NO WAR! STATEMENT OF THE IWA SECTION IN THE REGION OF RUSSIA / NO A LA GUERRA! DECLARACIÓN DE LA SECCIÓN DE LA A.I.T. EN LA REGIÓN DE RUSIA (Engl., Esp.)
The year 2021 was mainly about developing contacts in the regions, solidarity activities and participation in public events. We also won another conflict and supported several workers with their workplace problems. We took part in actions against the climate crisis, coordinated the International Week Against Unpaid Wages and hosted the IWA Plenary and Extraordinary Congress.
Anarcho-syndicalists continue to fight for a more just tomorrow, because we carry a new world here in our hearts. and that world is growing this minute.
The year 2021 was mainly about developing contacts in the regions, solidarity activities and participation
in public events. We also won another conflict and supported several workers with their workplace
problems. We took part in actions against the climate crisis, coordinated the International Week Against
Unpaid Wages and hosted the IWA Plenary and Extraordinary Congress.
Statement by Russian anarcho-syndicalists and anarchists on the situation in Kazakhstan
We, Anarcho-syndicalists and Anarchists of Russia express our full and complete solidarity with the social protest of the working people of Kazakhstan and send them our comradely greetings!
The current explosion of social protest in Kazakhstan, one of the most outstanding and brightest since the beginning of the new century, has become the apogee of the wave of the strike struggle of oil workers and other categories of workers in the country, which has not stopped since last summer.
Eighty-five years later, the struggle continues, Ferrer, Ascaso, Durruti! They symbolize and remind us of so many anonymous people who gave their lives for the ideals of freedom and social justice.
Week_2021_no_lines_IG_en_smallThis year’s “Week” was accompanied by activities in at least 17 countries. IWA organizations informed about the Week in various ways – some took actions in the streets, some mobilized and prepared for conflicts, some shared experience from their conflicts, and some simply published and spread the information the statement. Let’s evaluate this year’s Week.
Evaluation of the second International Week Against Unpaid Wages
We are happy to announce that, as part of the International Week Against Unpaid Wages, we prepared an English version of our pamphlet related to our workplace conflicts between years 2015 and 2019. The publication called "How We Coped with Problems at Work. Conflicts of Priama Akcia Union in 2015-2019" provides a detailed description of conflicts in all their stages. It contains photos from actions, interviews with the workers, leaflets and a short analysis of hospitality sector where most of the conflicts took place.
This was our fastest victory so far. It took just eight days from a collective delivery of a demand letter for the former veterinary hospital worker to receive the money in her account. Same as in our last case in 2019, we succeeded before the conflict went into the public phase, since the boss paid the amount owed within a deadline. We are thankful to all people who came out to support the worker during the letter delivery and wanted to join the planned solidarity campaign! In this article you will find more information about the conflict and an interview with the worker.
