An enemy that is always the same

Our comrades in Croatia distributed this leaflet among workers in struggle.

The year 2025 is slowly coming to an end. It has been a difficult year for workers in Croatia, especially for immigrants. Strikes in the food and beverage sector – at the companies Zvijezda and PIK Vrbovec – lasted for weeks and ended in victory for the workers, leading to the signing of new collective agreements.

Some foreign workers joined these strikes but were soon discouraged by the leadership’s lack of action. But there is no need to be afraid! The bosses are powerless in the face of the workers united. Do not believe the bosses’ lies, you have the right to strike and to organise in the workplace! And even if the capitalist state sides with the bosses, collective action by workers will not fail if it remains united. Centuries of class struggle worldwide demonstrate this fundamental fact.

We should all look on with admiration at Wolt’s delivery workers. Faced with deteriorating working conditions and falling real wages, they organised themselves and coordinated via WhatsApp groups, eventually calling a strike in July. As a result, Wolt’s management was forced to sit down at the negotiating table and start discussions. With the involvement of workers from Croatia and Asia, the delivery workers’ struggle became truly internationalist. Such struggles – based on class interests and not divided by nationality, race or immigration status – are the only way for workers of all backgrounds to achieve better working conditions, higher wages and a better life!

Do not fall into the trap of nationalism and racial division! Do not remain isolated from your class brothers and sisters! Anti-immigrant policies, which pit Croatian workers against foreign workers, are nothing more than propaganda from the bosses, aimed at destroying our class unity.

Delivery workers: organise your colleagues and get in touch with the existing movement! Contact grassroots trade unions for help. Factory, construction and service workers: take note and organise yourselves along internationalist lines! 

The International Communist Party