The Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) is holding an online meeting “The COVID-19 pandemic and the need for a socialist strategy” this Sunday, May 30, at 6:00 p.m. Indian Standard Time.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo sends police against striking waste workers
On Tuesday, several hundred Paris garbage collectors and sewage workers demonstrated against the civil service reforms due to take effect on January 1, 2022, by occupying City Hall. The Socialist Party (PS) mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the police prefecture responded with police repression, chasing away the strikers and imposing heavy fines.
Sewage workers and garbage collectors, employed by the municipality, first demonstrated in front of City Hall, then entered the courtyard of the building. Some climbed onto the roofs of the building with smoke bombs. Several hundred remained outside. The strikers unfurled a banner on the roof that declared: “Hidalgo sacrifices the heroes.”
The WSWS is publishing today a <a target=" blank" href="/zh/articles/2021/05/28/fiwa-m28.html">Chinese</a> translation of the ICFI’s call for the formation of an International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC).
The autoworkers’ job action underscores that it is the global working class that is the main source of opposition to the ruling elite’s criminal “open economy” policy, which prioritizes capitalist profit over saving workers’ lives.