Work, work, work?
We want more from life!
This year, too, we want to take to the streets with you to stand up for our anarchist beliefs on the traditional Workers’ Day. This day symbolizes the hard-won rights of workers, which are currently under massive attack once again.
What Federal Minister of Economics Reiche calls a “return to greater economic freedom and personal responsibility” actually amounts to a ruthless dismantling of social security systems for the benefit of a select few. Merz is agitating—without any factual basis—against “work-shy individuals,” the supposedly spiraling costs of the citizen’s income, and the concept of “lifestyle part-time work,” which he himself invented. The basic income reform, the removal of health services from the list of statutory health insurance benefits, cuts to continued pay during sick leave, raising the retirement age, weakening the statutory pension, and the abolition of the eight-hour workday are being seriously discussed or have already been decided—all of this with virtually no significant protests. The already completely absurd distribution of social wealth is shifting in only one direction—and that is even further upward.
But we want far more than to defend and thereby perpetuate the current status quo. We want to talk about what work means to us and what it could look like if it were not subordinated to capitalist logic, but rather if we organized it ourselves, free from exploitation and oppression. We want to reflect on what we truly need and how we can produce it without destroying our global foundation for life and without it making us sick. We want the work that needs to be done to be distributed fairly—globally, but also in terms of gender. We want to discuss ways in which we, as a society, can work for wages less (not more!) in order to find enough time for what really matters: nurturing social relationships, building communities of solidarity, maintaining health, education, and political participation, …
Work, work, work?
We want more out of life!
So join us in large numbers at the anarchist demonstration on May 1!
12:00 PM – Wettiner Platz – Demonstration
2:00 PM – Jorge-Gomondai-Platz – Rally with info tables and workshops
7:00 PM – FAU Local (Bürgerstr. 52) – Get-together
