House of Paine

the euro left out party speaks on economic models

  i'll add a few mots 
when i get around to it ....


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"  ANOTHER ECONOMIC MODEL FOR A SOCIAL EUROPE

Mass unemployment,
 the demolition of the European welfare state
 
""They are the result of the neo-liberal policies 



Through their globally oriented market radicalism
 neo-liberal policies 
is dissolving more and more
 the national welfare state variations, 
impairing domestic demand, 
consolidating and raising unemployment,
 increasing the number of precarious jobs,
 organising a redistribution of social wealth 
from the bottom to the top of society,
 reinforcing the tendencies of eroding solidarity, 
blocking socially and ecologically sustainable growth.

 harming small and medium-sized farmers 

 

"our social tasks  cannot be achieved 
without an increase in the currently allocated
 financial resources of the EU"

" There is a need for a European fiscal reform,
 namely the capacity to release European public bonds"


 "klass subordination can only be achieved 
with the replacement of the stability pact
 by a growth and employment pact"



Progressing mechanisation, automatisation
 and efficiency orientation 
are changing the structure of the world of labour. 


. In face of this development 
the political goal of overcoming unemployment 
has to be considered anew.



 Recognizing the reality of today's societies, citizens' subsistence has to be guaranteed 
independently of traditional gainful employment.

 a new, emancipatory understanding of work 
   in a changing world of labour.

"The utilisation of women 
in the framework of the family 
in order to accomplish the tasks 
that concern the care 
of persons, education of children, etc. 
is permitting the governments 
to disclaim their responsibility
 and to put in question
 the existing public services"



"a dilemma: either more neo-liberalism,
 cancelling European originality 
and advancing towards the North American model,
 or a new model
 reversing the system priorities 
to people’s rights and human values
 instead of competitiveness". 

 "we need to build a European public space
, based on a new social and democratic commitment,
 reversing classes relationship"

 

 "first step"  

"stop the demolition of the welfare state"

 Since the implementation
 of Reagan’s and Thatcher’s 
ultraliberal right-wing doctrine


globalisation has upset global relations
 and the very structure of the production system 

 labour and capital 


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



 crisis. 

"No economist can answer the question
 how the global economy can survive 
and grow without cutting salaries,
 labour rights or exhausting natural resources. 


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


 oppose the Lisbon strategy.


 It is opposed to this strategy, because, especially after its interim revision, 

where everything is subordinated 
to competition and the liberalisation of markets





“European welfare model”.


"We propose to invest the public funds
 in education and technology"

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The European Left will continue to support all actions against the increasingly precarious nature of labour, for giving it a new status of rights and participation. One only has to look at the Bolkestein directive and the working hours directive aiming at reorganising the production system by weakening the working people. Millions of them - most seriously affected are women, young people and migrants - are gradually sliding beneath the poverty line. 

Reducing working hours, improving work quality, strengthening social security in terms of universality and a redistributive rationale, health and safety in work places, creating wherever it is absent and strengthening a social protection system for the unemployed and for vulnerable groups – all these are central aims of the struggle of the Party of the European Left in the social field.

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 standards for wages, public pensions, public services, etc. 

This alternative has to be considered beyond fighting the Bolkestein-directive and defending the public sector. We must broaden the debate to new forms of a social economy and the creation of public structures where they are weak or not existing at all. Innovation, improving and democratising public management is a task of the Left. 

Our proposals will have to be detailed and qualified, shared with the trade unions and all social representations of working and jobless people. The alternative society for Europe requires a radical change of direction in economic and social politics, which takes into account the demands of the movements, relates to the labour world, to environmentalism 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 movement. By this we mean supporting a European campaign and common proposals to defend and advance working class interests. What we have to do is to give once again priority to the Marxian theme of the liberation of labour, in other words, to appreciate the value of what the labour force has accumulated for society, so that rights and wages in a non-commodified society will increasingly become variables independent of the domination of business. In this spirit we are taking on the demands and experience 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 stability and growth pact. It is not comprehensible to stick to the rigid rules of the pact although it just has proved that it does not stimulate neither economic stability nor employment because of its one-sided fixation on monetary stability. It must be replaced by introducing social, employment and ecological criteria into a new agreement or “pact” and must contain more flanking regulations to coordinate the monetary policy of the European Central Bank with the economic and financial policy of the member states.