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We voted against the report on the broad economic policy guidelines of the Member States and the Community in 2001, since these guidelines are entirely geared to the interests and wishes of major employers and are not in the interests of workers.
Even with the amendments, such as those which express environmental concerns or the amendment which proposes introducing a Tobin-style tax on the movement of capital, the text still glorifies the pro-employer, anti-worker policies conducted in the Member States and is approving of the way that the economy is currently run.
We abstained on the last amendment so that our votes will not be confused with those from the most staunch supporters of the
capitalist system, who have voted against the report because they do not even accept capital being taxed by the tiny amount represented by the Tobin tax.
To claim, however, that movement of speculative capital will be controlled by this tax or that it will reduce the volatility of the financial markets is all just a smokescreen.
The huge number of redundancies in some of the largest companies in the European Union proves that it is not just speculative use by large investors that harms the working classes and society
it is capital full stop as well as the economic system, which is driven by profit and the capitalist thirst for making money. What the workers need are measures to protect them from employers’ greed, not symbolic gestures, which actually justify the capitalist management of the economy."@en1
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