Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations of Europe
Since April 15, 2008, hundreds of undocumented workers, immigrants without legal residency, have been on strike in the Paris region. They are responding to the call of the CGT [General Federation of Labor] and the associations to obtain legal residency. Those workers have been employed for years in sectors such as hotels, construction, cleaning, etc. The majority of them are on the payroll, they pay social security and many also pay taxes.
Because they do not have papers they are real modern-day slaves in the hands of bosses who, generally, know their situation. After two months of the strike, the French government has been forced to begin a process of regularization for four hundred of them. A great movement of solidarity with the strikers is developing; the retreat of the government is a breach that must be expanded much more.
We support this valiant struggle for the regularization of all
undocumented workers. We make our own the slogan that has been
resounding in the demonstrations: “We work here, we live here, we will
stay here!”
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