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Solidarity Statement on the Uprising of the People in Iran
16 October 2022: ICOG wholeheartedly supports the peoples' uprising in Iran. Starting from the death of the young Kurdish woman Jina Amini, the mass protests in the country do not stop. The people are fighting against poverty, inflation, hunger and oppression, especially of women. Against the state violence and repression of the peoples' uprising, with thousands of arrests and already more than 150 deaths, the struggle is expanding. Since 2021, there have been 4,000 strikes by workers. These workers, experienced in struggle, are organizing, including auto workers and colleagues from the Tehran Bus Drivers Union, who support the International Automotive Workers movement. Long live International Solidarity!
Solidarity greetings for the December 2, 2022 General Strike in Italy
16 October 2022: To the workers in Italy who are holding a general strike on December 2 To SI Cobas and other grassroots unions Colleagues, the International Coordination Group of the International Automotive Workers' Coordination sends you militant greetings for your general strike on December 2, 2022. With the slogan "Wages up, weapons down" you stand exemplary for the connection of the struggle for economic demands with the struggle against the imperialist war in Ukraine and the danger of a 3rd World War. The Italian workers' movement is also particularly challenged in the struggle against a right-ward government with the participation of fascists. Workers will not be harnessed to the cart of any imperialist, whether it is called NATO, Russia or the EU. The worldwide accelerated imperialist world crisis is a challenge for us workers to fight for a real upheaval of the destructive capitalist world order. There must be an end to the unscrupulous greed for profit against any humanity and perspective of future. For a world without exploitation and oppression, for a life in unity with nature. Militant, solidary greetings Long live International Solidarity!
In Brazil, workers defeat Bolsonaro at the polls
3 November 2022: Correspondence from Brazil: Now, it is time to defeat coup actions, maintain class independence and prepare the struggle for our demands and against any attack on our rights! This Sunday (October 30), we managed to impose an important defeat to Bolsonaro (Liberal Party/PL) and the ultra-right in Brazil. In one of the most disputed and polarized elections in our history, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers´Party/PT) won 50.90% of the valid votes, equivalent to more than 60 million votes (60,345,999); against 49.10%, or a little more than 58 million votes, for Bolsonaro (58,206,354).
Solidarity Statement on Strike in France
16 October 2022: ICOG declares its full solidarity with your courageous struggle of refinery workers in France. Your demand for a 10 percent wage increase and environmental protection measures is fully justified. It is right that you are putting the French government with Emmanuel Macron on the spot. We condemn the planned forced obligation of workers and welcome that other workforces join the strike. Long live International Solidarity!
ICOG Solidarity Message: Declaration of protest against arrests in the Philippines
16 October 2022: Just 3 days after the 10th anniversary of the Global Day of Struggle for Decent Work, the Internationalism Officer of the KMU Kara Taggaoa union and the President of the PASADO-Piston union Larry Valbuena were arrested.
Solidarity Declaration with Russian Strike Leader Kirill Ukraintsev
16 October 2022: Kirill has been leading strikes by courier drivers, against Delivery Club's 20 percent cut in wages, while inflation has officially increased by 20 percent. Russian authorities declared the strike illegal and a criminal offense.
3rd World Women's Conference in Tunis: Final Resolution: We are women, we are strong!
9 September 2022: The International Automotive Workers' Coordination participated with a delegation in the 3rd World Women's Conference in Tunisia. We document the final resolution below: Finally! The 3rd World Women's Conference of Grassroots Women took place in Tunis/Tunisia from September 3rd to 9th, 2022 in a spirit of solidarity, inquisitiveness, argumentative, self-confident and sure of victory. With a militant demonstration that drew a lot of media attention, a celebratory opening, 31 workshops, a substantial general assembly, inspiring cultural evenings and a joint final plenary session, she inspired spirit and feelings under the motto »we are women we are strong«.
Solidarity greetings and congratulation to employees on strike at Mercedes-Benz São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil
10 September 2022: Mercedes Benz metalworkers approved stoppage against mass dismissal from 8 to 11 of September. On the eve of the independence holiday in Brazil, Mercedes-Benz announced a restructuring in its truck and bus chassis plant in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo city. This is the company's largest plant outside of Germany, 3,600 workers will be dismissed and a significant part of the production will be outsourced. The company's restructuring plan will affect the layoff of 2,200 regular workers and 1,400 outsourced workers. These will not have their temporary contracts renewed after December 2022. On Thursday 8 September 6,000 employees went on strike. Congratulation, this was exactly the right step and start to defend all of the jobs.
To the Team of "Indian Federation of Automotive unions (IFAU)" warm greetings from ICOG !!
Dear Avtar Singh, dear All, The International Coordinating Group (ICOG) of International Automotive Workers Coordination is very happy to learn about the foundation of an Indian Federation of Automotive unions on national level. Much success for this important and forward looking historical step. Cooperation with you for International solidarity of Automotive Workers and their families we will certainly and with great pleasure take up. Coordinated work will strengthen our Unity! You are going to establish an "Indian Federation of Automotive unions (IFAU)" in India. Thank you very much for inviting ICOG to the first inaugural meeting of IFAU. Our best wishes for the foundation of this National Federation of Automotive Workers Union.
3rd World Women's Conference in Tunesia has started - Greetings of the IAC in the midst of the participants
South Africa: salute to national shutdown on 24 August 2022
We, the anti-imperialist antifascist international united front, salute your national shutdown on 24. August 2022. ! It is organized by your federation SAFTU, South African Federation of Trade Unions . With 1,2 Million members you are a powerful union. Please tell us all about your struggle and your evaluation of the experience in this fight. Worldwide the ruling class is shifting the burdens of the war in Ucraine and the economic and financial crisis onto the workers, their families and the masses. Your fight against the rising cost of living, against unemployment and privatisation and against gender based violence is justified and we, the representatives of the workers, women, migrant and youth movement in the United Front send you our solidarity and support.
1st of September 2022: International Day of Struggle against Fascism and War - International unity of workers - active for world peace
20 August 2022: With the Ukraine war the danger of a 3rd world war has enormously intensified. In Europe, the military alliance NATO and Russia, the leading nuclear powers (about 6,000 nuclear warheads each!) are bitterly confronting each other in this unjust imperialist war. On August 6, the day the first nuclear bomb was dropped in Hiroshima, Japan in 1945, tens of thousands took to the streets this year in many countries against the threat of nuclear war. The worldwide expansion of nuclear power plants despite the last catastrophic experience in Fukushima serves not least the military nuclear armament.
Let's make August 6, 2022 – Hiroshima Day – a worldwide day of struggle against war
Resolution of the webinar of the anti-imperialist and anti-fascist united front "Struggle against nuclear death" with 95 participants from 20 countries on July 24, 2022:
NATIONAL LEADERS OF SI COBAS ARRESTED: A NEW, HIGHLY REPRESSIVE ATTACK ON UNIONS AND WORKERS' STRUGGLES
The national coordinator of the rank-and-file union SI Cobas has been placed under house arrest, together with three union organisers in the city of Piacenza, and two local organisers of the USB union. They are charged with "criminal association","private violence" (i.e. picketing warehouses during strikes), resistance to public official, sabotage and interruption of public service, in order to achieve advantages for the union members over and above the national collective agreement, and to achieve personal advantages. This attack is aimed at isolating combative workers of the logistic sector - who have carried out a long wave of strikes in the last decade, organised with SI Cobas - from the rest of the working class in a moment when wages are being battered by inflation spurred by the war and a strong, generalised struggle is needed. The state judicial and police apparatus also aim at criminalising strikes and pickets, and restoring monopoly powers for the official unions that have become a pillar of the system and are supporting the bosses' governments. Logistic workers have given a strong response with a general strike and demonstrations in more than a dozen cities. Next Saturday a national demonstration in Piacenza.
Internationally United - Workers of Corporate Group All Together - One Struggle!
5 July 2022: Dear colleagues, on Wednesday, June 29, the workforce of the EVO bus plant (subsidiary of Daimler Truck) in Mannheim in Germany went up from 1:30 p.m on independent strike against the announcement to relocate the body shop to the Czech Republic. This was announced exactly on the day when the car/van plants of Daimler, which have been spun off since November 2021, were lulled into alleged security with new alleged "assurances for the future". There you can clearly see what the separation aimed at and always aims at.
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