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Claiming that the airlines are suffering as a result of the 11 September attacks on the United States is a barefaced lie. Although some carriers have had problems, these are not new and not all airlines are in that position. Far from it. Air France’s share dividends, for example, have increased by 22%, and this happened three days after the attacks on New York and Washington. It has just bought out Air Afrique and brought Alitalia under its wing as well as the Czech airline CSA. And, like other large European airlines, it is also doing very well out of the bankruptcies of AOM-Air Liberté, Sabena and Swissair.
This is the result of giving free rein to the market, which national and European leaders claim should govern everything, the economy and the fate of workers. In recent years in Europe, this has led to hundreds of thousands of job losses in the air transport sector alone, which does not cause national and European leaders to bat an eyelid because huge profits are consequently pocketed by the companies’ shareholders, such as the incredibly wealthy Baron Seillière, the French “bosses’ boss”.
The attacks of 11 September have simply been an excuse for the capitalists in the air transport sector to receive new subsidies while pursuing their offensive against their employees. And they have been aided and protected in this endeavour by the various national governments. We have seen this again recently in France, in Belgium and in Switzerland with companies going bankrupt and sacking tens of thousands of employees, at no cost at all to the key players who are largely responsible for these bankruptcies, such as Baron Seillière.
We have, therefore, voted against this motion for a resolution which is cynical enough to claim that it is for the sake of employment that it wants to give further subsidies to the companies and capitalists in the air transport sector, who are already responsible for making hundreds of thousands of people redundant."@en1
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