threatens, and imprisons those who dare to rise up (now, just as we saw him do in the Donbass in 2018), Ukraine's president Zelensky, using this massacre and destruction as a perfect excuse, is implementing the worst labor flexibilization plans that neither Poroshenko nor Yanukovych managed to implement.
In the midst of the invasion, Zelensky and his parliament enacted a labor reform that stripped the exploited of the most elementary rights such as not being fired without cause, the 8-hour working day, respect for the Labour Code, and collective bargaining with union representation. The working class of Kiev and its area of influence must unite in the demand with their class brothers and sisters in the occupied areas and with the Russian youth who refuse to fight and die for Putin's gang of murderers.
Unity of the Ukrainian working class and the whole of Europe, whose gains are still being taken away from them today! This is the only way to smash the Great Russian invasion and put an end to the NATO and imperialist Maastricht governments and regimes! Only the proletarian revolution can resolve the crisis of this war in favor of the working class, liberating the Ukrainian nation from all oppression and the working class of Russia and all Europe from exploitation, hunger and misery. |
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"Thieves officials, teachers are starving"
Calls to protest:
"Ready for mobilization. Melitopol 6 pm.
We want to live, not survive.
Stop stealing and pay the salaries.
We want wages."
Call to protest;
"We want to live, not survive.
March 16, 6 pm - Square Pobeny.
Give us our wages back"
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