The PCP defended this Thursday that an “increase in wages does not fall from the sky” and urged the “organized intervention” of the workers for this objective, also defending the taxation of speculative profits.
An increase in wages that does not fall from the sky, must be conquered with the struggle of the workers and with the expansion of the organized intervention of those who with their work create the wealth of the country”, defended Ricardo Costa, member of the Political Commission. of the Central Committee of the PCP, in a statement sent to the press.
for the communist general increase in wages “emerges as a crucial and urgent issue face the strong loss of purchasing power faced by the workers and the people as a consequence of the brutal inflation caused by speculation at the service of the profits of big capital”.
The PCP has proposed that the profits that are being obtained from speculation be taxed through an extraordinary tax and this is increasingly necessary, as the United Nations only recognized yesterday,” said the leader.
The PCP said that “We must go higher” and “end the liberalization” of the economy”regain public control over strategic sectors, abandon speculative price-setting mechanisms, revoke burdensome labor law regulations,” breaking “the path that right-wing politics has imposed on the country.”
Ricardo Costa argued that “the contrast between the euphoria of big capital and the difficulties of most MSMEs is so brutal. [micro, pequenas e médias empresas]which demonstrates the speculative use that economic groups are making of war and sanctions”.
The communist warned of the “disastrous consequences on the living conditions of workers and peoplecrushed by inflation and the incessant increase in basic necessities such as housing, energy and food”.
In an attempt to hide the ongoing process of expropriation by big business of the wealth created by workers, big business uses its fake news media to point the finger at taxes, seeking new tax cuts for them and their profits. Reductions that the Portuguese would inevitably end up paying from their own taxes or from an even greater reduction in public services to which they are entitled”, he defended.
Source: Observadora
