12:00
starting point: Opernplatz, Kassel
Am 1. May we demonstrate for a corona policy based on solidarity, because social solidarity encompasses more than the restriction of social contacts in private!
This pandemic shows us every day the vulnerability of human life. At the same time, we get a very clear demonstration: For the maintenance of "our economy", as securing corporate profits is often called, state and capital are ready, to go over human life. Because: The number of infections is increasing, the intensive care units are almost full and the number of people who have died of Covid-19 continues to increase. All warnings and calls for help from the college active in the health sector:inside and their associations are ignored. During every encounter, every contact in private is declared to be dangerous, will be the effective implementation of the work- and health protection in the economy is largely at the discretion of companies, so that good 40 Millions of employees have to go about their work every day and put themselves and others in danger.
For some of us, working in pandemic conditions means working from home, in which it is sometimes more stressful, sometimes slows down. The possibility of working from home depends on the professional activity: The higher the qualification of the employees, the sooner home office is possible. Who cannot work from home, takes the public transport to work and meets his colleagues there:within. The threat to health and life is a class issue. Regardless of their professional position, women continue to bear the brunt of unpaid reproductive work and have long since reached the limits of their resilience in the home office.
The pandemic and its political processing hit those hardest, who were already more vulnerable before and suffered in a special way from normal capitalist operations: Armed, Migrant * within, Refugees and the unemployed.
Meanwhile, the capital is supported with aid packages worth billions from public money and with it the privileged social position of entrepreneurs:secured inside, in order to make profits on the backs of the employees even after the pandemic. At the same time, many people will be busy with it, to get out of the financial hardship, into which they got through short-time work and unemployment. All the uncertainty weighs on the employees.
On the other hand, we are calling for a significant improvement in working conditions in all areas, and there in particular, where socially necessary work is done, in the hospitals, in nursing, in grocery stores, in the Kitas. More wages! More staff! Less working time! Guarantee of effective protection against infection! An effective protection of the most vulnerable groups in society. Finally, the immediate shutdown of socially unnecessary work with full wages! Lock Work Down!
On International Workers' Day:We call on indoor class to do so, to demonstrate together in solidarity for a different policy.
For fighting a pandemic, that deserves this name, we therefore demand: Lock Work Down! For a corona policy based on solidarity. Radical reduction in working hours now!
Demonstration: 1. May 2021, from 12:00 Clock, meeting point: Opernplatz, Kassel.
Before: From 10:30 Clock rally of the DGB on the Königsplatz. Come to the 4-hour league block!
The following applies to the demo: Mask requirement, Keep your distance and test yourself if possible.