Lively discussion among students, parents, and workers about an international counter-offensive against capitalism
Last week, students, parents and workers came together at the bi-weekly online meeting of the Safe Education Action Committees Network. The lively discussion was marked by enormous anger and outrage at the pandemic policies of the ruling class and the dangerous conditions in schools and workplaces. The introductory report and video segments of speeches from the ICFI’s international May Day rally highlighted the importance of the newly formed International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), which will unite workers across all national borders in opposition to the corporatist unions. The network had previously issued a joint resolution supporting the formation of the International Workers Alliance and calling for participation in the online rally on May 1.
Stop front boarding on Berlin buses prepare strike action!
Dear colleagues,
The decision of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG, Berlin Transit Company) management to reintroduce front boarding on buses next Monday, despite rising infection figures, is a deliberate provocation and must not be allowed. The health and lives of bus drivers and BVG workers stand higher than the profit interests of the BVG board and the Social Democratic Party (SPD)/Left Party/Green Party Senate (state executive).
The third coronavirus wave is in full swing. In Berlin, more than 165,000 people have been infected since the beginning of the pandemic, including at least 340 of our colleagues. More than 3,200 Berliners have died, and over 82,000 nationwide, including Sven B., a tram driver, and our colleague from the Cicero-Strasse bus depot. Covid illnesses are also increasing among the employees of the Sasse company, who clean our vehicles.
Workers and youth in Germany support call for International Workers Alliance and mobilise for ICFI May Day online rally
Workers and youth from across Germany tell the WSWS why they support the International Committee of the Fourth International’s call for the formation of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees and will be attending tomorrow’s May Day rally of the ICFI. We call on our readers to register here for this important event.
Habip
Habip Bektas is one of the WISAG workers at Rhein-Main Airport in Frankfurt who have been fighting their dismissals for almost half a year. In December, the experienced airport worker received his dismissal along with a total of around 230 other colleagues, some of whom had spent almost 40 years at the airport, ruining their health while handling the planes.