"When workers strike it directly hurts the employer. Production stops and their profits stop. The whole world can often see their grievances. That is why employers often give in to the demands of workers on strike. Hunger strikes are like a scream in the night. People sit up and ask: Who was that? What is going on? Many people understand how desperate you must be to stop eating. Not all strikes win. Some strikes are broken. Authorities bring in their thugs to beat people. Sometimes guards force-feed hunger strikers – which is torture. The authorities try, with tricks and bribes, to corrupt our leaders and divide the people. They use media to portray strikers as greedy troublemakers and dangerous criminals. So winning takes struggle: Strikers need to stand together and take risks. Honest people on the outside need to spread the message and show up to support. We live in a society full of dog-eat-dog thinking. We need to change this. We need waves of solidarity — where people back each other as brothers and sisters. If we suffer together, we need to fight together. When other people fight, we need to support them. Whenever people stand up, there is something that cannot be taken away. We have learned how to unite. We have started to find allies in the rest of society. We have built new networks of power and action. And we can start to plan something even bigger together. We can dream of ending all oppression, freeing everyone, everywhere, forever. Our solidarity today can be one step to our liberation tomorrow." kasamaproject.org/en/threads/entry/why-strikes-matter
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:16:30 +0000
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