From Elpica
Asbestos Found in Chinese thermos. The news disclosed by TG 1 de July 13, comes from the Directorate-General for "Harmonization Market and Consumer Protection in the Ministry of Economic Development. The Nas and competent ASL has seized a large quantity.
Undoubtedly it is competition that forces them to keep pressure on Chinese products, but the official reason is that the thermos tablets contain asbestos, which function to absorb the difference in indoor / outdoor temperature prevents the glass container breaks, whereby the commodity use-value without which there would be no exchange value. The official explanation, complete with a television service, gave workers the "certainty" that the military health care and observe the law, which was however rejected a thousand times construction sites and factories, in this case is No. 257 of 1992 which banned the use and marketing of products containing asbestos.
There are many times we've written on this issue, both for the appearance of the counter on the truth of this dangerous material, which dates back to the far 1935, when epidemiological studies in the U.S. is supportive of its relationship with tumor of the pleura - Mesothelioma - and above all to organize the movement of workers to asbestos.
The Chronicles of judgments that the workers are managing to pull in the latter period, while it will never do justice to their premature death, di sicuro dimostrano una capacità di critica alle organizzazioni politiche e sindacali, che, per quanto sia risultata limitata, ha dato un preciso segnale alla necessità di non delegare a nessuno i propri interessi, specie ora che non c’è la necessità per il capitalismo di confondere le ristrutturazioni degli esuberi con la salute degli operai.
La notizia che viene dai prodotti cinesi, se da un lato può far comprendere cosa sia lo sviluppo capitalistico e le sofferenze che gli operai cinesi saranno costretti a patire, ripropone nel nostro paese la domanda: perché l’amianto è stato bandito per legge dello Stato?
La risposta di chi interpreta il marxismo secondo lo schema della riproduzione semplice, quindi the contradictions which arise between the workers and the capitalist or between them and the cost of raw materials, can not answer this question, just to reiterate that asbestos was replaced because it no longer economical. So the state is reduced to political executor of particular interest, the asbestos industry. So the collective interests of the capitalist class, although you do compete against each other disappear, and can not take any meaning, since, in conception of what it was canceled before it was precisely the mechanism of production and expanded reproduction of capital, which for its social character can not exist without the state and the state has no reason to exist without social relationships in the perennial conflict between private interest and social wealth.
setting, as economist, who wants to explain the replacement of asbestos from the production process because it would become more expensive to the material that they replaced, does not hold. Because if this were true, the replacement of asbestos material would impose on the market in a spontaneous way, ie without the intervention of the state.
There are data, though dating back to 2003, confirm that, despite economic concerns of the thesis, that asbestos is still produced and used. In fact, among the major countries produttori extraeuropei, insieme a Russia e Cina, che hanno sfornato rispettivamente 700.000 e 450.000 tonnellate, c'è il Canada, che con le sue 335.000 tonnellate prodotte ha mobilitato la sua diplomazia per far pressione all’Europa per ripristinare l’uso dell’amianto, e con ciò stesso sconfessando anche l’altra tesi a sostegno dell’economista, cioè che i costi di trasporto contribuirebbero a fare dell’amianto un materiale più costoso di quelli sostitutivi.
Fu nel 1998, a sei anni di distanza dalla legge italiana e su proposta dei Paesi Bassi, che la maggioranza dei paesi della Comunità Europea (dodici su quindici) si pronunciò a favore della proibizione totale dell’uso dell’amianto. The states that voted against were: Greece, the first European producer of asbestos, Spain and Portugal, major users of this material.
back at the news that come from Chinese thermos, manufacturers of that country would be stupid because they use more expensive materials, highly dangerous, and the premise of future conflicts with the workers.
The news, however, more important is that relating to the profits from the production of asbestos, that nine years after the law while 257 are still there, although the fears that swing to generate recognition of the disease, we are offered Article 11 of the Sole-24 Ore in December 2001:
“ In scivolata sull’amianto
Zurigo. Proseguono i cambi al vertice di Abb, che lanciano ombre sul futuro del colosso di engineering. Peter Voser, sarà, dal secondo trimestre 2002, il nuovo responsabile finanziario del gruppo svizzero-svedese ed entrerà a far parte della commissione esecutiva della holding. Voser, che ricopre attualmente la stessa carica nella Shell Worldwide Oil Products, rimpiazzerà Renato Fassbind. Il cambio arriva a poche settimane dalle dimissioni a sorpresa del presidente “storico” Percy Barnevik, l’artefice della nascita del colosso europeo dalla fusione tra la svedese Asea e la svizzera Brown Boveri nell’88. Ma a far scivolare le quotazioni di Abb, che, dopo aver perso oltre il 10%, hanno chiuso a Zurigo a 17,30 franchi (- 8,22%), sono stati anche i timori legati all’amianto. Le preoccupazioni sono state innescate dalla caduta a picco dei rivali americani della Halliburton, che hanno perso il 40% venerdì e ieri un altro 15% sull’onda dei rischi finanziari legati alle richieste di risarcimenti correlati all’utilizzo dell’amianto.”
Come si può notare, le cifre sull’andamento dei profitti azionari legati all’amianto, anche se mostrano una diminuzione a causa dei risarcimenti che gli operai richiedono, dimostrano che l’amianto è un materiale ancora in uso perché ancora economicamente insostituibile.
I padroni sono costretti ad abbandonarlo not "When the cost of asbestos becomes too high, it is a fact that imposes itself as always in a spontaneous way in the competition between capitalists, which does not raise significant problems to the criticism, but to criticize a good post , and then use value for the historical way in which it was produced. Instead
Italian masters have left only after the asbestos and disease claimed many victims to be compensated, but mostly just after the workers faced with a will to action.
And, these bosses have been forced by the state, because too many had to pay reparations. To industry was a compelling advantage, because with the excuse Asbestos State gave him thousands of billions on restructuring.
If other countries continue not only to remove it, but even to work, not the humanity of their masters or the state to prohibit the manufacture, nor the existence of a phantom replacement materials cheaper, but the situation of the fight that workers and workers can lead on this issue.
Elp July 30, 2007
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