Cde VC, this is an interesting development. I just hope that socialist projects across Europe will, in solidarity with the working class struggle to oppose policies that seek to serve the interests of EU powers in Brussels, defend the cause of communist and workers’ revolution to attain total economic and social justice. Angela Merkel's defence of these permanent regimes of economic austerity is not only criminal but in contempt of principles of democracy and utter display of subservience to imperialism. Long live the struggle of 17 communist parties in exposing the "Eurozone" structural adjustment programme designed to entrench European monopoly capitalism in the PIGS countries. Remain, Morgan Phaahla
"Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology." - Joe Slovo --- On Mon, 5/14/12, VC <[email protected]> wrote: From: VC <[email protected]> Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Government by Treaty, Joint statement by European communist and workers’ parties To: [email protected] Date: Monday, May 14, 2012, 7:31 AM Communist Party of Ireland, 14 May 2012 Eugene Mc Cartan, CPI General Secretary, to Africa Left Forum Dear comrades, Below is a statement that you may be interested in. It’s a united statement signed by 17 communist parties within the European Union. It specifically deals with the current push by European monopoly capitalism to further its strategic approach and unleash new waves of attacks on workers across the European Union. Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, has said: “The debt brakes [Treaty rules] will be binding and valid forever. Never will you be able to change them through a parliamentary majority.” Joint statement by European communist and workers’ parties Joint statement issued by communist parties from across the European Union calling for maximum opposition to the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union and the revised Treaty on the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The European Union and the ruling classes of the member states are determined to make working people pay a very heavy price for the deepening crisis of the system. We Communist and Workers’ parties of the member states of the European Union call on workers across the EU to resist and oppose the adoption of the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union and the revised Treaty on the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). These two treaties would make “Eurozone” member states and practically all other countries signing these agreements into permanent regimes of economic austerity involving deeper and deeper cuts in public expenditure, rises in indirect taxes, reductions in wages, sustained liberalisation of markets and privatisation of public enterprises, services and vital national assets. The strategy is to have low wages, low public spending, mass poverty and workers having few rights. The treaties are designed to make these measures into a permanent feature of the EU that are impossible to reverse. The impact of these treaties will not be confined to the member states of the Eurozone. They will provide the bench-mark for further attacks on workers’ rights and conditions across the whole of the EU. The ruling classes have declared open warfare on workers in a generalised offensive. These treaties are designed to neutralise the potential of national working class formations to influence or change national economic and social policy. They, along with previous treaties, are about blocking any avenues for the working class to defend itself or to promote policies of social progress and a socialist alternative. They will make austerity permanent by continuous external interference of EU institutions in the affairs of member states in relation to economic and social policy, in the interests of monopoly capitalism. In this they have the active collaboration of the ruling class and its political representatives in each country. These treaties will further negate and deeply undermine national and sovereign rights. Any policies that the ruling classes across the European Union can deliver will inevitably make the people pay for this crisis of capitalism. Promoting the interests of the working class is only possible by confronting and breaking with this destructive system. We, Communist and Workers’ Parties value and salute the mass response from the workers and other social strata affected by the measures and policies of big capital, in Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy and call upon workers and their trade unions, and people’s mass organisations, to resist these renewed attacks and to mobilise and assert a working class response to the crisis of state monopoly capitalism. In the immediate battles of today our parties will present the vision of Socialism as the answer to the crisis of the capitalist system. Workers’ Party of Belgium Communist Party of Britain Communist Party in Denmark Communist Party of Finland German Communist Party Communist Party of Greece Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party Communist Party of Ireland Party of Italian Communists Communist Party of Luxembourg Communist Party of Malta New Communist Party of the Netherlands Communist Party of Poland Portuguese Communist Party Communist Party of Spain Communist Party of Sweden Communist Party of Germany 1 May 2012 -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. 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