Young Communists and activists in a range of unions, have been campaign­ing for two years to bring the issue of EU Free Trade Agreements to the wider public. Parliament is pretending Mode Four is not happening. The Government, and possibly the TUC, is actively supporting it and trying to cover its tracks.

The TUC’s call for a pay cut for workers earning the minimum wage has been accepted by the government. The TUC had requested that the National Minimum Wage be increased by 3%, far below inflation, whilst workers wait for economic growth ie. more profitable monopolies.  Consequently the full rate of the NMW has been increased by 2.5%, the rate of 18-20 year olds has been increased by 1.2% and the rate for 16 & 17 year olds by just 1%.

Inflation for September 2011 stands at 5.6% and that is the minimum amount by which the cost of living has increased.

YCL Acting General Secretary, Mick Carty, said that “the least young workers can accept is a TUC that promotes their interests not one which ignores the fundamental class antagonism in society and continues to attempt to find a compromise with the monopolies”.

WFDY expresses its solidarity and salutes the massive demonstrations organized by the Greek workers, people and youth, the class oriented trade unions and PAME (All Workers Militant Front) against the reactionary measures planned in common by the Greek government, EU and IMF. We condemn the organized murderous attack against the forces of the All-Workers' Militant Front (PAME), that led to several serious injuries and to the death of a construction worker, trade unionist of PAME.

The people’s-labour movement has the strength to face the provocateur mechanisms of the bourgeois system

The murderous attack unleashed by anarcho-fascist groups against the enormous rally which was organized by the class-oriented trade unions, rallied in the All-workers’ Militant Front (PAME) in opposition to the new anti-people measures of the government, made the news on a global scale. Nevertheless, there were many attempts by the bourgeois media to distort the facts.