Left Wing Organisations and Libertarian Grassroots Unions Call for an International Day of Action
During an international meeting in December 2011 in Frankfurt am Main, several left wing organisations and grassroots unions from Greece, Spain, Poland, Austria and Germany decided to launch a joint effort against capitalist reforms under the current crisis. On march 31st, there will be a “European Day of Action against Capitalism”, with simultaneous demonstrations in those countries, labeled “M31″. Groups from other countries are likely to join in, as networking continues. Protests will be directed against neoliberal and undemocratic impositions by the European Union (EU), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The anticapitalist organisations involved want to send a clear signal against further austerity measures, mainly propelled by Germany, and on the backs of workers, the unemployed, students and migrants.
We protest against nationalist propaganda targeting wageworkers in Southern European countries, and against the EU’s military bulkheading on its borders. Alternatively, organisers of M31 call for transnational solidarity and self-organisation of those affected by further cuts, privatization and capitalist exploitation.
Up to now, there is no effective transnational solidarity between workers, unions, the unemployed and migrants. If we want this to change, we’ll have to do it ourselves.
The international day of action in spring preludes a forthcoming European initiative of left wing organisations and grassroots unions, preparing further protests throughout 2012. We invite other emancipatory unions and organisations to join M31. Please take note of our Call for Action on www.march31.net. We’ll be happy to answer any request or proposal.
Let’s get started!
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Please spread the world of the Block Frankfurt! Block Troika! actions in Frankfurt this may. Come and fight EU and capitalism in the belly of the beast with comrades from all over Europe. Already we know that comrades is going to join us from Germany, Great Britain, France, Poland, Ukraine, Italy, Spain, Greece, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
http://www.dazwischengehen.org/story…unde-indignads
http://www.antifa.de/cms/content/view/1811/1/
re the day of action on 31 March
If you are serious about help remember you need to be nationalistic. It is the internationalists that are the cause
Could it be your organization is a front for Goldman Sachs EU, ECB. IMF?
Before I’ve posted in the wrong place, excuse me
Paolo Barnard – The Gravest Crime
http://www.democraziammt.info/images/documenti/primer-on-ploy.pdf
also in italy there will be a summit of modern modern theory where economist will tal about:
Alain Parguez : (part EU history, part EU economics)
The Europe of the elites, genesis of an aberration of democracy: from Schuman, Monnet and Perroux to the rise of financial tyranny in Brussels. The origins of the Franco-German alliance and of their Neomercantile dream: achieving mass poverty and accumulation of super profits at the top. The all powerful technocrats of France, Germany and Italy as they set off to destroy European democracies. The real meaning of the supranational EU Treaties. The capitulation of the European Left to the Neoliberal dogmas of the technocrats: a catastrophic deception. Why labour unions became irrelevant. The birth of the ECB: its real agenda. The truth about the Eurozone’s private and public economy: real unemployment, real private debt, real state of banks balance sheets, real prospects. What to do now. Your suggestions for Italy on the brink.
Stephanie Kelton 80% + Marshall Auerback 20% : (MMT) Auerback’s solo part see below.
Everything we are told about money is wrong. The birth of modern money after 1971. Sovereign money vs non-sovereign money. People don’t own any money, banks don’t have money, money has no value per se. So, what’s money? Who then creates money? The 3 sectors: basic Godley and it’s fundamental implications for understanding what govt. deficits really do. The sovereign State as net financial assets creator. Taxes destroy money: the myths about taxation and govt. revenues in a sovereign currency situation. What taxes are in a Eurozone country. The unmentionable words: The Debt! The Deficit! Are sovereign debts/deficits the epitome of all economic evils? Good deficit spending vs bad deficit spending. Are good deficits in a sovereign currency sustainable? Modern Money Theory to achieve JG -ELR programmes, full social security for all, price stability: in one word “DEMOCRACY”. Can MMT also help firms? MMT and foreign debt/current accounts. Can MMT help in a non-sovereign currency default? The default scenario for Italy: what to do (ideally) the next day. Most common critiques of MMT and how to dispel them
William Black : (Wall St and financial crimes)
Banks: are they all evil? Clarifying the difference between guys like Goldman Sachs and my local bank (huge confusion here in many young activists’ minds). The 2007 GFC: Money Manager Capitalism, the Clinton years, the deregulation of the financial sector, the bubble, and the explosion of control fraud (adapted for an EU audience). CDOs, Toxic assets and CDSs explained to ‘mums’. No one went to jail: the revolving door of Wall St. attorneys like Mary Jo White and friends, who protected whom, why this level of crime went unpunished. The ObamaSachs and govtSachs phenomena. The contagion: how Wall St. crime spilled into Europe and how it’s effecting ordinary peoples’ lives (make people connect the dots). The US has Wall St.; Italy has the Mafia: who is worse off? How to prevent the next one coming. Black/Hudson: joint MF Global & Italy session.
Michael Hudson : (Economic history, Neoliberalism, the Financial coup d’etat, political economics)
The Neoliberal triumph: a brief historical excursus explaining how the Neoclassicals killed off Marx and Keynes, to usher in Neoliberalism. Clarifying the roles and the key players of contemporary Capitalism: modern Imperialism, the Multinational Corporations, Globalization, the supranational Financial Institutions, how they all worked to emasculate democracy. The trial tests were conducted in Eastern Europe: how the Shock Therapy worked its way to devastate post-Communist democracies. The Financial Coup D’Etat in Europe: the IMF led the way by gutting Ireland and Greece, lessons for us ordinary Italians. The truth about Iceland: a democratic victory or a Vulture Funds’ killing field? Is there any possible redemption for Financial Capitalism in the third millennium? How did it get this bad? Black/Hudson: joint MF Global & Italy session.
Marshall Auerback’s solo part : (Central Banks, markets, ECB, worst case scenario in the EU)
Basic central banking in a sovereign currency: what are reserves, how CBs control inflation, the chief scaremongering myths on CB operations. Does it make any difference if sovereign bonds are held by domestic or foreign owners? CB and the Treasury can control rates in a sovereign currency situation, thus preventing markets’ attacks. Vice versa: the Eurozone scenario of unbridled market attacks: explain how it happens. So, who are the markets? What will calm the markets in the Eurozone: ability to pay? or national austerities? Explain the austerity-induced Spiral of Forced Economic Deflation and why it will make matters far worse. The ECB laid bare: what it could do to save our economies and why it is not doing it – Mario Draghi, who’s orders does he obey? Blood in the streets: a projection of a near future collapse of economic rule in the EU and mass protest.
for more info look here: http://www.democraziammt.info/documenti/19-the-topics-that-will-be-presented.html
Nationalism is the curse on earth. Internationalism is the answer
JULIEN FEBVRE wrote:
“Nationalism is the curse on earth. Internationalism is the answer”
That’s a bit simplistic, particularly considering the “internationalism” of capital today (globalisation, multi-nationals, NGOs, UN, IMF, etc.).
More importantly, if there’s an international revolutionary movement, an international state, built on the graveyard of billions in war, starvation and counter-revolutionary forces, run by eco-Keynesians once again recuperating social movements into an international social democratic or state capitalist welfare state of some kind and policing the market system ecologically (but very very into hierarchical social control), offered as a stabilising force against the chaos of both the revolution and the forces of the old nation states and private enterprise, is a real possibility.
P.S.
Exarchia (post 3) seems to be an advocate of some kind of Keynesian capitalism which gives the appearance of rationality but would invariably mean a very bureaucratic form of hierarchised misery. As long as there is money there will never be “from each according to their abilities and desires, to each according to their needs and desires”.
JackCommon
You probably confuse internationalism with globalism. Two different terms, two different concepts. Internationalism=international solidarity and interculturalism. Globalization is monocultural in nature and puts economic factors at its central approach. Nationalism is globalisation in reverse, the other side of the same coin of barbarism. On the other hand, internationalism (from below) is what we need. But such a concept presupposes no hierarchical power structures and no capitalism.
JULIEN FEBVRE – agreed, but you don’t seem to engage with my point – that you could arrive in the future at a horrible international State: wage slavery and bureaucracy in support of the eco-bosses who currently hold Keynesian notions of a reformed capitalism without borders and nation-states (in act, I think that’s probably the dominant vision of even those who initiate genuine anti-capitalist activity).
But we’re essentially in agreement, I think.
So just default. Then what? Everything you do not want will then happen overnight. You do not produce enough to justify the handouts your government has given to you.
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