“We have agreed that trade unions will be established at all private enterprises by the end of 2020. This issue should be handled by the end of the year,” the head of state said.
Homie is threatening to shut down any businesses that aren't unionized lol. Chad move
The left in Belarus is pro-government, mostly represented by the Communist Party. It certainly doesn't look anything like the western left but nothing like that exists there. There are pro-Russia conservatives, pro-western neoliberals, the Communists and independent conservatives (majority of government). The trade unions favor the government because they don't want their factories sold to western capital. It will be a while before they are antagonistic to the National Bourgeoisie.
A bit of both. Some of the policies are maintaining relatively strong state-owned enterprises and government services. The anti-imperialism mainly stems from a fear that the government could open up to western capital which would gut the state enterprises and sell them for parts. If I had to guess, the Communists see anti-imperialism and domestic policy as being in a dialectical relationship. Moderation of Communist parties and engaging in a United Front with the National Bourgeoisie is a common phenomenon in places that are either under the imperial boot, or are threatened by it. It's a shitty situation but they know they can't start a revolution or stage a Communist coup while the west is banging on their front door.
Moderation of Communist parties and engaging in a United Front with the National Bourgeoisie is a common phenomenon in places that are either under the imperial boot, or are threatened by it
Well it's definitely a thing where i live but here a lot of communists broke with the party for the exact same reason, most younger communists think they're out of touch clowns, so the party is basically dying and there are lots of fragmented smaller organizations.
I mean it surely doesn't help that - at least here - the state owned businesses are just as gutted as the private ones.
Are you saying you live in Belarus or another Euro country with Communists in Parliament? Just curious because I haven't spoken to anyone from there about this, just commies from Poland and Greece who have a better perspective than most in the US have. Still not as good of a perspective as someone actually in Belarus though.
I live in Hungary. No commies in the parliament and they won't be allowed to get in until Orbán croaks at best. The situation is kinda similar tho because he's also playing this waltz between the west and the Russia-China axis (probably gonna move to the latter in the next years heavily) and he also has a national bourgeoisie built up of his friends who are basically used to get privatised enterprises back to the orbit of the government. What i wrote originally - that government mandated unions can be used against a leftist movement as well - is based on my perceived similarities between the two systems and seeing how Fidesz has put their own cadres into unions so it's nearly impossible to get any strikes to be organized which might be useful in an anti-imperialist struggle, but if we're looking at the bigger picture, it only harms working class movements.
And he can do the same when the left gets stronger.
The left in Belarus is pro-government, mostly represented by the Communist Party. It certainly doesn't look anything like the western left but nothing like that exists there. There are pro-Russia conservatives, pro-western neoliberals, the Communists and independent conservatives (majority of government). The trade unions favor the government because they don't want their factories sold to western capital. It will be a while before they are antagonistic to the National Bourgeoisie.
Are they pro government because anti-imperialism or because they genuinely support the governments policies?
A bit of both. Some of the policies are maintaining relatively strong state-owned enterprises and government services. The anti-imperialism mainly stems from a fear that the government could open up to western capital which would gut the state enterprises and sell them for parts. If I had to guess, the Communists see anti-imperialism and domestic policy as being in a dialectical relationship. Moderation of Communist parties and engaging in a United Front with the National Bourgeoisie is a common phenomenon in places that are either under the imperial boot, or are threatened by it. It's a shitty situation but they know they can't start a revolution or stage a Communist coup while the west is banging on their front door.
Well it's definitely a thing where i live but here a lot of communists broke with the party for the exact same reason, most younger communists think they're out of touch clowns, so the party is basically dying and there are lots of fragmented smaller organizations.
I mean it surely doesn't help that - at least here - the state owned businesses are just as gutted as the private ones.
Are you saying you live in Belarus or another Euro country with Communists in Parliament? Just curious because I haven't spoken to anyone from there about this, just commies from Poland and Greece who have a better perspective than most in the US have. Still not as good of a perspective as someone actually in Belarus though.
I live in Hungary. No commies in the parliament and they won't be allowed to get in until Orbán croaks at best. The situation is kinda similar tho because he's also playing this waltz between the west and the Russia-China axis (probably gonna move to the latter in the next years heavily) and he also has a national bourgeoisie built up of his friends who are basically used to get privatised enterprises back to the orbit of the government. What i wrote originally - that government mandated unions can be used against a leftist movement as well - is based on my perceived similarities between the two systems and seeing how Fidesz has put their own cadres into unions so it's nearly impossible to get any strikes to be organized which might be useful in an anti-imperialist struggle, but if we're looking at the bigger picture, it only harms working class movements.