Today, called by the main trade unions, a day of actions against austerity is organised in more than 170 French cities. Trade unions denounce rightly the two austerity plans imposed by the French government which combine social and welfare cuts, destruction of public services that finally leads to recession and impoverishment of peoples.
The Party of the European Left (EL) supports workers in their legitimate struggle and shares their condemnation of Nicolas Sarkozy and François Fillon policy whose only goal is to steal workers, women, young people, pensioners, to take what belongs to people in order to deliver it on a plate to their « Fouquet's friends », to the bankers and stockholders. It is the workers that make the wealth of France and they must be heard!
At a time when heads of states and European leaders want to impose the « golden rule » in all countries, submit national budgets to their order, and continue attacks against workers, the Party of the European Left is fully committed to fight with them to promote real solutions to exit the crisis. It means: public control of banking and financial systems, a new role for the European Central Bank to serve the social, ecological and solidarity development, a fair tax system and an increase of social and wage standards in every European country.
The EL calls for the creation, everywhere in Europe, of resistance fronts against austerity and will take initiatives to establish dialogue between all political, trade unions and democratic forces in Europe which are looking for solution to exit –not to manage – the crisis. It's time for unity and alternatives to exit the dead-end.