29S -The struggle is in the street, towards a general strike!

Throughout summer, various union organisations across the federalist
sphere – such as the CGT, CNT, COBAS, CSC and Solidaridad Obrera – have
held various meetings in order to put into motion a mobilised response,
based on the unity of action and class, towards the end of a General
Strike against the cuts and loss of rights put in place by both the
government and European institutions and upon the orders of the bosses
and the markets.
With the deepening of the cuts, reforms and attacks against workers
throughout this summer, coupled with the disinclination of the
institutional unions to offer a real and necessary response to them, we
reiterate that we’re convinced that the moment has arrived to go out on
the streets and say, “ENOUGH!” – putting in motion, with no further
delay, the push towards a general strike that has the capacity to
confront the current capitalist offensive as well as advancing the
seizure of new social rights.

To this end – following the most recent meeting of union organisations
on 2 Sept – we call for a day of action on the 29th under the slogan of
“THE STRUGGLE IS IN THE STREETS – TOWARDS A GENERAL STRIKE”; to which
we openly invite all union organisations, workers’ collectives and
social movements from all regions and sectors who want to make this
callout their own and break with the CCOO’s and UGT’s policies of
social partnership and demobilisation.
This process has already begun, including – as it did in the most
recent meeting – the participation of various local and industrial
organisations such as ASSI Zaragoza, Sindicato Asambleario de Sanidad de
Madrid and the working group for the General Strike from 15M Madrid,
and we now want to extend the call to any union organisation from any
region or background which shares the necessity to build for the
mobilisation towards a general strike on these premises.
To this end, next 17 Sept will see another meeting with a variety of
union organisations, with the intention of broadening the unified and
necessary class-based response and the aim of continuing to unify our
efforts for a workers’ solution to the crisis, working together to
prepare a general strike.
To this end, next 24 Sept we will hold a public debate, streamed over
the internet, between various union organisations, about the current
situation of the working class, the responses and the alternatives to be
developed.
We call on workers – be they employed or unemployed – students, all
those who are affected by the cuts to public services, the social
movements, those in the square and neighbourhood assemblies who share
the need to mobilise for a general strike, to participate in and take
ownership of this callout, to come out onto the streets on 29S, to
spread the word in workplaces, neighbourhoods and towns, in order to
make it effective and real throughout different localities and regions.
Similarly, we call on people to support the previously announced mobilisations by education workers and public health workers.