The liberal government of the Russian Federation has decided to carry out pension reform. This reform has been under discussion for many years. The adoption of such "unpopular decisions" has been always postponed. And back in 2005, the guarantor of the Russian Federation Constitution, Putin along a "Direct Line" stated: "I am against raising the retirement age. And while I'm president, there will not be such a decision to do so. "
This time, after the failed presidential elections, Putin also along the "Direct Line" made it clear that the retirement age will be raised - "for the sake of raising the incomes of pensioners" (?!). As we see, the guarantor of the constitution is not even the guarantor of his own words.
The government of the Russian Federation proposes to implement a "hard option" of the pension reform - the retirement age for men will be increased by 5 years, for women - by 8 years, that is, up to 65 and 63 years, respectively.
The ruling power understands that holding such a pension reform is fraught with a social explosion. So, according to a poll conducted by FOM against pension reform, 82% of citizens are in favour. Suffice for this it to recall, for example, mass protests in connection with the "monetization" of benefits. Therefore, the government plans to implement the reform in stages over a period of five years.
The liberals all the time are nodding towards the West as some sort of standard of a "welfare society". Like, in European countries, there is similarly a high retirement age. Now Russian pensioners will "go on vacation"(retire) by "democratic" Western European standards. Indeed, in the countries of Western Europe, workers are forced to work up to 65 - 67 years, or even more. With a rapidly aging population, pension is too heavy on capital (although workers receive pensions from hard earned wages - from deductions from wages) for a multimillion-dollar mass of those who are disabled due to old age.
That's just whether Russian workers will survive to retirement age with the life expectancy of the lowest in Russia among other countries? Experts who oppose the reform note that at present about half of the working people do not survive until retirement, and after the implementation of the proposed pension reform, about two-thirds will not live to see it.
The life expectancy in the Russian Federation will increase by the end of the reform - assures the government. It is asked, but at the expense of what? The standard of living falls from year to year, more than 20 million live below the poverty line, the guarantor of the constitution promises everything. Paradox - life does not get better, even worse, and life expectancy grows. Apparently, according to the figures of fake bourgeois statistics.
At the Gaidar forum, the liberals, through the mouths of ex-Minister of Finance Kudrin
"cared" for the well-being of pensioners: "Increasing the retirement age will allow you to index retirement pensions in the following years to a greater extent, that is, in the interests of pensioners." All this is a fraud. The purpose of the pension reform is to rob the working people.
No money in the Pension Fund? With the current system of "black" and "white" wages, the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation receives less from the "employers" trillions of rubles of social contributions. We are not talking about embezzlement and corruption. They say that raising the retirement age will force employees to receive everything "on white". But does it depend on the employee, who has no rights to the "employer", who decides to pay "in white" or "in black", and will continue to pay "in black" to avoid taxes.
To increase the incomes of pensioners? A significant part of pensioners, receiving beggarly pensions, after reaching retirement age continue to work. Now, after the reform, they will not receive pensions, but will only work. Where does revenue increase? And will they work? Factories and plants are closed, agriculture is degrading, unemployment is increasing. Where will they, people aged 60 and 65, find a job? Then the authorities will tell these pensioners - "you have not earned a pension, live as you wish."
Shortly this reform will give the "savings" to the Pension Fund, it is possible that current pensioners will have a raise in their pensions "significantly" (inflation of prices will quickly "eat" it up), but in a generation that will be 60 years old (women) and 65 years (men), and all problems will return, the authorities will find ways to reduce pension payments.
(But the president and the prime minister are guaranteed a pension of 75% of the president's "salary" - more than 500 thousand rubles a month.)
The class essence of this reform is obvious. Capital does not care about caring for the elderly, as about people in general. The unemployable population is a burden to the bourgeoisie - it does not bring profit to it, on the contrary, only losses, or, as economists would say, "unproductive costs". To raise the retirement age means to force the elderly people to work, to generate income, to quickly lose their lives, and to reduce pension payments.
This is the reason for the high retirement age in the capitalist countries of Western Europe.
The low retirement age in the Russian Federation is one of the surviving achievements of socialism in the USSR, which was enshrined in the Constitution of the USSR and - most importantly - guaranteed by a planned socialist social and economic system, lack of unemployment, guaranteed work, decent wages, social and pensions. Pension, which was enough for a decent life, was paid from the state budget.
Under the conditions of the capitalist system, restored after the destruction of the USSR, all the social gains of the working people are eliminated.
We, the All-Union Communist Party of the Bolsheviks, resolutely oppose raising the retirement age and call on all working people to defend their right to a decent life by holding all-Russia mass protests.
Rights are not given - rights are taken away! Or they are fought for!
A.V. Denisyuk
