INCOMETAX
PENSIONER FEDERATION
Manishinath
Bhawan
A/2/95 Rajouri Garden,
New Delhi. 110 027
Website: Itpf.blogspot.com
E mail. itpfchq@gmail.com
President:
Com. Umesh Mehta
Secretary
General. Com. K.K.N.
Kutty
Dated: 10th
September, 2020.
Dear Comrade:
OBSERVE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR OLD AND
RETIREES.
We send herewith copy of the circular letter of NCCPA on the above
subject. It is the decision of the
United Nations to observe 1st Ocfober every year as the
international day for old and retirees .
The circular letter of NCCPA appended hereunder explains the
significance thereof and the call for the observance of the day has come from
the world federation of trade unions, Heeding to the call, the pensioners and retirees all over the world would be
observing it through holding demonstration etc. for an hour on 1st
October, 2020. We must be proud
participants in the programme and on behalf of the National Sectt of ITPF, I request
you to kindly take steps to enlist the participation of all our members in the
programme despite the difficulties caused by the pandemic but abiding by all
the directives of the Govt.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
KKN Kutty
Secretary General.
NATIONAL CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEE
OF PENSIONERS ASSOCIATIONS..
Website: nccpahq.blogspot.in.
E mail: nccpahq@gmail.com.
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New Delhi. 110 001
PRESIDENT:
COM.SHIV GOPAL MISHRA.(97176 47594)
SECy.
GENERAL: COM.K.K.N.KUTTY.
(98110 483030)
Dated: 10th September, 2020
To
All the affiliates, State Committees, CGPAs, State
Cocs.
Dear Comrades,
INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR OLDER PERSONS.
OCTOBER IST.
OR DAY OF ELDERLY.
We send herewith the circular letter from the
General Secretary, TUI (Pensioners and Retirees) of the World Federation of
Trade Unions written in connection with the observance of International day for
older persons . Throughout the world the retirees and pensioners observe Ist
October as a day of solidarity with all
those who fight against exploitation. It
is also to express solidarity with all old people to ensure that the well-being
of senior citizens is the responsibility of the society. To have a decent standard of living and well
looked-after old age is considered an inalienable human right. Unfortunately few countries and fewer
governments have recognised this right
of the old people. The welfare society concept in fact came into being in the
capitalist society to ward off the threat from the socialist ideology which was
pervading in a major segments of the world in the beginning of the 20th
Century. Now that they could obliterate
that threat by foul machinations, In
most of the countries the senior citizens are driven to a wretched life. The world is now fed with the eulogy of free
market, global economy, higher GDP growth rate, mega corporates, super profits
and the consequent tickle down effect to serve the people and rescue from the
misery and agony. The greater the
inequality , prosperous the country is the new propounded theory. In our own country, social security and
pension payment was considered a drain on the economy and a wasteful
expenditure. The next generation civil
servants in the country shall live their retired life in uncertainty and penury
as even their hard earned income would have been gobbled up by the so called
mega corporations with the tacit help rendered by a Government elected by the
same people in the hope that it will look after them.
It was the avalanche of the renewed idea of
exploitation that has compelled many countries to make a relook into their
social security system and ensure its demolition as has happened in our own
country. They are mocking at the person
who made the chair in which the ruler is today sitting. Observance of this day is to rededicate
ourselves to the cause of a struggle to bring in a society sans exploitation;
to have a better evening in the life of a human being and a non-dependent existence.
The world Federation of Trade Unions and the Trade
Union International ( P&R) have
called upon us to observe Ist October,
2020 in an appropriate manner. Not forgetting that we are in the midst of a
deadly disease called corona virus covid 19 pandemic, we call upon our
affiliates, State CoCs CGPAs and our members to organise demonstration by
holding the placard, (specimen depicted hereunder) at-least for an hour. We
know that this is a small step in the direction of the realisation of our dream
– a world sans exploitation- but we are confident from our own experience that
our small steps early in our life has enabled us to leap into giant
strides.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
K.K.N. KUTTY
Secretary General.
Copy of letter from:
THE TUI OF P&RPREPARES THE ACTIONS FOR OCTOBER 1st,
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF STRUGGLE FOR THE RIGHTS OF PENSIONERS AND RETIRED PERSONS
(P&R)
October 1st was
established by the UN as International Day of Older Persons, or also Day of the
Elderly. Since the creation of the International Union of Trade Unions (TUI) of
Pensioners and Retirees of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), this
date has become a world day to fight against exploitation, due to the
requirement to defend the rights of pensioners and retirees, for a decent life
based on the wealth that the working class produces every day with its work.
Once again, from the WFTU TUI
of the WFTU, we call all our organizations and friendly organizations to
action, in order to make next October 1st a day of vindication and
fight for the rights of those who have already reached retirement and for the
right to worthily retire for those who have not yet reached this stage of life,
whether their activity has been carried out in the formal economy or in the
informal economy.
It is an inalienable human
right that, after a life of work, people of working class and popular
extraction can leave their habitual activity and live with dignity. We qualify
a decent life as one in which, thanks to the retirement pension or the income
to which one is entitled, sufficient resources are available, such as habitable
housing, drinking water, healthy food and health care, culture, leisure and
free, quality public commuter transportation. Today there is enough wealth on
the planet for all this; it is only enough to distribute it fairly, instead of
spending it in imperialist wars.
However, the reality is very
different and many people who should have reached retirement must continue
working because they do not have access to a sufficient pension, while many of
those who have retired cannot have a decent life, a situation that worsens in
the case of those who have been unemployed for a time or have worked all or
part of their lives in the underground economy or in caring for other people,
something that especially affects women.
The real and fundamental cause
is the capitalist, unfair and exploitative mode of production, strengthened
after the temporary defeat of the socialist countries. Currently, the
capitalist governments are promoting new anti-worker measures, against
pensioners, the working class and the people. In general, the working life is
extended, the years of contribution are increased to be entitled to a pension
and the amount received is decreased, all with the final objective of
privatizing pensions and converting into another business for financial
capital, what should be a universal right. That is the meaning of the existence
and extension of the Pension Fund Administration entities (AFP) in numerous
countries and the approval, by the European Union, of the so-called European
Personal Pension Plan (PEPP), which as TUI of P&R of the WFTU We have
denounced (in Europe the First European Action of the P&R was held on June
17).
In the name of capitalist
competitiveness, retired people and pensioners around the world experience the
worsening of their living conditions and those of their descendants, while
social goods are commercialized and bloody conflicts and wars are promoted
(with money from all citizens) imperialists.
Against all this, we call for coordinated
international action on October 1. We will fight with unity and common action as
the working class, the people and those who suffer capitalist exploitation, for
our immediate objectives, but always with the perspective of a society without
exploitation, oppression, poverty, war or calamities.
Every October 1st
we will demand that a decent job is guaranteed for all people, adapted to their
abilities, that allows them to live with dignity and generate a decent pension
or, if this fails, that the state budgets assign them a decent pension. without
the humiliating adjective of "non-contributory".
Every October 1st we
will go out to the streets to approve, in the laws and constitutions of the
countries, the obligation of the states to ensure, through public budgets,
pensions that allow all people to retire from their jobs and live worthily.
LONG LIVE THE FIGHT DAY OF OCTOBER 1st!
LET'S ALL PARTICIPATE IN IT!
July 2,020
TUI (International Union of Trade Unions) of Pensioners
and Retirees (P&R) of the WFTU.
