To
the communist and workers’ parties of Europe
The
“INITIATIVE of communist and workers’ parties in order to study and elaborate
European issues and to coordinate their activity”, which was founded in October
of 2013 by 29 communist and workers’ party, approved the following DECLARATION
which it addresses to the working class, the peoples of the Europe and also calls
on those communist and workers’ parties of Europe that do not yet participate
for the present in the “INITIATIVE”, but can agree with our call and our
assessments, to co-sign it, facilitating our common struggle, the unity of our
activity, against the anti-people policies and the imperialist unions of the EU
and NATO.
LET
US STRENGTHEN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION AND THE EU-FOR A
EUROPE OF THE PEOPLES, OF SOCIALISM!
Workers,
self-employed, craftsmen, small farmers, women, young people, pensioners,
people with special needs
We, the
Communist and Workers’ parties which sign this declaration address you on the
occasion of the EU Parliamentary election of 2014.
Reality
demonstrates that the EU, the European imperialist centre, has never served the
wellbeing of working people. It has always been the tool of the European big
capital to increase its profits and to secure its rule.
It
can not be radically changed and can not become “pro-people”. The expectations
being fostered for a change in favour of the peoples through a change of the
president of the Commission are fraudulent.
It
is in the interests of the peoples to struggle to change the situation, to
change the correlation of forces, for the Europe of socialism, which will
safeguard the right to work, social and social-security rights, income, the
future of the workers.
Our
parties are defending your interests, the interests of the working class, the
popular strata, the rights of the youth.
We are
struggling against unemployment, the anti-people measures being imposed by the
governments and the European Union for the reduction of salaries and pensions,
the abolition of labour, social-security rights, the commercialization
of health, education, welfare, the destruction of the environment,
the abolition of democratic rights and freedoms. We are fighting against
the EU, which is attempting to overcome the crisis at the expense of the
peoples. We condemn anti-communism, repression, the restriction of
sovereign rights.
Our
parties support:
The
struggle of the workers and unemployed for fulltime-stable work.
·
The defense of the people’s
income and increases in salaries and pensions.
·
For free public health, education,
welfare.
·
Democratic rights in the workplaces,
labour and social-security rights.
·
The rights of immigrant workers
·
The support for the small and medium
farmers.
·
The essential protection of the
environment that is being sacrificed for the profits of big capital.
·
We denounce the imperialist
aggressiveness against the peoples, imperialist wars and interventions. We are
struggling for peace, for the removal of all the US-NATO military bases,
against NATO, against the “Partnership for Peace” and the Euro-army, against
participation in wars and interventions.
·
We are struggling against the
full-scale offensive which is further escalating in the conditions of the
capitalist crisis of overproduction and capital over-accumulation.
·
We rally together with the working
class and popular families that are undergoing the dramatic consequences of the
capitalist crisis which is dramatically worsening the conditions of the working
class and popular strata.
·
We support the struggle of the peoples
from the member-states of Eastern Europe, who are subject to the painful
consequences of their countries’ accession to the EU.
We
call on the working class, the peoples:
o To
develop their struggle concerning every popular problem, to strengthen their
resistance against capital’s offensive, and against the governments and parties
that serve its interests.
o To
strengthen their struggle against the European Union, the union of capital that
strikes against the rights of the peoples.
o To
support in every available way the communist and workers’ parties that denounce
the EU and its strategy in the battle of the EU Parliamentary election on the
25th of
May 2014, to weaken the parties that support the EU and its political line,
that defend the “EU one-way street” of capital.
This
stance will lend strength to the people’s struggle all over Europe, the workers
will struggle from a more advantageous position.
The
EU does not serve the people, the EU serves the billionaires, the super rich,
the interests of the monopolies, the concentration
and centralization of capital, to reinforce its characteristics as an
imperialist economic, political and military bloc of states opposed to the
interests of the working class and popular strata.
It
is in the peoples’ interests to oppose the attempt to manipulate them which is
being organized by the EU, its mechanisms and the governments and the parties
that support the imperialist union.
They
promise that the EU can safeguard our right to work, guarantee labour and
social-security rights. They want the people to believe that they can
give them a better living standard. It is a big lie.
Let's
remember the facts! The number of unemployed in the EU is 30 million,
under-employment and poverty are constantly expanding, the future of the youth
is being undermined.
The
fundamental rights of working people and the popular strata are being
abolished. Poor farmers are being wiped out, self-employed are being suffocated
by the competition of the monopolies, inequality and discrimination against
women is intensifying. Immigrants are being persecuted.
The
anti-people arsenal of the EU is being reinforced with new measures. The
“stability pact”, the “reinforced economic governance” and the other
instruments that are being used are forming a painful situation for the
peoples.
The
“Common Security and Defense Policy” constitutes a dangerous means for wars and
interventions, in the service of the imperialist aggressiveness.
The
motor force of capitalist unification is the interests of the European
monopolies, the EU is constantly developing in a reactionary direction at the
expense of the peoples.
Consequently,
it is obvious that neither the imperialist union, nor the
European Central Bank can become
pro-people, as the Europarties that support the EU’s strategy claim.
Further,
the EU cannot be promoted as a “counterweight” to NATO and the USA, as various
supporters of the predatory alliance claim.
It
cooperates closely with NATO and the USA against the peoples, while the
inter-imperialist competition is intensifying and is related to the control of
the markets, the sharing out of the plunder.
The
Communist and Worker’s parties that sign this statement :
Note
that the offensive of capital is unified and concerns all the EU member-states,
as well as the rest of the European capitalist states as a whole and on this
basis it is necessary to strengthen the joint struggles of the CPs and the
peoples, to develop solidarity with the struggle of workers all over Europe,
all over the world.
We
stress that there exists another development path for the peoples. The
perspective of another Europe, the prosperity of the peoples, social progress,
democratic rights, equal cooperation, peace, and socialism are highlighted
through the workers' struggles.
We
believe in the right of each people to choose in a sovereign way its path of
development, including the right to disengage from the dependencies on the EU
and NATO and every other imperialist organization, to struggle for the
socialist development path.
This
is the real answer to the organized attempt to mislead the peoples.
This
is the real pro-people answer to the so-called “euroscepticism” as well as to
the nationalist, fascist-Nazi parties that seek to exploit the agony and
problems of the people in order to strengthen their forces, as the spearhead of
the dictatorship of the monopolies. This is the real
answer to the reactionary, anti-historical theories that equate communism with
Nazism and to the anti-communism that is spread by them and to the system that
nourishes them.
We
call on the working class, the peoples of Europe to answer this responsible
call of the Communist and Workers’ Parties.
Weaken
the forces that support the EU - Support the communist and workers’ parties by
strengthening them.
No
to the EU of the monopolies, of capital and war!
For
a Europe of people’s prosperity, peace, social justice and democratic rights,
of socialism!
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