The Class Struggle Action Network stands in full solidarity with the Amazon workers in
Quebec, Canada, whose unrelenting fight has forced one of the world’s most powerful
corporations to abandon its facilities in the region rather than concede to basic “bread
and roses” demands. Approximately 4,500 workers across seven facilities are now facing
the brutal consequences of Amazon’s ruthless profit-driven retaliation.
This latest display of corporate power—flexing its might to crush attempts at securing
wages and conditions—underscores the enormous task before us. In moments like these,
who among the working class can deny the fundamental reality of our existence: a world
divided between the exploited and the exploiters? We live under a capitalist dictatorship
that demands our endless toil, offers no guarantees of survival, and expects blind faith
in the false promises of the market.
The antisocial, inhuman capitalist pigs need only swat at our long-divided defensive
efforts as if we were but gnats. But we will not be pacified, misled, or deterred. Our
response cannot be a mere “walk around the block” to cool our rage. We must build the
international organizational strength necessary to mount a real challenge. Without a
unified, militant working-class movement—without an international class union—we are
powerless against capital’s global war on workers. It is time to steel ourselves for the
long battles ahead.
To the question “Which side are you on?” We answer with a barbaric, soul-deep cry: we
stand with workers everywhere, against the monstrous system that thrives on lowering
real wages, fueling inflation, waging imperialist wars, and sacrificing workers as cannon
fodder to maintain its dominance.
The events in Quebec expose the harsh truth: companies like Amazon, led by capitalists
like Jeff Bezos, can dismantle an entire regional workforce with ease, wiping out
federally recognized unions that fought for years just to sit at the bargaining table. These
legal frameworks, designed to contain and pacify workers, offer no true power when the
employer can simply shut it all down, absorb the legal costs, and move on.
We cannot afford to rely on legal guarantees and contracts as the foundation of our
struggle. The bourgeois state does not exist to protect us; it exists to protect capital.
Every right won under capitalism is provisional, revocable at the whims of profit. No
contract, no court ruling, no piece of legislation will shield us from the raw power of
capital. Our power lies not in legal recognition but in our ability to disrupt production,
to seize control over our own destiny.
Our path forward is clear. We must build toward a fighting international class
union—one capable of coordinating mass strikes across sectors, across borders, beyond
the limits of existing unions. More than this, we must advance the fight toward a general
strike. This is not a call made lightly; it is a commitment to the organizing, education,
and preparation required to make such an action a reality. The working class cannot win
by simply reacting to each attack; we must move toward collective offensive action
against the system itself.
If you are an Amazon worker—whether in a union or not—who wants to help organize
Amazon workers internationally and build a shared struggle against capital, get in touch
with us. Join the network. Bring your union, caucus, committee, or assembly into the
movement.
We also invite you to bring this statement to your union or worker organization and
move to have it endorsed. We need to make it clear that this struggle is not just an
Amazon struggle—it is a struggle of the entire working class. Every endorsement, though
not enough unto itself to accomplish these great deeds, helps build the foundation for
coordinated, militant action.
The fight against Amazon is the fight of the entire working class. Together, we can turn
isolated struggles into a global force capable of real victories.
In solidarity,
The Class Struggle Action Network
