PEKERJA
KUASA PERUBAHAN
The harrowing rise of scam slavery in Southeast Asia, where hundreds of thousands are trafficked or baited into fortified compounds to conduct forced digital fraud under the threat of torture and death, is not a criminal anomaly, but a symptom of global capitalism in deep decay, fueled especially by a glut of Chinese capital and its intensifying exploitation of a growingly desperate surplus labor force from all over the world.
Rundingan sememangnya boleh menghasilkan kemenangan dan perlindungan, namun terhad jika dijadikan strategi tunggal. Tanpa tekanan industri dari akar umbi pekerja, ia akan tergendala dan seringkali ditunggang oleh bos dan menteri. Maka aksi industri dan mobilisasi bebas daripada majikan dan kerajaan kekal sebagai alat perjuangan utama buat kelas pekerja.
CA CSB ke-6 adalah satu kemenangan sebenar. Ia meningkatkan gaji, memperluaskan perlindungan sosial, dan menyerlahkan kekuatan organisasi pekerja.
Namun ia juga mendedahkan had strategi dan taktik perjuangan sedia ada di bawah sistem kapitalisme. Kerajaan selalu akan berpihak kepada para pemodal. Konsesi hanya akan diperoleh susulan tekanan yang berlarutan.
Oleh itu, perjuangan ke hadapan tidak boleh berhenti di meja rundingan semata-mata. Kita harus memperkukuh organisasi akar umbi pekerja yang mampu merintis jalan perjuangan yang lebih mandiri dan militan.
Between 2015 and 2025, Malaysia witnessed a staggering 17,609 reported rape cases — an average of five rape reports every single day… Only 7,090 of these cases, or roughly 40%, resulted in charges being filed… in an earlier decade only about 16% of reported rape cases were taken to court and only about 2.7% resulted in convictions… formal figures greatly understate the reality because many victims never file reports at all… only around 10% of rape incidents ever reach law enforcement, consistent with about 8–11% globally… Most crucially, a study of 304 sexual assault survivors… found that a large majority (about 76%) of victims were from a low socio‑economic class… Lower‑income individuals often have fewer resources, less social support, weaker bargaining power within households, and reduced access to protective services or legal recourse — all of which materially condition their exposure to violence.
Pada 1 November 2025, Sosialis Alternatif telah mengadakan acara tahunan memperingati Hartal Se-Malaya, yakni mogok umum terbesar dalam sejarah Malaysia, tercetus 78 tahun yang lepas.
Sejarah mencatatkan sepanjang hari pada 20 Oktober 1947, lebih 70% dari keseluruhan jumlah pekerja, merangkumi kesemuanya dari pelbagai sektor perindustrian dan latar belakang yang berlainan, bersama pekerja ladang, pemilik kedai kecil serta pekerja perkhidmatan awam, telah melibatkan diri di dalam aksi hartal tersebut. Dianggarkan kerugian yang terpaksa ditanggung oleh Penjajah British melebihi 4 juta pound, semuanya dalam satu hari sahaja.
On this day 155 years ago, Lenin was born in Tsarist Russia. An unapologetic Marxist and brilliant revolutionary strategist, he lived much of his life as the leader of the Bolshevik Party, which led the Russian working class and peasantry toward the triumphant conclusion of the socialist revolution of October 1917, and the building of the first ever democratic workers’ state in the world. Lenin’s contribution to history cannot be overstated.
“In a planned economy that serves the needs of human beings, there would be no need for such moralistic alternatives to racist quotas as merit, which presupposes in the first place a competitive economy that ultimately serves the needs of the wealthy and powerful. At best it is a coping mechanism on the part of the petty bourgeois who have had trouble dealing with the myth of upward mobility all crumbling down on him at once; at worst it is a cruel insult callously thrown at the workers of the world who feed, clothe, and shelter all of us, and who have brought us all the technological wonders of the world not because, but in spite, of their exploitation.”
The Madani state’s reform agenda has since its rise to power in 2022 turned out to include not only intensifying the exploitation of public health workers via its brutal imposition of one austerity policy after another, but also its continued push for privatization. The lesson could not be any clearer: once the profit motive enters the equation, healthcare ceases to prioritize human need. If the mantle is not taken up by the working class to organize collectively and resist these neoliberal policies, the complete collapse of our public healthcare system becomes not a question of if, but when.
Because PSM does not recognize, as we do, the material fact that the state is nothing more than an instrument of the ruling class—that is, a tool for domination of one class over another—thus it is at best reluctant, and at worst unwilling, to challenge the capitalist state at its core. Instead, its strategy revolves around operating within the constraints of the existing system, lobbying for reforms and seeking the support of progressive liberal allies along the way, promising to curb the excesses of capitalism.
The government can never, and will never, treat our nurses and doctors fairly, so long as it remains pro-capitalist, not pro-worker. This was the case in the BN-UMNO era, and so is it now with this “progressive” Madani state. So long as the capitalist economic system of general labor exploitation remains unchallenged, and so long as capitalist politics remains the order of the day, all public services, healthcare included, can never truly serve the public — laborers and consumers alike.
