Declaration of the PCRCI on the Crisis in Education

(March 19, 2019)

For almost two months, the Ivorian school has been in turmoil. In fact, the school’s partner trade union organizations have filed a series of legitimate demands of which the housing allowance is the backbone.

In response, the government is pursuing union officials, jailing them, suspending their salaries and even freezing the bank accounts of all strikers to force them to resume classes. No concrete proposal has been made to the unions besides the brutal, illegal force of an exhausted power.

Under what laws of the republic can the government order the freezing of the bank accounts of the strikers? By disregarding the laws in the actions that it carries out, the power of Ouattara undoubtedly is sinking into despotism.

That is why the Revolutionary Communist Party of the Ivory Coast (PCRCI), in constant fight against the dictatorial shifts, the violations of the rights of the workers,

• Firmly condemns these barbaric and reactionary practices of the Ouattara government that belong to another age.
• Condemns and denounces this dictatorship against the teachers.
• Condemns and strongly denounces the banks that condone and participate in this violation of workers’ rights.
• Calls on the trade union organizations and the victims of this barbarity to appeal to the courts for reparations.
• Supports the legitimate struggle of the unions for the betterment of their members.
• Calls on the Ouattara government to change course and stop all forms of threats and intimidation against the workers.
• Calls on the Ouattara government to deal with the legitimate demands of the trade union organizations

The Secretary General
Ekissi Achy.
Abidjan.

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