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Declaration of Solidarity with the VW workers in Germany!!!
September 8. 2026: IAC-ICOG Justice South Africa: Dear Colleagues, dear Friends and dear Representatives of the Automotive Workers in VW. With great respect and appreciation, as the IAC/ICOG we would like to express our unconditional support and unwavering solidarity with you in your struggle against against plant closures and jobs cut. We are aware of the plans to cut 100 000 jobs worldwide in VW whilst in Germany alone, four plants employing thousands of workers are set to be closed.
S.I. Cobas Italy: SOLIDARITY WITH GERMAN AUTOMOTIVE WORKERS FIGHTING TO DEFEND THEIR JOBS
September 7, 2026: S.I. Cobas Nazionale: INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRUGGLE OF AUTOMOTIVE WORKERS IN GERMANY! ON SEPTEMBER 21, LET’S BLOCK THE BOSSES' PROFITS: THE WORKERS WON'T PAY FOR THEIR CRISIS! On September 21, automotive workers in Germany will cross their arms in a major day of strike and mobilization. As SI Cobas, we send our entire, fraternal, complicit, and militant support to the German workers taking up the fight against the criminal plans of corporate restructuring.
International Day of Struggle Against Fascism and War!
August 31, 2026: ICOG's Call for Anti-War Day on September 1, 2026: On this day, as thousands of workers and young people demonstrate worldwide, the International Coordinating Group (ICOG) of the International Automotive Workers' Coordination , on behalf of auto industry workers who met at a conference in Pune, India, in November 2025, calls for intensifying the struggle against a dangerous escalation of imperialist capitalism that threatens the planet.
Declaration of Solidarity with the Strikers at BAIC in Gqeberha-Coega, South Africa
August 20, 2026: Dear Colleagues, Dear Representatives of the NUMSA Union, With great respect and appreciation, we would like to congratulate you on your strike, which has now lasted for over 6 weeks. We wish you continued strength and perseverance and hope that you achieve your goals in full. As the coordinating group of the International Automotive Workers' Coordination, we stand by your side and will mobilize our contacts and networks worldwide to organize international solidarity.
Iran: Stop the Executions!
August 13, 2026: Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, a member of the International Trade Union Network for Solidarity and Struggles: Today, as our country is being suffocated under the weight of crushing economic crises, rampant inflation, the collapse of the rial's value, military aggression by the US and Israel, the continuation of devastating war, economic sanctions, severe and widespread repression, and warmongering policies, the rulers once again answer the people’s demands for bread, work, justice, freedom, and human dignity with the most violent instrument of fear and intimidation: the gallows.
Venezuela: Meeting of the Automotive, Auto Parts, and Tire Sectors to Strengthen Workers’ Organizations.
August 17, 2026: Correspondence: Valencia, (Venezuela), August 2026 — With 60 workers in attendance, this strategic forum aimed at reorganizing the working class was held in Carabobo State. This activity builds on the work assigned by the 3rd International Automotive Workers’ Conference, held in Pune, India. The main objective of the meeting was to reorganize and strengthen workers’ structures, as well as to maintain coordination of joint actions at the international level.
Stellantis International Newsletter No. 34 – August 2026
From the Stellantis Group Coordination within the IAC: Dear Colleagues, When announcing their “strategy” in May, the Stellantis executives went to great lengths to lull us workers into a false sense of security. Grand promises are being made for various plants such as Cassino, Pomigliano, Melfi, Mulhouse, Rennes, Zaragoza, Vigo, and Rüsselsheim. But there is no security for us; work is continuing to intensify everywhere, and we will not allow ourselves to be divided into so-called “winning plants” and “losing plants.”
Philippines: HANDS OFF KMU CHAIRPERSON JEROME ADONIS!
August 16, 2026: German-Filipinino Friends: Call for Solidarity with Jerome Adonis, General Secretary of the Kilunsang Mayo Uno union in the Philippines: Drop all trumped-up charges against labor leaders and activists! Today, August 13, 2026, Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) Chairperson Jerome Adonis was subjected to an attempted arrest after a warrant was issued over fabricated charges of violating Article 153 of the Revised Penal Code in connection with this year’s Labor Day protest. On this same day 44 years ago, under the Marcos Sr. dictatorship, former KMU Chairperson Felixberto Olalia Sr. and twelve other unionists were also arrested in Manila.
Message of solidarity to our striking colleagues at the BAIC assembly plant in Coega in South Africa
August 9, 2026: German-Soutrh-African Friendship Society Marikana: Dear colleagues, We in Germany have also heard about your courageous and persistent struggle. In the face of the global cut-throat competition in the automotive industry, your struggle is of enormous significance. It sends a signal that automotive workers worldwide are going on the offensive against the destruction programme of international monopolies such as VW, Daimler and BAIC.
Video: Message of Solidarity from CSP Conlutas Brazil
July 8, 2026: CSP Conlutas expresses its solidarity with the workers fighting in Germany and South Korea. Long live international solidarity!
SOLIDARITY STATEMENT FROM CSP-CONLUTAS TO THE GENERAL STRIKE OF SOUTH KOREAN METALWORKERS - KMWU
CSP-Conlutas (People's and Union Central) and the National Secretariat of Metalworkers express our full solidarity with the 180,000 workers of the Korean Metal Workers' Union - KMWU, who will go on a general strike on July 15, 2026.
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY STATEMENT FROM CSP-CONLUTAS METALWORKERS TO EUROPEAN AUTOMOTIVE WORKERS
The metalworkers organized in CSP-Conlutas (People's and Union Central) express our total and unrestricted class solidarity with the workers of Volkswagen, Audi, Mercedes, MAN, Porsche and the entire European automotive industry. We stand side by side with the workers who today face mass layoffs, plant closure plans and the repression of the bourgeois State.
Message of Solidarity from Shramik Ekta Mahasangh, Pune, India
July 5, 2026: Dear Comrades, Greetings from Shramik Ekta Mahasangh, Pune, India. On behalf of Shramik Ekta Mahasangh, we express our full solidarity with the workers of Volkswagen, Audi, Mercedes, MAN, Porsche, and all automotive workers who are fighting against job cuts, plant closures, and police repression.
Organize solidarity with the struggle against job cuts and police violence
July 4, 2026: Dear comrades in the International Automotive Workers' Coordination, The auto industry is intensifying its attacks on auto workers. VW plans to cut 100,000 jobs worldwide. In Germany alone, four plants employing thousands of workers are set to be closed. Mercedes plans to close a plant in South Africa. Two plants in China have already been shut down. Capitalist competition is a battle of annihilation that is to be waged on the backs of us workers.
ICOG's Statement of Solidarity with Our Colleagues at the Volkswagen Group
June 29, 2026: Dear Colleagues, Now the cat’s out of the bag. The *Bild* newspaper, a mouthpiece for German imperialism, has published the plans of the Volkswagen Group Executive Board. They intend to cut 100,000 jobs and close four car plants in Germany alone. At the same time, the German government is announcing drastic cuts to health insurance, long-term care insurance, and pensions, and plans to abolish the eight-hour workday.
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