The next European elections will be held during the worst crisis capitalism has known since 1929.
Economic, social, financial, banking, food, climatic, it is a global, general crisis.
Once again, the ruling classes want to make workers and peoples pay for the crisis. Governments have given hundreds of billions to banks but at the same time millions of layoffs fall on employees. Unemployment is going through the roof. The purchasing power of wages is falling. The destruction of public services continues.
It's not for people and workers to pay for the crisis, the capitalists should pay!
This policy of European Union institutions has been rejected by the "No" votes in France, the Netherlandsand Ireland.
We reject the plans of EU governments that save banks and not people.
We put forward an emergency social and democratic plan:
In these circumstances, and taking into account the particularities of each country, we are committed to building convergences in opposition against employers’ and governments’ attacks and at the same time to creating the conditions for a political alternative and an anti-capitalist pole based on the popular mobilizations, one which would stand for a Europe of social rights, and refuses any support of or participation in social liberal governments with social democratic parties or the centre left.
Indeed, what is needed is to break with capitalism and its logic. In this sense, the anticapitalist European left put these aims in the perspective of the struggle for 21st century socialism, and commits itself to restarting the debate on questions of a new distribution of wealth, of property and of democracy.
On this basis, and in the framework of the choices of each organisation, the undersigned will intervene during the next weeks in the electoral campaign for the European Parliament.
The signatory organisations :
Belgium : Ligue communiste révolutionnaire, Parti socialiste de lutte
France : Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste
Germany : internationale sozialistische linke, Revolutionär Sozialisticher
Great Britain : Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, International
Socialist Group-Socialist Resistance
Greece : Antarsia (Anticapitalist Coalition) and organisations DEA,
KEDA, KOE, Kokkino, Roza, Xekinima from Syriza (Radical Left Coalition)
Italy : Sinistra critica
Poland : Polska Partia Pracy
Portugal : Bloco de Esquerda
Scotland : Scottish Socialist Party
Spanish State : Izquierda Anticapitalista
Sweden : Socialistiska Partiet
Switzerland : Gauche Anticapitaliste, Mouvement pour le Socialisme,
SolidaritéSThe
Interventionistische Linke of Germanyand the POR of
Spanish State didn’t take part in the meeting and sent solidarity messages.