1 May 2012
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
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
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