Comunicado de Izquierda Anticapitalista-Granada

Desde Izquierda Anticapitalista- Granada nos solidarizamos con la lucha de la plantilla de INAGRA frente al intento de ERE. La empresa pretende, alegando problemas económicos, despedir entre 180 y 200 trabajadores o en caso contrario recortar el salario en un 20%.

Esta decisión es fruto de una mala gestión de la empresa y del ayuntamiento del PP que adeuda a INAGRA 47 millones de euros. Y una vez más pretenden que paguen los platos rotos los de siempre. Es decir los que menos tienen: la clase trabajadora. Aún cuando la empresa ha presentado 3 millones de euros de beneficios en el 2009.

This is the editorial from the November / December issue of Socialist Resistance which will be available soon.

The spending review George Osborne has presented is the biggest package of cuts in Britain in living memory — £81 billion of cuts, the sacking of 500,000 public sector workers, with an additional 500,000 job losses in the private sector as a consequence, plus a massive attack on health, education, the arts, transport social housing, welfare, and local government. This goes alongside large scale deregulation and privatisation and a vicious demonization of the public sector.

There is a bonfire of regulations and regulatory bodies with total disregard to the circumstances.

The real face of the coalition was exposed when Osborne’s speech, presented with his usual sneer, was grotesquely greeted by Tory and Lib Dem MPs with prolonged cheering and stamping of feet and waving of order papers.

As shadow chancellor Alan Johnson pointed out, in an otherwise woefully inadequate response to Osborne, they relished every minute of it. With the Tories even more than the snivelling Lib Dems it was what they came into politics to do. It’s what they dream about when they think of the future.

This reaction exposed the most stomach churning and disingenuous mantra in the coalition vocabulary - that they are forced to make ‘hard choices’. This is nonsense. They make these choices with gusto. They are precisely what they have wanted to do for a long time and are now using the crisis as an opportunity to do so and they have absolutely no intention of reversing any of this whatever happens to the economy.

Cameron and Osborne are the most ideologically driven Tory leaders of modern times. They denounce the state and all its socially useful works. Yet neither the Tories nor the Lib Dems have a mandate for this onslaught in the election. Cameron cynically cultivated his socially concerned image and talked about how much he loved the NHS whilst he was putting together plans designed to take it apart at the seams.

What we have is a right-wing Thatcherite, small state, slash and burn, Tory Government, propped up by the Lib Dems. We have a millionaire cabinet which is delivering an attack on the poor the like of which Margaret must have dreamed of but was never able to achieve. Their project is to put an end to the age of welfare which opened up with Beveridge after the end of the Second World War and Osborne has said publicly that he does not have a Plan B.

The Tories have planned for this for years before getting into office and the language they use is becoming increasingly savage and intolerant. They are pushing concepts such as the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor — dredged up form Victorian England. The media has been fed endless stories of ‘benefit scroungers’ sponging off ‘hard working taxpayers’ and ‘housing cheats’ living in luxury accommodation with huge families at the expense of the rest of society.

Incapacity benefit claimants are portrayed as ‘work-shy scroungers’ who have no intention of finding a job. Public sector workers are portrayed as useless bureaucrats sitting in overstaffed workplaces on their feather beds waiting to draw their gold plated pensions. They are ‘waste’ to be ‘cut out’ as soon as possible.

Interviewed after Osborne’s speech Transport Minister Phillip Hammond told the BBC that however much benefit claimants ‘squealed’ these measure would be going ahead. This is the language of naked class hatred.

It will be the urban poor, particularly in the inner city areas, who will be the hardest hit particularly by the decisions to slash council spending. The cut in housing benefit and means tested tenancies in social housing will drive hundreds of thousands of poorer families out of the richer boroughs in huge exercise in social cleansing.

Hammond’s ruling class arrogance was matched by Ian Duncan Smith who echoed Norman Tebbit’s “get on your bike” speech with an appeal to ‘get on a bus’ in the search for non-existent jobs. Ministers tried to present draconian withdrawals of benefits from vulnerable people as ‘liberating them from dependency’.

Alongside all this reactionary spin has gone the ridiculous mantra that the debt must be repaid and the ‘there is no alternative’. It is the economics of the madhouse and is likely to push the economy further down probably to a double dip recession and throw even more out of work.

Remarkably the coalition has launched this massive attack and still have majority support in the population. The Tories are still ahead in the opinion polls! The Lib Dem vote has predictably collapsed but, at the time of writing, the Tories are on 43% with Labour on 39%. This may well now start to change of course but to get to this stage with majority support is a remarkable achievement. It means that they have decisively won the ideological argument over the past 5 months.

It is a very dangerous situation and is reflected in the lack of active opposition which still prevails. This is partly due to the pernicious role of the media — which collapsed into a default position ‘that there is no alternative to the cuts’ immediately after the election and that is only just beginning to change a bit.

It is also due to the dire response of Labour as an opposition since the election. They not only left the field open to the coalition to do their worst but they allowed themselves to be trapped into the Brown/Darling formula of halving the debit over 4 years — which itself implied massive cuts even if they were less than the coalition.

Ed Balls began to challenge this in a limited way during the election campaign but the appointment of Alan Johnson as shadow Chancellor by Ed Miliband has abruptly reversed this. Johnson’s appointment demonstrates at a stroke the failure of the Ed Miliband leadership and wipes out the one significant difference he had with his brother during the leadership election and it was the one which won him union support.

There is a desperate need for a united response to this situation. In this issue we outline our ideas for an ecosocialist solution to the capitalist crisis which creates job, redistributes wealth from the rich to the working class and addresses climate change. However this needs to be organised. The small demonstrations after the Con Dem spending plans were announced were a necessary but weak counter-mobilisation. In the coming months we have to start putting the framework in place for a well rooted national campaigning organisation. The Coalition of Resistance conference on November 27^th is where that work can begin.

  Comunicado de Izquierda Anticapitalista

Desde el pasado 9 de octubre se está desarrollando un nuevo escenario en el Sahara Occidental ocupado por Marruecos, una nueva forma de lucha impulsada por los sectores más jóvenes de la población saharaui. Jóvenes que, sin haber vivido los primeros tiempos de la ocupación colonial marroquí, hoy ven como ésta ahoga sus expectativas económicas, sociales y como se vulneran sus derechos.

Izquierda Anticapitalista Granada

La Plataforma contra la crisis de Granada ha ocupado simbólicamente esta mañana la Tesorería de la Seguridad Social ( Casa de la Perragorda) de la provincia en acto de protesta por la anunciada reforma de las pensiones. Este acto que ha comenzado a las 11 de la mañana y a terminado a las 11,30. Se inscribe dentro de las actividades que esta veintena de colectivos realizan contra las medidas anticrisis que toma el Gobierno.

 Kaosenlared

El histórico líder de Comisiones Obreras, Marcelino Camacho, ha fallecido este jueves a los 92 años tras una larga enfermedad.

Camacho llevaba ingresado en un hospital madrileño desde el pasado 26 de octubre, cuando entró gravemente enfermo. Su fallecimiento se ha producido a las 1,30 horas.

La capilla ardiente se instalará en la calle Lope de Vega, 40, en Madrid, desde las 10,00 horas de este viernes hasta las 11,30 horas del sábado.

Izquierda Anticapitalista-Granada

El miércoles 3 de noviembre, Izquierda Anticapitalista - Granada proyecta la película "Queimada" de Gillo Pontecorvo. Proponemos reflexionar junt@s sobre la cuestión del imperialismo y sobre los intereses, a veces contradictorios, de las diferentes potencias imperialistas.

"Queimada" cuenta la historia de un agente inglés, William Walker, que es enviado a Queimada, isla imaginaria del Caribe, para fomentar una revuelta contra los portugueses. La acción de Walker no tiene como objetivo favorecer la conquista de la independencia, sino que al contrario, apunta a que Inglaterra pueda sustituir la potencia colonialista.

Debat a Catalunya Informació. Amb l'activista Esther Vivas, el president de l'AAVV de Ciutat Vella Josep García, el representant del sindicat de Policies David Miquel i l'advocat Jaume Asens. - Audiovisual / Catalunya, llibertats

Revolta Global-Esquerra Anticapitalista del Vallès Oriental. El trinxament del territori del Vallès Oriental i la liquidació o amenaça dels espais naturals és del tot visible i evident. Veure fotografies>> - Catalunya / Ecologia, Catalunya

När rapporter började komma om hur svårt sjuka människor drabbades av de nya sjukförsäkringsreglerna trodde nog många att det skulle bli alliansregeringens fall. Personer med pågående cancerbehandling tvingades avbryta den för att ”pröva sin arbetsförmåga”. Neurologiskt sjuka och psykiskt sjuka drabbades. Att angripa de sjuka – det måste väl ändå …

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Video de la entrevista: aquí

Bartolo Fuentes, dirigente del Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular de Honduras realizó este mes de Octubre una gira por el Estado español para dar a conocer la situación política y social que atraviesa actualmente su país.

Durante una entrevista con LibreRed.net, Fuentes explicó cómo se encuentra Honduras un año y cuatro meses después del Golpe de Estado que derrocó al Presidente legítimo, Manuel Zelaya Rosales.