The elections for the new MPs of the
European parliament on May 2014 are about to happen in a period when
the reactionary, monopoly, and imperialist nature and role of the
European Union is fully unmasked. Inside the EU the only law that
works is the law of the mightiest. The imperialist countries, the big
monopolies, and the rich oligarchies are dominant and impose their
interests on the peoples. Especially in the Eurozone, the big boss is
the German bourgeoisie which, in conjunction with other north
European countries and its political alliance with France, has risen
as a hegemonic power. The German bourgeoisie uses the EU in order to
upgrade itself economically and politico-militarily and become a
globally influential factor and participate from a strengthened
position in the intensifying imperialist antagonisms.
In the recent years, when the great
economic crisis has engulfed all the capitalist centers, the EU has
strengthened its savage antilabor and antisocial policies in order to
save and increase the profits of multinationals, capitalists, bankers
and monopoly groups. It promoted a whirlwind of antilabor measures,
reduced drastically workers' wages, hit trade union freedoms, turned
decades back the rights and the standard of living of the working
class and the rest popular social strata. This has happened
everywhere, in all the EU members. Unemployment, marginalization and
misery not only in the South but also in the North of Europe are the
everyday lives for millions of workers and young people. Social
benefits and past winnings were reduced or altogether abolished. The
big capitalists acquired state companies, whereas middle strata were
drowned economically or annihilated. The EU and its dominant bosses
have transformed societies into a jungle of exploitation, antagonism
and historical backwardness.
The European
Union is a reactionary construction of the capitalist-imperialist
elites. Historically, it is doomed to fail. It is a reactionary
coalition with internal contradictions and deadlocks, aiming at the
participation of the European imperialist in the global imperialist
rivalry. It is the instrument of contriving anti-workers and
anti-popular policies; plundering the wealth produced by the workers
and peoples of the depended and neocolonial countries. It is a new
“Holy Alliance” against the working class, against civil
resistance movements and the peoples’ struggles for national and
social liberation.
The European
Union leads, both along with the US and other imperialist powers and
individually, the defense of the rule of the capital and
multinationals around the world. It supports imperialist economic and
military interventions; it plunders the natural resources and
manpower of the semi colonial and dependent countries. It has close
ties with NATO, whose expansion is an aggressive military move. In
the recent years it has supported, directly or indirectly military
aggressions in Libya, Mali, and the Central African Republic. It
foments the savage civil war in Syria and it has played the leading
role in the escalation of the Ukrainian internal crisis, the
bloodshed there and the dangers of a partition. It has become the
production laboratory for anti-workers policies. It actively supports
the so called anti-terror campaign, along with the American
imperialists against the liberation and revolutionary movements. It
adopts tough anti-migrant policies, builds walls against desperate
migrants and is responsible for the deaths of thousands of migrants
along its borders. It promotes the anti-communist hysteria, supports
the rise of racism, fascism and Nazi thugs. It exerts pressure for
the adoption and implementation of tough repression measures along
with the curtailment of democratic rights.
The European
Parliament and the election held in each member-country is a
scheduled operation in order to provide a democratic pretext to this
reactionary coalition of the European capitalist elites. It is the
instrument for the disorientation and the incorporation of the
popular and workers movements of resistance and overthrow. It is an
institution that endorses the reactionary policies of the European
Commission and other summit conferences. It is a hornets' nest that
legitimizes the policies against the social and national liberation
movements which also promotes anti-communism. It is an institution
discredited, almost from the very first moment of its existence in
the eyes of the European peoples, and that is why it has been
addressed with complete debasement. That is why there is a so low
turnout in the European parliament elections.
The
European Parliament is construct made by the powerful. All these
years it has identified itself with the capitalist and imperialist
policies. It is not just an “elephant graveyard” of some silent
high-paid MPs that know only to applause and cosign. It is rather a
body of supporters and propagandists of the rotten capitalist
European Idea that has nothing in common with the historical demand
and the necessity for friendship and common struggle of the workers
and the peoples of Europe. This necessity can only be fulfilled in
the struggles for the overthrow of this savage and reactionary
alliance of capitalists and imperialists. The recent proposal of
German Foreign Minister Schäuble to replace the so-called European
Parliament with a Eurozone parliament shows clearly how the powerful
imperialist governments deal with the European institutions.
Against all
these, against the European Union and its governments, against the
capitalist savagery and imperialism, must rise again the power of the
struggling working class and the popular movements. We must fight to
strengthen internationalist solidarity and the common struggles, to
support the right of each people to choose their own way of economic
development and social organization that they want; to support the
resistance against the policies of the EU; to confront vigorously the
revival of fascism, racism and neo-Nazism.
We, the
undersigning of this joint statement, left and communist
organizations and parties from European countries, address the
workers, the youth, the migrants and all progressive people and
activists in the resistance movements against capitalist savagery and
imperialism to active resistance against the European Union policies,
aiming at the final dissolution of this reactionary imperialist
coalition. We also fight for the withdrawal of our countries from the
EU. We call for mass voter abstention from the farce elections of the
European Parliament and we struggle to turn the passive voter
abstention into a mass and militant movement against the European
Union.
NO TO THE
EUROPEAN UNION!
ABSTENTION FROM
THE EUROELECTION FARCE!
STRUGGLE AGAINST
CAPITALIST SAVAGERY AND IMPERIALISM!
FOR THE
SOLIDARITY OF THE PEOPLES, FOR FREEDOM AND SOCIALISM!
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