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
Jugendwiderstand- Germany
Marxism Leninism Maoism - Ireland
Marxism Leninism Maoism - Ireland
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