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"In an ΕU created at the demand of the big multinationals and which serves their interests, there can be no social prosperity for the working classes and no safeguarding of the rights of workers, women, young people, the disabled or the elderly. The proof is that approximately one quarter of the population in the ΕU is living below the poverty line.
The interest in wiping out poverty is hypocritical. The objective is to conceal the barbarity of capitalist exploitation behind ‘charity’ programmes and to avoid acute social outbursts. The so-called social agenda is being implemented by extending flexibility and temporary work, by prolonging active working life, with lifelong learning, by reducing wages and linking them to productivity and by cutting back on the welfare state and social protection and on public spending on health and education.
Capitalism needs hoards of unemployed, which is why the objective of full employment is a total misnomer. Especially today, under conditions of unbridled competition and company restructurings and relocations, which lead to mass job losses. An attempt is being made to untie this Gordian knot with part-time and temporary employment and by sharing jobs between several workers.
We therefore call on the workers, the working classes and the progressive radical forces in the countries of the ΕU to fight against the choices being made by the monopolies and to claim a different, pro-grass roots policy."@en1
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