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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.”
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.
Our colleague Erwin Dietrich has passed away suddenly
June 14, 2026: German Coordination Group of the International Automotive Workers' Coordination: We are deeply saddened by the sudden death of our friend, colleague, and longtime activist in the International Automotive Workers' Coordination, Erwin Dietrich. He died suddenly after suffering a fainting spell while on a motorcycle tour. We mourn with his wife and family.
Call for Solidarity with Workers in Bolivia
June 5, 2026: Comrades! On behalf of the communications teams and leadership of Bolivia’s COB and Brazil’s CSP-Conlutas, we call on you to join a united front of struggle and internationalist solidarity. Bolivia is experiencing decisive moments of workers’ and popular rebellion; therefore, the active solidarity of the Latin American and global vanguard is an urgent political necessity to break the media siege and strengthen the struggle in the streets.
No to the closure of the Audi plant in Neckarsulm in Germany– Fight for every job and apprenticeship!
June 4, 2026: VW CEO Oliver Blume had already targeted the closure of four plants in Germany during the last supervisory board meeting. The plants in Emden, Hanover, and Zwickau, as well as the Audi plant in Neckarsulm, were cited.
Stellantis International Newsletter No. 33 – May 2026
May 9, 2026: From the Stellantis Group Coordination within the IAC: Dear Colleagues, The international day of action on March 24 was a first step in our joint, group-wide struggle for our rights. We had already reported on this in April. At several plants, colleagues actively participated, signed our demands, and engaged in discussions. In Bochum, 100 colleagues gathered during working hours. On May 1, for example, colleagues in Eisenach (Germany) carried the Day of Action banner in the demonstration.
Videos from May 1 in Pune, India, and Torino, Italy, Solidarity greetings from Nepal
May 1, 2026: May 1 was celebrated around the world as the International Day of Struggle of the Working Class. We received videos of May Day demonstrations and events from India and Italy. Thank you very much.
Against precarious work—shorter working hours with full wage compensation—Down with fascism and imperialist wars
April 23, 2026: Call by the International Coordination Group (ICOG) for May 1, 2026: In the Middle East, the danger of a global conflagration has intensified enormously following the imperialist attack by the U.S. and Israel on Iran and Lebanon. Russia’s war against Ukraine continues unabated. Worldwide, the shifting of the burdens of war and crisis onto workers and their families through price hikes—such as for gas, gasoline, or diesel—is placing an enormous strain on people. While billionaires like Elon Musk grow ever richer, hundreds of millions worldwide are fighting for their very survival.
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