Labor Reform as a Class Offensive. The government's efforts to approve and implement a 'labor reform' are not a bolt from the blue. The (counter)reform project is part of a battery of practices, policies, announcements, and trends that shape what we can characterize as an offensive by the dominant class against the working class as a whole. The deep reasons for this offensive must be sought in the problems that capitalists periodically face in realizing their profits and accumulating capital in a more or less stable and durable manner. The increase in the exploitation of labor is at the heart of this restructuring and is the hidden element of 'competitiveness'. In short, it seeks to restore and strengthen the power of capitalists over the working class. Labor Reform as a 'Necessity' of Capital. The deep reasons for this offensive should not be sought in a government, nor even in particular political teams or supposed 'country projects', but in the problems that capitalists periodically face in realizing their profits and accumulating capital in a more or less stable and durable manner. The central point of the reform aims to crystallize in the legal field the greater business discretion to adapt the workday and wages to the ups and downs of production, on the one hand, and to break the tools of union organization and action (the right to strike, protest and organization, protection of union representation, etc.), on the other. Regime spokespeople propagandize that wages and the workday can be 'coordinated' between each worker and each employer, which is a blatant lie, as millions of workers already know and experience daily. Labor Reform: Consequences for the Working Class. To sum up: labor reform is the legal-legal path for the restructuring of capital-labor relations. At the same time, new forms of competition and differentiation among workers are being structured – sectoral, regional, contractual, etc. On the one hand, these changes disorganize the class: the force of certain demands and the effectiveness of some organizational tactics are lost. This affects women in particular, on whom the weight of these tasks has historically fallen. In short, the 'labor reform' is part of a process in which all our working conditions and the conditions for reproducing our lives are under siege. The task of identifying and understanding these trends and their consequences is fundamental for a political-union intervention that allows recomposing forces and rebuilding the collective power of workers over the processes of production. Organization in this area—and the political productivity it entails—is a fundamental aspect in building a strategy that advances in overcoming capitalism as a way of organizing production and the reproduction of society.
