The committee condemns the sacking of London bus driver David O’Sullivan by Metroline because of his demand that workers should be protected against coronavirus.
Support the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees! Attend the ICFI’s May Day rally!
The Network of Action Committees for Safe Education in Germany supports the International Committee of the Fourth International’s (ICFI) and the Socialist Equality Party’s (SGP) call for the formation of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC). At its latest online meeting on Monday, the Network passed the following resolution with no votes opposed:
“The Network of Action Committees for Safe Education supports the ICFI’s appeal for the building of an International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees. The murderous coronavirus policies pursued by the capitalist class and their governments have led to a catastrophe around the world. Only through independent rank-and-file committees unified internationally can workers coordinate their struggles in various workplaces, industries, and countries against these policies and the corpora
German high school student: “If we don’t close the schools, no one will!”
German high school student: “If we don’t close the schools, no one will!”
Faced with death tolls unseen in Europe since World War II, the Network of Action Committees for Safe Education (Netzwerk der Aktionskomitees für sichere Bildung) in Germany convened an emergency meeting on Tuesday to advance the fight for school closures and discuss prospects for a general strike against the politics of mass infection with the coronavirus.
Classroom in Dortmund, Germany, August 13, 2020 (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
“Since our last meeting, the situation has worsened enormously,” Christoph Vandreier, deputy chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (SGP), stated at the outset of the meeting. “Almost 1,000 people a day are now dying in Germany, and according to experts, this figure will continue to rise, driving the health care system to collapse, which in turn will cause many more deaths. Even no