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The PCE-EPK to the call for general strike in Euskadi


Executive Standing Committee of the PCE-EPK.

May 12, 2009 . The PCE-

Partidu Euskadiko Komunidad to the call for general strike on May 21 by the national labor center, wants to express:

The general strike is a powerful tool for the working class has been shown effective to throughout history to prevent cuts or improvements to start working to employers and governments. The general strike is not an end in itself, is a day of struggle which converge various labor and social mobilization to achieve clear and precise objective.

Unfortunately, the call for general strike in Euskadi by the leading national trade union centers in ELA and LAB, does not comply, in our view, these basic tenets to achieve success and ensure mass participation of women workers and workers Basques. Lost also an important opportunity for unity of action between nationalists and non-union forces nationalists around common claims against the economic crisis and, more seriously, we run the real risk of future demobilization if the whole class Worker feels orchestrated with objectives other than their own claims.

The nationalist unions call is made from the arrogance, exclusion and contempt for the unions of class nationalists and by extension workers and the workers they represent. From diverse political and nationalist trade union is already recognized that the general strike would not serve economic and employment objectives, but aims to be the roadmap of the new Basque government, in key and non-class identity. Unfortunately

and again in Euskadi, the identity element is permeating everything to position itself as a central axis and principal over other issues such economic, social or occupational functioning. Since the PCE-EPK regret this lost opportunity to call a strike unit with clear objectives and striving for maximum unity of action of the working class to ensure success. Basque communists continue betting on the general strike that serves the interests of workers and women workers to advance their social and labor demands, but do not share the clear manipulation we want to do the next day May 21, therefore, from the PCE-EPK not support this call and say, loud and clear that if a general strike, but not well.

Bilbao, May 2009.