Saturday, October 05, 2024

From Rojava to Xixón: Syndicalism is not a crime!

The Internationalist Commune of Rojava condemned the attack on six members of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) in the Spanish state.




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Friday, 4 October 2024,

The Internationalist Commune of Rojava issued a statement to condemn the attack on six members of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT). An attack, said the statement "that shows the Spanish state is widening its repression of unions in an attempt to weaken workers who fight for better conditions at work."

La Suiza Six are CNT members, 5 women and 1 man, who were involved to varying degrees in a trade union conflict that the CNT Xixón (Asturies) has with the bakery, La Suiza.

The statement said: "The case has been going on since 2017 after union members organised themselves to challenge the treatment of a worker at the bakery. One of the members of La Suiza Six is the worker herself, who was working in the bakery and brought to light the conditions she was working in. Some of the other members participated in the protests against the bakery. They received heavy sentences of three and a half years in prison and a fine of over €125,000 to compensate the bakery’s owner, €90,000 of which is for moral damages to the businessman and his wife and two adult children.

The workers fought the sentences and their legal battle brought the case to the Spanish state’s Supreme Court, but the court upheld the sentences on 24 June 2024."

More about the case here https://6delasuiza.info/#


The statement added: "Today, we answer the call from our friends in Spain and join with the hundreds of friends who’ve taken their own direct actions to denounce this ruling of a huge fine and time in prison.

From us here in Rojava to Xixón, Spain, we send our love, strength, and solidarity to La Suiza Six, CNT members, and all workers fighting for a better world."


OSTA expresses continued support for the global campaign for Öcalan’s freedom

The Trade Union Organization of Workers of Aragon in Spain convened with a single agenda item titled “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan”.



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Friday, 4 October 2024, 17:2


The Trade Union Organization of Workers of Aragon (OSTA) held a meeting at the union building on the occasion of the first anniversary of the global campaign ‘Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, a Political Solution to the Kurdish Question’. The only agenda item of the meeting, which was held with the participation of the executive board members of the union, was the global campaign that was launched globally on 10 October 2023.

After the meeting, Pedro Lebara, General Secretary of OSTA International Relations, made a statement on behalf of the union. The statement recalled that Abdullah Öcalan, a leader recognised as a political representative by millions of Kurds around the world, was kidnapped to Turkey in a conspiracy in 1999. Lebara reiterated OSTA's support for the international campaign ‘Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, a Political Solution to the Kurdish Question’.



Pedro Lobera also recalled the campaigns in which the union participated, noting that they took part in a press release initiative organised in more than 70 cities, which aimed to publicise the situation of Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish people to the international community.

Pointing out that the situation to which Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan is subjected is inhumane, Lebara said: “Serious rights violations and continuous human rights violations are taking place. In February 2024, we participated in a conference at the European Parliament in Brussels entitled ‘Where is peace going’ on the situation of political prisoners in Turkey, and in particular the imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. We also took part in a large demonstration in Cologne, Germany, demanding an end to the isolation of the Kurdish leader and revolutionary philosopher Abdullah Öcalan. Öcalan has been imprisoned on Imrali Island for 25 years and there are many political prisoners in Turkish prisons today for the same reason. In October, OSTA will continue to participate in the campaign to pressure the Turkish government to release Abdullah Öcalan and end hostilities against the Kurdish people.”

The union meeting ended with the slogan ‘Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan’.






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