House of Paine

what's left :euro division

 i may never read this myself again

what an unmitigated ball of warm fuzz 

  is this the  economic policy axe
 of  the euro left ?????


chop down that rubber tree plant ????

  "we've got hi... yah ....hopes 
we got hi..ta ...hopes 
we got high apple pie in the sky hopes "

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 sad  to tell
but dis be 
the latest  euroleft  eco-co-nut mini festo 

btw slide down to the last few graphs
on the euro bank 

         talk about a fart in a wind storm 


behold:

    "ANOTHER ECONOMIC MODEL FOR A SOCIAL EUROPE"

-------- if you expect to find this
           other  model here

 click off now --------------

"Mass unemployment
 the demolition 
of the European welfare state 
 and in particular the fears 
of the elderly generation 
about safeguarding the rights 
they achieved 
and of the younger generation
 about the increasing precariousness 
are bitter aspects of everyday life 
in all EU mem-ber states. "


---------- shit reading that openner
  was like chewing on peanut shells -------------

"They are the result 
of the neo-liberal policies 
practiced by the political 
  and economic el-ites
 in the EU 
and the governments 
  of the European countries"

-------- neo liberal
start counting the use 
 of this label
its as if
tjust repeating it enough times 
 might by  itself 
be  enough to  dissolve the klass dictator- ship ----------- 


" This path is undemocratic, 
unsocial, 
lacks solidarity
 and destroys the environment."

------ tell me more --------

" According to the logic 
of those in government today
 the future EU course 
will be “Carry on as usual”."

 "But: There can be no “Carry on” 
in the interests of a European 
space for integration 
as a response 
to the globalisation processes"


------- what rolling majesty this has -----------

" For women ....
---- this the first of the catering to 
uz genetic life members 
of the   slit crotch legion 
really quite unconvincingly lame ----------- 

  for woooomen
   the new flexible neoliberal 
la-bour market model 
 means  lower wages,
 under-qualified jobs,
 a higher level of unemployment
 and a sea of sea-sonal work 
each day 
constitutes an ever  bigger hurdle;
 their   --- not ours ---
     social protection,
 pensions 
and other benefits 
derived from contributions
 are too often below average 
in intensity
------ like this puff lingo ----------
 coverage and in quantity, 
and much below the masculine average"

-------a  masculine neoliberal average yet ----------


"Through their globally oriented
 market radicalism 
  neo-liberal ....
       ---bing ---
              ...  policies 
more and more dissolve 
the national welfare state variations

-------- 
"variations " ???
perhaps 
counter puntal elaborations?-------

" impairs domestic demand...

------ now thats a punchy  phrase --------


 "consolidates and increases unem-ployment
 and increases the number of precarious jobs
 organises a redistribution 
of the social wealth 
from the bottom to the top
 reinforces the tendencies 
of eroding solidarity in society
 and blocks socially 
and ecologically sustainable growth"

------ blocks it with unsustainable growth -----------

 
"An alternative to this development
 must promote European strategic investments 
that guarantees regional equilibrium 
and conversion
 development of European public services 
and efficient social
 environmental 
and research European policies"

" The above mentioned aims 
cannot be achieved
 without the increase 
of the current allocated financial resources
 of the EU "

 The need for an Euro-pean fiscal reform
 namely the capacity 
to release European public bonds

 The end of EU subordi-nation
 can only be achieved 
with the replacement 
of the stability pact
 by a growth and employment pact"

The utilisation of women 
in the framework of the family
 in order to accomplish the tasks 
that con-cern the care of persons
 education of children, etc. 
which permits the governments
 to disclaim their responsibility 
and to put in question 
the existing public services"


Through a policy 
of curbing domestic mass demand
 environmental destruction
 and speculation 
in the international financial markets 
in favour of the ruling classes
 The dilemma today is:
 more neo-liberalism
 cancelling Europe originality 
and advancing towards North America model
 or new model 
to reverse the system priorities:
 giving to people’s rights 
and human values instead 
of com-petitiveness"

  
"To achieve this goal 
 we need to build a European public space
 based on a new social democ-ratic commitment
 reversing classes relationship" 



"For the European left
 the first step towards 
a different economic policy 
must be to stop 
the demoli-tion of the welfare state"

" Since the implementation 
of Reagan’s and Thatcher’s 
ultraliberal right-wing doctrine
 social relations have been redefined 
on the ideological basis 
of an unbridled com-petitiveness 
and the reduction of labour  rights"

 An ideological change has occurred
 by which neo-liberalism has used 
technological transformations 
to impose an even harder policy
 of domination and exploitation"

" The neo-liberal globalisation 
has upset labour
 global relations 
and the very struc-ture 
of the production system 
as far as both labour 
and the capital are concerned"

 Such a trans-formation 
has produced deep and devastating changes 
in human relations
 in the relation between human beings
 and nature
 and in the creation 
of a shared and fair system of values"

" The political European Left 
will have to challenge 
the huge changes in society 
and the economy 
if it wants to present 
convincing alternative proposals"

" A return to old ways 
of social security 
will not be possi-ble; 
new and radical demands 
require alternative policies"


"Defending the rights 
traditionally advocated
 by the left 
(political, labour, social,
 economic and pub-lic rights)
 together with the demands 
of new political cultures 
and social movements 
(feminist, envi-ronmental, 
cultural, intellectual properties’... rights) 
is a necessity and a possible goal today"

" Social movements have attracted 
public attention 
to the debate over common goods rights
 (especially right to water)
 which defence has the same logic
 as other rights"

"Our alternative economic policy
 must correspond to the human logic:
 to leave to future generation 
a better world than in which we live today"

" In the 21st century, 
to fight for environmental 
and social rights 
is a solidarity obligation
 and a clever answer 
to a economic logic 
that it is not"


"We do not only question 
the primacy of the market 
and competitiveness and  growth"


" There is a need, instead,
 for the primacy 
of the public interest 
and the political involvement 
in shaping society"

" The public is not only
 the national state
 We have to recognize
 that today by public interest
 we mean a democracy at different levels
 that puts together national institutions
 local governments 
and broad forms of citizens’ 
direct participation"


 
"That must be the character of Europe"



"But the current model
 doesn’t solve the crisis"

" There’s no economist 
who answers 
how global economy 
can survive without cutting salaries
 labour rights
 or exhaust natural resources 
to growth" 

"The European 
and the EU governments
 neo-liberal impose
 a dilution of workers’ rights 
and wage cuts 
because of international competition"

 "They justify themselves by saying that,
 without such a competition,
 companies would relocate 
their production to countries 
with cheaper labour costs"

" This is a lie
. We do not accept 
such a blackmailing 
and keep on defending social
, environmental and labour rights 
in our countries and elsewhere"



"We, therefore, demand  
the creation of a new European public space 
in which we can defend la-bour
 and social rights convergence 
in all countries"

" Opposition to relocation 
of production 
should be carried out
 through social struggle
 public intervention 
and restructuring productive activity 
with workers’ participation" 



"On the world political stage
 for us Europe 
and the European Union 
as it exists today 
are the mini-mal dimension 
of politics as the expression 
of class struggle"

" But Europe's cultures 
and extraordi-nary political experiences
 the achievements gained 
in over a hundred years 
of working-class movement
 the debates on sustainability
 and alternative economic models 
and the self-critical analysis 
of the failure 
of socialist societies 
in Central and Eastern Europe 
and the Soviet Union 
still hold out a possibility today"

" They can and must be related 
to a movement which marks our own age
 The qualitative leap  
towards the rebirth 
of the politics is possible" 




"The crisis, like the war,
 is a constituent part
 of today's capitalist globalisation"

" Precariousness and social uncertainty 
are affecting employment 
and the life of the people
 as well as the economy 
and capitalist development
 Instability and uncertainty 
are the general 
and class measure 
of contempo-rary capitalism
 These conditions are tending 
to widen the gap 
that exists between 
innovation and social progress"

 "Today, it is becoming increasingly more evident
 that the model 
based on social "cohesion" is breaking up"

" The economic crisis 
is being offloaded 
onto the citizens of Europe 
through restructuring policies
 for the welfare systems 
 privatising health care 
and cutting pensions
 Privatisation of services 
is the next sTep 
towards total mercantilization 
of social life" 



"We consider social protection 
a central element 
for the cohesion of the 25 EU member countries 
and a true productive element
 In effect
 the European social model 
is the one able to defeat 
the dramatic and growing unemployment 
and precariousness"

 "European Left Party's opposition
 is not so much 
to the declared objectives 
of the Lisbon strategy
 but to their subordination 
to the capitalis-tic competition politics
 and to their liberalizing logic"

" We have to think about a political economy
 able to stop the social decline
 not only by defending social
 tax and environmental standards 
in the global competition
 but also by implementing them 
as true development boosters"


"Yes, we must refuse 
 to pay the price 
of the continent's economic decline"

" Our alternative eco-nomic concepts
 for the European union 
must rather focus on possibilities 
to stave  off the eco-nomic crisis 
by re-launching 
a tangible proposal
 to prevent the uncertainty 
and precarious em-ployment
 and poor living conditions 
of the European populations"

" Therefore we work towards 
the perfectly possible aim
 of full and decent employment
 for all of those that live and work here"

 
"We welcome the work done
 by the MEP’s of our EL parties
 who in the confederal GUE/NGL 
par-liamentary party contribute 
to designing an independent 
“European welfare model”"


"It is not enough 
just to defend the welfare state
 The crisis-stricken conditions 
in which we are liv-ing 
are essentially the result
 of targeted choices 
taken in the framework of globalisation
 And they are continuing 
with ever-increasing intensity
 from delocalizing industries
 and the passive interna-tionalisation 
of our economies
 to the reorganisation 
of production based 
on making employment structurally precarious"


"We propose to invest 
the public funds 
education and technology, 
taking into account 
the need of balanced 
regional and structural adaptation
 and compensation in all parts 
of the EU"

" Instead of competition 
through lowering of labour costs
 and investing we want 
to globally enforce the interna-tional 
regulations for active labour rights
 – the universal standards
 of the ILO conventions 
(above all ILO standards for “decent work”)
 in all labour relations 
and especially in such parts 
of the world 
where workers are forced to compete
 in semi-slavery conditions"

" This can and will be an important step
 against wage and social dumping
 in the global economy"

"The European Left will continue 
to support all actions combating 
the increasingly precarious nature 
of labour and giving it a new status 
of rights and participation"

" One only has to look 
at the Bolke-stein directive
 and the working hours directive
 which directly act on reorganising 
the production system based 
on weakening the working people
 Millions of them
 most seriously affected are women
 young people and migrants 
 are gradually sliding beneath 
the poverty threshold" 


"What matters in terms of collective agreements
 is to defend this system 
throughout Europe
 and ban the danger 
stemming from deregulation 
by means of various European directives
 In order to avoid relocation 
and competition among workers 
we have to help create 
European common stan-dards for wages
 public pensions
 public services, etc. "



"This alternative has to be thought 
forward all policies beyond 
the Bolkestein-directive 
and the de-fence of the public sector
 We must broaden the debate 
to new forms of social economy 
and the creation of public structures
 where they are  not existing 
or  weak"

" Innovation, improving 
and de-mocratising public management
 is a task of the Left"
 
"Our proposals which will have 
to be detailed and qualified
 shared with the trade unions 
and all so-cial representations 
of working and jobless people
 are focusing:
 the alternative society for Europe
 requires a radical change of direction 
in economic and social policy
 a change of direction
 which takes into accounts 
the demands of the movements
 and relates to the labour world
 environmen-talism and feminism"
 
"The lever for change 
is therefore 
the construction of political
 trade unions 
and social alliances 
in order to contribute
 to the growth 
of a great workers’
 and alternative move-ment"

" By this we mean supporting 
a European campaign 
 and united proposals
 to defend and ad-vance working class interests
 What we have to do 
is give priority once again 
to the Marxian theme 
of liberation of labour"

" in other words
 appreciate the value
 of what the labour force
 has accumu-lated for society
 so that rights and wages
 in a non-commodified society
 increasingly become variables 
independent of the domination 
of business"

" In this spirit
 we take the demands 
and ex-periences 
of the labour and social movements"


"Moreover
 we think that the ECB 
should have a completely new role and mission"

" so that it can be 
democratically 
monitored 
by giving up the central role 
of monetary policies
 and abandon the stabil-ity 
and growth pact"

"It is not comprehensible 
to stick to the rigid rules
 of the pact "

"although it just has proved 
that it doesn’t stimulate
 neither the economic stability
 nor the employment
 because of its one-sided 
fixation 
on the monetary stability"

" It must be replaced
 by introducing social
 employ-ment 
and ecological criteria
 into a new agreement
 or “pact” "

"and must contain
 more flanking regula-tions 
to coordinate the monetary policy 
of the European Central Bank 
with the economic
 and finan-cial policy 
of the member states"