Joint statement on the European Parliament election
May 2019
The European elections do not belong to the peoples!
They belong to the multinationals and the imperialists!
Abstention and denunciation of the European Union!
The European
Parliament election in May will be held at a time when the reactionary nature
and role of the European Union (EU) are fully exposed. The EU operates under
the law of the mighty; the powerful imperialist states and monopolies rule and
impose their policies and interests.
Throughout the
years of the capitalist crisis, the EU reinforced barbaric policies against the
working class and the peoples, aiming at retaining and increasing the profits
of multinationals, capitalists, bankers, and monopoly groups. They promoted a
storm of anti-labor measures, drastically reduced labor wages, attacked trade
unions and the right to strike, set back by decades the rights and the living
standards of the working class and the peoples. This was the case in all EU
member-states. Unemployment, marginalization and poverty, not only in the south
but also in the north of Europe, hit millions of toilers and young people.
Social benefits were reduced or abolished, public enterprises were taken over
by capitalists, and parts of the middle classes drowned financially. The EU and
the capitalists that rule over it have transformed societies into jungles of
exploitation, competition, and historical regression. The long and fierce
struggle of the French people and toilers against Macron’s austerity measures
and murderous repression is strong proof of this. The immediate payment of the
repairs in Notre Dame is one more proof of the outrageous hypocrisy of the
bourgeoisie who’s overflowed with wealth and at the same time forces austerity
measures against the working class and the masses of France.
Due to these
anti-social policies, the reactionary, racist, nationalist, and fascist forces
have been reinforced in all EU member-states. These forces are not opposing the
capitalists and imperialists, albeit they so present themselves. They are
propagandists and supporters of extreme anti-labor policies and the push of
public life towards fascism. They express the most extreme forces of
capitalism, exploitation, and social, ethnic, religious, cultural, and gender
discrimination. They are the forces that pave the way to war and the slaughter
of toilers and peoples of Europe.
The EU is a
reactionary construction of the capitalist-imperialist elites, which is historically
doomed to fail. It is a reactionary alliance with internal contradictions and
deadlocks. The developments around Brexit confirm this assumption. The EU
resembles a laboratory aiming to design policies against the toilers and the
peoples and plundering of the wealth that the toilers and peoples of the
dependent and neo-colonial countries are producing. It is a new "sacred
alliance" against the working class, the social resistance movements, the
migration flows, and peoples' struggles for national and social liberation.
The EU has a
leading role, together with, but at the same time discretely from, the US and
other imperialist countries, in defending the global power of the capital and
the multinationals. It supports imperialist economic and military interventions
and loots the semi-colonial and dependent countries of their natural and human
wealth. Only in the recent years they directly and actively -or indirectly-
supported military interventions in Libya, Mali and Central African Republic.
They stirred up the civil war in Syria and led the escalation of the internal
crisis, bloodshed, and the risks of separation in Ukraine. They support the
imperialist campaign against the people of Venezuela, they participate in the
illegal economic sanctions and reinforce the anti-constitutional initiatives of
the opposition. They actively support the so-called anti-terrorist campaign by
collaborating with the US imperialists against the liberating and revolutionary
peoples’ movements. They adopt tough anti-immigration policies, they build
legislative and practical barriers and walls against desperate migrants and
refugees and they are responsible for thousands of deaths at the borders. They
promote anticommunist hysteria and, with their policies, they reinforce the
revival of racism, fascism and Nazi gangs. They push for the adoption of tough
measures to suppress and reduce democratic rights.
The European
Parliament -and the direct general election in the EU member-states- is a
well-planned project to build a democratic facade for this reactionary alliance
of European bourgeoisie. It is a tool of disorientation of people and workers’
resistance movements. It is an institution of ratification of the reactionary
policies of the European Commission, the European Council and the Council of
the EU. It legitimizes policies against the movements of social and ethnic
liberation and promotes anti- communism. It is an institution that has been
devastated since the very beginning of its existence in the eyes of the
European peoples and that is why it faces complete deprecation through the high
abstention rates in the European elections.
The so–called
European Parliament is a construct of the powerful and not a fulfilled demand
of the struggles and movements of the peoples of Europe. All these years of
barbarism it has been identified with the policies of the capitalists and
imperialists. It is not just an “elephant cemetery”, some silent, highly paid
MPs who only know how to applaud and subscribe; but a body of supporters and propagandists
of the rotten capitalist European idea, which has nothing to do with the
long–standing demand and need for fraternity and common struggle of the toilers
and peoples of Europe. This is a need that can only be served in the struggles
to overthrow this barbaric and reactionary alliance of capitalists and
imperialists.
Against all of
them, against the EU and the governments of the member-states, against the
capitalist barbarity and imperialism, the power of the struggling working class
and the peoples’ movements must rise again. We fight to strengthen
internationalist solidarity and common struggles, we defend the right of the
peoples to choose their own path of development and social organization. We
support the resistance against the EU policies. We strongly oppose the revival
of fascism, racism and neo-Nazism. We stand in favor of the socialist prospect
of the peoples and the working class.
We who sign
this common public announcement, left and communist organizations and parties
from European countries, address the toilers, the unemployed, the youth, the
immigrants and all the progressive and struggling people and the movements of
resistance against capitalist barbarism and imperialism. We call on them to
actively resist the policies of the EU, with the ultimate goal of crushing this
imperialist reactionary alliance. We are struggling for the
secession-withdrawal of our countries from the EU. We call for mass boycottage
to the farce of the European elections and we are struggling
to turn passive action to a massive and militant movement against the EU.
NO TO THE
EUROPEAN UNION OF CAPITALISTS AND IMPERIALISTS!
ABSTENTION FROM
THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS!
AGAINST THE
ANTILABOR POLICIES OF AUSTERITY AND OF SOCIAL BARBARISM!
INTERNATIONALIST,
ANTI-IMPERIALIST, CLASS FRONT OF EUROPEAN TOILERS AND PEOPLES AGAINST WAR,
RACISM AND FASCISM!
Democracy and Class struggle – Wales
Committee for the Construction of the Maoist
Communist Party Galicia – Spain
CPG(m-l) -Greece
PMLI- Italy
Initiative for the Construction of a
revolutionary- Communist Party – Austria
Jugendwierstand- Germany
Initiative for the Construction of a
revolutionary- Communist Party – Austria
Jugendwierstand- Germany
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