Strike: A tool in workers’ toolset

In their self-organized activities against the state and the capitalists, the worker always engages in self-education and sharing experiences, which shows the importance of a democratic worker’s organization in the factories. The Sugarcane plant workers’ demand for council administration is a demand to fight against exploitation in the workplace.

Reclaiming a small salary from a totalitarian, authoritarian, and militaristic state is not the main demand of the worker; When there is no internal armament of various popular self-organizations, establishing solidarity with factories can help share efforts and experiences, and force the retreat of the system. It should be noted that even in the event of a system’s retreat and, consequently, successful recapture of the factory management authority, and the council administration, the tools of repression are still in the government’s hand.

We support and are enthusiastic for workers’ protests with the possibility of increasing their active, direct, militant, and insurrectionist actions against the state. However, The tools of the state’s repression, the hierarchical and authoritarian system, and the influence of capitalism will not be destroyed by these tools. Radical means must be used along with strikes to bring the regime to its knees and, after the destruction of the hierarchy, to exercise direct democracy and to dismantle the capitalists’ control and livelihood from the factories.

A strike is a tool of the workers and a transient way to achieve specific goals at a particular time, not a solution to the aspirations of autonomous communities. When one can trace the roots of many workers’ sufferings to the whips of authoritarians and capitalist economics, one must seek to eliminate them. Showing tolerance and leniency to worker killers is a betraying of our loved ones.

How can the November uprising be forgotten? Non-radical positions will take many more lives from us. The main problem of the worker is the means of repression in the hands of the oppressor, and the strike alone will not deprive the state and the capitalists of this tool.

Federation of Anarchism Era