Funny that they are talking about „larping“, whilst being an apparent member of the „Arbeiterbund“. The organization, that’s stuck in 1920 with all of their actions and that wants to rebuild the KPD, even though we have a literal successor party to the KPD with the DKP already. The Arbeiterbund is known to have some „interesting“ view points.
Don’t worry, the ruling class is actively working to change these things and with the new American ICBMs being stored here starting 2026, Germany will have all the tools for nuclear weapons except the warhead itself. And the coming draft duty is going to supply the staff for these rockets. Germanys claims to power will no more be „claims“ for long…
Did you know, that in the last decade several German ministries have done internal studies showing that even as far up as the 1970s, over half of their employees where still Nazis? Like 2/3 of the foreign ministry where Nazis in 1970, way too many even acting NSDAP members.
Something that hasn’t been mentioned yet: this entire move completely fucks small parties in favor of the big one seen here. The German communist party (DKP) can’t participate at all in this election because they would need to register about 2000 signatures per district to even be allowed to run in those districts. And to add to that, the German system is designed in such a way, that parties get paid by their votes. Meaning that small parties would now need to spend a lot of money without any chance to crowdfund beforehand, and wouldn’t even get that back afterward. This entire move is just a way for the capitalists to realign their priorities with the big parties and make sure, that nothing stands in the way between their grab for even more power in the next years. For anyone who is interested in reading more about this, there is this really good article from the newspaper of the DKP (it’s in German, but you could just translate it using Google Translator or something): https://www.unsere-zeit.de/wem-vertraut-das-kapital-4798734/
That’s like Netflix telling you “hey we didn’t raise our prices enough to keep up with inflation, we’ll now charge you for last 5 year’s inflation in a single payment”
Who cares what these companies think is and isn’t fair? They created this inflation for the past years, they pay for it. And besides that, why do workers need to adhere to a past contract in their current demands? Continuing the strike for a one-time inflation-payment would have been the right choice for the workers, so the union should have done so.
Normally I’d agree with you that this sucks, but aren’t they hourly? Hours reduction means pay reduction. If I was hourly, I’d want the ability to work more hours (AND obviously a higher hourly rate to begin with)
Why does it need to be one or the other? That’s what capitalists want you to think. Why can’t it be an hour reduction and a pay increase together? That’s something that would be great for everyone. Only increasing pay or only decreasing hours is always going to split workers based on their current economic standing. Doing both not only strengthens all the workers, it also positively affects their companionship.
Yeah there’s been bad inflation, but minimum, mean and median wages have NOT increased nearly as fast as they should. Hell the minimum in the US has been unchanged for decades. And plenty of people still make minimum (or less in tipped jobs).
So because the minimum, mean and median wages have NOT increased nearly as fast as they should, we should… checks notes… not fight for better pay?
Not quite sure why people here are that happy about it. If I understand this correctly then this isn’t even enough to cover current inflation, removes their right to strike for the next 6 years, has no hours-reduction, has no single payment to cover the past inflation. I don’t see how this is a win for workers. This seems like a huge win for the companies considering what else would have been possible.
11mg EEn every 14 days is a hell of a dose. I take 3mg every 7 days and am at around 200 pg/ml E2.
A bit off-topic, but is there any good communist manga that you could recommend?
Using the wall to keep GDR citizens in was definitely a big reason. But the context is more complicated. The GDR spend a ton of money on free education that was better than what could be found in the west. People that had some „low quality“ jobs before had the opportunity to become highly skilled members of society, all paid for by the state. That was a huge investment, but worth it for society. However the west targeted this specifically, giving people that went from the GDR to the west huge amounts of free cash.