Workers and youth in Germany demand general strike for a “strict lockdown”
Despite the devastating spread of the “third wave” of the coronavirus pandemic, all European governments are pursuing the deadly policy of reopening schools and the economy. The Network of Rank-and-File Committees for Safe Education (Netzwerk der Aktionkomittees für Sichere Bildung) met on Monday of last week to organize resistance to these policies.
“We are faced with the necessity of imposing a serious, Europe-wide lockdown that includes schools, daycare centers and industry,” Gregor Kahl, Bundestag candidate for the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP, Socialist Equality Party in Germany), said at the beginning of his remarks opening the meeting. “Insofar as this is not done, hundreds of thousands of lives will be at stake in Germany and Europe.”