Cover: Interview with Workers’ Initiative on the strike at Jeremias factory in Gniezno
We experience every day that things in the workplaces and in society have changed. Organization of labour struggles is weakened by the divisions between those who work in the same hub, factory, school, call centre etc. Solidarity is challenged by the differences of nationality, contracts, time of employment, political conditions such as residence permits for migrants or patriarchal violence against women. The TSS Platform was born out of the realisation that there is no local way out to this situation: only a political movement that builds connections across borders can overturn this state of affairs and accumulate a common strength.
We have seen in the last decade that the strike has emerged again as the most powerful form of struggle and tool for connecting different subjects. Migrants strikes, feminist strike and coordinated strikes in logistical warehouses are the experiences we take inspiration from and we aim at triggering and enlarging. The strike is for us the name of a power that aims at damaging the pillars on which this unequal and unjust society is grounded. Building the conditions to exercise this power is what we need in order to overthrow the current state of subordination to employers and politicians.
The TSS Platform is a political infrastructure to confront these challenges and push forward the movement of strike on a transnational scale. It is a space of organization, communication and encounter where different figures of labour can think together about how to develop a common vision, how to support common claims capable of being instruments of emancipation and how to build the conditions of possibility of the transnational social strike.
How do we organise?
We hold monthly online meetings of the TSS coordination group and periodic larger meetings in different locations. The TSS coordination group takes care of an ongoing reflection on transnational organizing, manages the website, establishes and keeps transnational contacts, discusses our participation in the different projects we support.
For more info write to: info@transnational-strike.info
Transnational-strike.info Projects
Amazon Workers International (AWI) is a transnational coalition of Amazon workers from Poland, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, India, Canada, Japan, and the United States, involved in every-day organizing, coordinated strikes and different forms of struggle. Since 2015, AWI members have been discussing and organizing collectively, coming together every six months in transnational meetings and building a common strategy against Amazon.
Website: https://amworkers.wordpress.com/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AmazonWorkersInternational
Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/amazonworkersinternational/
Email: awi@riseup.net
Climate Class Conflict (CCC) is a TSS’ initiative to bring together workers, unionists, and climate activists who aim to discuss how to confront the manifold effects of the green and energy transition. We believe that only a transnational climate and class movement can transform climate policies in a field of struggle against green capital accumulation, for social justice.
E.A.S.T. (Essential Autonomous Struggles Transnational) is a network composed mostly of women, migrants, workers and activists born out of the struggles on social reproduction triggered by the pandemic crisis of Covid-19. E.A.S.T., as the acronym suggests, has Eastern and Central Europe as its main focus but looks at this specific space as a part of a transnational field of struggle. The network wants to ignite new struggles and strikes against exploitation, male violence and institutional racism by connecting existing struggles and building a common space of organization which overcomes the local and national isolation and fragmentation of single social and labor initiatives.
E.A.S.T facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/EASTEssentialStruggles
Email address: essentialstruggles@gmail.com
The Permanent Assembly Against the War is a political infrastructure composed of activists and workers that aim to grow a collective discussion in the direction of a transnational politics of peace and coordinated initiatives. After Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, we started gathering monthly to confront the war by taking side with people trying to survive in Ukraine and Russia; with people suffering the effects of the war far beyond the affected regions; with people bearing the weight of economic sanctions; with refugees who are escaping from this or any other war seeking for a better life; with workers fighting against exploitation and against the attempt to use this war to implement harsher working conditions; with women and LGBTQ+ people claiming freedom against patriarchal attacks. We made last 1st of May a day of strike against the war, and for a transnational politics of peace. We also published a political Manifesto against the war as we think it brutally reminds us the urgency to practice a transnational politics for a better life against today’s society that reproduces violence, exploitation, and environmental degradation.
More on the PAAW
To subscribe to the mailing list write to: tss-no-war-list-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
The Transnational Migrants Coordination was born out of migrants’ struggles against institutional racism carried on in France and Italy during the spring of 2020. Migrants and collectives involved in TMC soon recognized the importance to coordinate themselves on a transnational scale in order to effectively challenge the racist and violent border regime and immigration policies in Europe and beyond. The TMC now involves migrants and collectives from many countries (Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Turkey, Morocco, Greece…) united by the claim of a European Unconditioned and Unlimited Residence Permit.
Click for the TMC Facebook page
Email: transmigrcoordination@gmail.com
https://worldecology.info/category/towards-an-ecological-general-strike/
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