On September 29-30, Brussels, the EU capital, will be in the eye of
the storm. The no border camp will already be in full action. It's
attracting activists from all over Europe fighting against the
detention and persecution of immigrants in Europe and the deportation
of Roma people out of France and Italy, which the Vice-President of
the Commission has said it reminded her of WWII ethnic cleansing. The
Great Recession is leading to the scapegoating of migrants, in order
to bolster élites whose legitimacy is fast decreasing.
On September 29, the European Trade Union Confederation is promoting a
large demo in the Brussels' European Quarter, with Spain and other
countries holding general strikes. Precarious United, a transnational
collective emerged out of the EuroMayDay network, will join the demo
by promoting a critical/anticapitalist bloc, which shares the unions'
refusal of austerity policies meted out on Greece and soon to all
European countries, but doesn't believe that "growth and jobs" are a
viable prospect, either ecologically or politically. We demand an
ecosocial future based on environmental remediation and a new,
European welfare system, empowering the precarious generation that has
been crushed by the Great Recession.
On September 30, ECOFIN, the council of EU finance ministers, will
convene informally to decide the austerity policies, i.e. the large
cuts in public spending, which Merkel and Barroso have decided will be
the grim future of the continent. The first half of 2011 will be
devoted the deployment of weapons of fiscal destruction: the
Commission aims 'to strengthen the functioning of the Stability and
Growth Pact and extend surveillance to macro-economic imbalances'. Van
Rompuy, holding the brand-new post of EU prez, has called for a
'European Semester' to be established with the aim of aligning
national budgets and cut spending across the board, thus worsening the
crisis, adding to unemployment and possibly plunging the economy into
deflation.
Precarious United will be there fighting the Zombies toasting to our
misfortune: monetarism and neoliberalism are intellectually dead, but
the unliving keep terrorising the land. The crisis of the euro has
shown that between monetarist dogma and the keynesian reality of a
demand crisis, euroland's top brass is sticking to the former. We call
on to all Europe's precarious workers, the unemployed, environmental &
anticapitalist activists to smash Ecofin's policies, which are not
only inegalitarian, they actually worsen the crisis. If direct action
is part of your political language, get ready to come to Bruxelles for
a great game against austerity
Brussels, Sept 29-30
No Precarity, No Borders: Fuck Austerity, Smash Ecofin!
http://precarious-united.eu
the storm. The no border camp will already be in full action. It's
attracting activists from all over Europe fighting against the
detention and persecution of immigrants in Europe and the deportation
of Roma people out of France and Italy, which the Vice-President of
the Commission has said it reminded her of WWII ethnic cleansing. The
Great Recession is leading to the scapegoating of migrants, in order
to bolster élites whose legitimacy is fast decreasing.
On September 29, the European Trade Union Confederation is promoting a
large demo in the Brussels' European Quarter, with Spain and other
countries holding general strikes. Precarious United, a transnational
collective emerged out of the EuroMayDay network, will join the demo
by promoting a critical/anticapitalist bloc, which shares the unions'
refusal of austerity policies meted out on Greece and soon to all
European countries, but doesn't believe that "growth and jobs" are a
viable prospect, either ecologically or politically. We demand an
ecosocial future based on environmental remediation and a new,
European welfare system, empowering the precarious generation that has
been crushed by the Great Recession.
On September 30, ECOFIN, the council of EU finance ministers, will
convene informally to decide the austerity policies, i.e. the large
cuts in public spending, which Merkel and Barroso have decided will be
the grim future of the continent. The first half of 2011 will be
devoted the deployment of weapons of fiscal destruction: the
Commission aims 'to strengthen the functioning of the Stability and
Growth Pact and extend surveillance to macro-economic imbalances'. Van
Rompuy, holding the brand-new post of EU prez, has called for a
'European Semester' to be established with the aim of aligning
national budgets and cut spending across the board, thus worsening the
crisis, adding to unemployment and possibly plunging the economy into
deflation.
Precarious United will be there fighting the Zombies toasting to our
misfortune: monetarism and neoliberalism are intellectually dead, but
the unliving keep terrorising the land. The crisis of the euro has
shown that between monetarist dogma and the keynesian reality of a
demand crisis, euroland's top brass is sticking to the former. We call
on to all Europe's precarious workers, the unemployed, environmental &
anticapitalist activists to smash Ecofin's policies, which are not
only inegalitarian, they actually worsen the crisis. If direct action
is part of your political language, get ready to come to Bruxelles for
a great game against austerity
Brussels, Sept 29-30
No Precarity, No Borders: Fuck Austerity, Smash Ecofin!
http://precarious-united.eu 
