The streets of France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Greece and Portugal all share the same root cause: the deep \u2013 and perhaps irreversible \u2013 crisis of the European Union. In an attempt first to play a role in inter-imperialist competition and then to free themselves from the yoke of the United States, the great strategists of the European Commission decided to build their future on policies of austerity, privatisation and rearmament, first succeeding in causing a massive rise in fascist, racist and xenophobic groups, and then, in one fell swoop, triggering an uprising across all the major countries of the Union and even in its Albanian offshoot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The European Union\u2019s economic and strategic choices have resulted in a massive diversion of resources from the welfare state to war and the financial sector, which has seen its profits soar out of all proportion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The outpouring of protests across European streets is, in essence, the first mass response to these policies which \u2013 aided by an international context increasingly geared towards the expansion and generalisation of \u2018war by piecemeal\u2019 \u2013 have produced mass impoverishment, precariousness as the sole model for work and existence, social polarisation and now unsustainable inequalities, and the proliferation of repressive legislation targeting all forms of social and class conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most obvious result is a crisis of the future which the younger generations, in particular, have perceived and rejected through massive popular mobilisations and with a determination that has astonished and taken the European bourgeoisie by surprise as they strive to defend their power, their class\/caste prerogatives and privileges, but also those trade union and social organisations shut away in their own fortified castles and alien to any understanding of the mass phenomena produced by the European Union\u2019s capitalist policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is up to the class-based and mass trade unions organised within the World Federation of Trade Unions to support every mobilisation, strike and demonstration that identifies its fundamental objective as challenging the social model proposed by the European Union and the European bourgeoisie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fighting against war and military servitude, against the militarisation of society, against inequality and precariousness, against mass impoverishment, and against the theft of the future from the younger generations is part of our task in our own countries and throughout Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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