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Demi kepentingan segelintir kapitalis/pemilik modal, akhirnya rakyat yang menderita. Alternative to oppressive Capitalist Globalization is Possible Now the relevant question that is posed before everybody in which path the trade union movement should advance in such unprecedentedly critical international and national situation when ferocious offensive is directed against the working people of all sectors. Is there no way out from this situation which seeks to ruin the toiling people and enrich only a very minor section of the population? What the working people should do to save themselves and the entire exploited sections of the people from unemployment, depressing wage level, drastic cut in all social security measures, hunger and impoverishment of the overwhelming sections of the people? Is this spate of privatization, closure, downsizing, retrenchment, extreme misery coupled with reckless suppression of trade union movement and trade union rights inevitable? Is the victory of international finance capital and unbridled rule of the monopoly and multinational capital irreversible? These are the questions being asked by the harassed toiling people in the entire capitalist world. There is No Alternative (TINA) that was the reply to these life and death questions given by former Prime Minister of Great Britain, Ms Margaret Thatcher about a decade ago when as the supreme ruler of that country she privatized all public sector industries, closed down the coal mines, cruelly suppressed the British mine workers resistance, privatized almost the entire British health services a pride of the past, cut down all social security measures of the government employees and other sections of the working class and drastically reduced government expenditure by cutting down the number of government employees. According to her the measures taken by her government were inevitable and have to be accepted and so there is no alternative. Since then this notorious phrase coined by Ms Thatcher has become the watchword of all capitalist rulers of the world. The economic and social policies that are being vigorously pursued by these rulers, of course are immensely benefiting the monopolists and the multinational companies along with a small section of the intellectuals and privileged strata who have been reduced to just hangers-on of the predatory and exploitative capitalist ideology. But this same policy has reduced and degraded the overwhelming majority of humanity not only to a miserable but to a dehumanized condition. The global finance capital now wants to turn the entire world into a zone for its free play, for its own enrichment while reducing the 90% of the population to a degraded State. So profit and more profit, money and more money have become the mantras no matter what happens to the common people. Sometimes people ask what is a capitalist ideology? To explain it, no theory is necessary, in practice capitalism in its present ferocious phase of globalization has shown to the entire world what it is. Contrary to the capitalist propaganda, definitely there is alternative the alternative economic and social system which can save not only the toiling people but the entire humanity. But in India the government at the Centre and most of the State governments over the years have accepted the policy of liberalization, privatization, casualization, home-based work, retrenchment and import of foreign goods and wide entry of multinationals which in one word called globalization the only policy available that each successive government is implementing with competitive zeal. Presently, the government has announced, as mentioned hard economic decisions without bothering how adversely it may affect the people. As already Stated, the government is privatizing even the profit-making and very efficient public sectors, selling their shares at surprisingly cheaper rates to the local monopolies and foreign multinationals and taking further decisions to close down many units, drastically downsizing the public services. Government of India is recklessly moving towards implementing all orders coming from their masters World Bank-IMF and WTO and the imperialist countries. What is the net result? According to official statistics, nearly 50% of Indian people are below poverty line; according to ILO report India possesses the largest number of child labour; according to UNDP and World Development Report, India possesses the largest share of illiterate people; worlds largest number of blind persons because of malnutrition or otherwise are Indians. And according to recent ILO estimate, about one-third of the Indian people are unemployed or almost unemployed the grimmest of grim picture so far as joblessness is concerned. Moreover, according to recent survey by United Nations, India is one of the topmost countries riddled with corruption. But at the same time according to various estimates India has also a dozen of rich family who are counted among the richest of people in the whole world and the total assets of the Indian monopoly capitalists are ascending at a break-neck speed. And as already stated, according to UNDP and World Development Report and also the World Bank the biggest performance of globalization is that during this period of globalization is the gap between the rich and the poor that is rapidly increasing a small section is being more and more enriched while the overwhelming majority is becoming poorer and poorer. In Indias situation this contrast is more pronounced. If we look at the issue of overall human development during this period of globalization, say for India, access to education and health are becoming more and more expensive to the common people because of rapid privatization of education and health sectors. Take for example the social and cultural sphere in India, it is more and more being dominated by selfish and greedy capitalist values of self-aggrandizement without bothering for the others. The print media and electronic media are fully controlled by imperialist and capitalist ideology of decadence and all retrograde and reactionary cultural and social ethos. The media untiringly launches a jehad against all progressive forces and the trade unions or any other progressive institutions, naked propagation of all sorts of crime, rape, use of women as commodities for the market and all perverse and morbid values is totally vitiating the mind of not only the younger generation, but almost the entire population. Media provokes the worker to be anti-trade union, preaches for a trade-union-free society, a society without any resistance to exploitation and repression and thus demoralise the entire working people. That is why they preach in a calculated way all irrational and unscientific world outlook to keep the people tied with traditional legacies. The imperialists not only buy up the media, they buy up even a big section of the intellectuals and academicians to obediently work as their hatchet-men. And we are now living in such a society. And today, the Government has brought the country to the brink of ruin. During the last 10 years tens of thousands of workers and employees have lost their jobs. Unemployment is reaching astronomical figures. Those who are employed are losing their permanent and regular character. Contract jobs with fixed pay have become the order of the day. Now full attempts are going on to deprive the employees from all earlier economic benefits. Wage freeze is no more just a talk today. All attempts are being made to implement it. Hundreds of factories are being shut down throwing thousands of workers on the streets. Whatever new industries are coming up are all high-tech ones and scanty number of employees and higher grade staff and that too on contract basis without any limitation of working hours. Actually whatever the workers realized after May Day events in Chicago in 1886 eight hours duty, regular work, security of jobs, social security measures are now a vanishing phenomenon, thanks to the philosophy of globalization It is now all for profits be it industrial product, be it education or medicare or water for the farmers or road and bridges for the common people. Everything is now based on profits. This is World Bank-IMF philosophy. Moreover, this globalization has brought naked egoistic attitude in its wake, which make people selfish and reckless consumerist. Traditional and human qualities and values of life are being pushed to the background and instead ego-centric lust for perverted selfish enjoyment are being brought in the forefront. Whatever is beautiful is given a go-bye and whatever is ugly and rotting are being given indulgence to. This is the contribution of globalization in human civilization. In fact our trade union movement is direct victim of these egoistic, selfish and ugly values of life in the age of globalization. It is a matter of great pleasure and pride that when a number of intellectuals of the country have abjectly surrendered to all imperialist and decadent values, right from United States to India, at least some have come out openly to raise their voice against this imperialist rampage. http://www.tradeunionindia.org/miscellaneous/movement2.htm Ingin belajar Islam? Mari bergabung milis Media Dakwah Kirim email ke: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Yahoo! 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