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The workers I talked to said that the problem with these jobs is not just that they’re physical or monotonous—which they are—but, rather, that Amazon puts an incredible amount of pressure on people to continue to work faster and faster. Many of the employees mentioned the fear of being “written up” and losing their jobs, which will thrust them into other low-paid jobs with fewer benefits. If pickers don’t grab an item in a certain amount of time, they get written up. If they take too long a bathroom break, they get written up. If they’re not walking as fast or performing as well as the majority of employees, they get written up. “You constantly feel like, ‘I’m not doing enough, I need to do a little more,’ and that’s their business model,” Burgett said. “The constant trying to chase your rate, trying to stay ahead of being written up—it affects you psychologically.” This pressure is not limited to warehouse workers; a 2015 New York Times storydetailed a corporate culture where white-collar workers were pushed psychologically as well.

Another man, a former carpenter who works in the stow department in Moreno Valley who didn’t want his name used because he still works for Amazon, said that without warning, Amazon changed the amount of time workers had to stow an item from six minutes to four minutes and 12 seconds. “They make it like the Hunger Games,” he said. “That’s what we actually call it.” Workers are competing against an average time, and so they are, in essence, competing against each other. Those who can’t keep up are written up and then fired, he said.

In light of what has transpired these past five days within the leftist domains of this website we would like to deliver a concise statement in hopes of directing this conversation in a way that roots out and directs social pressure upon the male chauvinists, the rapist apologists, and misogynists that plague and a form a base of reactionary undesirables that be must fiercely combated with no mercy.

We would also like to express our utmost solidarity and support towards victims of rape, and especially those that have been affected during the course of almost a week by the continuous ceaseless hounding, harassment by vile scum such as sobercommunist and his allies (cultural-gulagist,bangawang,among others).

The left, whether it is communists, anarchists, marxists, marxians, left-communists, or any other tendency where organisations are entirely composed by men bear the stain of patriarchy: misogyny, rape, and other forms of socio-economic violence.

Back in March 2017, we published an open letter to both Red Guards Austin (an u$ organisation) and Tjen Folket (Serve the People - Norway) - organisations which are known for collaborating with each other in small projects and having a direct relation - regarding their actions towards a comrade member of the Tjen Folket organisation who was raped by another member. Instead of siding with the victim, Tjen Folket chose to suspend the victim and maintain the rapist among its ranks. This matter was brought within the social channels of the Red Guards Austin, to which the leadership answered with suppression and censorship of any criticism. They went as so far as to indirectly reply to our letter with this embarrassing denunciation of ‘identity politics’. This is a recurring problem within leftists organisations, and one that continues unanswered today.

The past five days we have witnessed some of the vilest, most disturbing examples of this ‘left’ once again defending the aggressors, and not the victims of rape.

Victims of rape have been compared to cops for wanting their rapists to be executed

Victims of rape have been compared to reactionaries/nazis/psychopaths for wishing for the execution of their rapists

Victims of rape have been continuously ignored and dismissed by ‘marxists’ who uphold idealist utopian theories of prison abolishment under a capitalist society, which rejects historical materialism or the study of history itself.

Victims of rape have been compared to KKK and their arguments actively misconstrued as calling for “lynching mobs”.

Victims of rape have been actively alienated, attacked, and shown little to no support in the face of overwhelming psychological warfare by misogynistic rape apologists.

Victims of rape have been told they should make amends with their assailants and that rapists are also victims too.

Victims of rape have been told that the spirituality of rape apologists and the fact they sympathise with rapists should be prioritised, not the protection of victims of rape.

You know who these ‘leftists’ are, they are our enemies, they are the enemies of victims of rape, they are the enemies of women, they should treated with the same regard as assailants themselves: through strong condemnation, social alienation, and revolutionary violence. We stand with victims of rape when they say they want their rapists to be executed, and it’s our role as communists to ensure the protection of victims of rape through organisation and mass work against those who represent an obvious reactionary wing of leftism.