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"en.20121025.36.4-585-000"2
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"Madam President, the Nobel Peace Prize committee clearly either has a devious sense of humour or a fundamental misunderstanding of the word ‘peace’, because three years ago they gave it to the drone warrior Obama. Three years later they want to give it to the EU, which is an institution or group of institutions, together with right-wing governments across Europe, waging what can only be described as class war on working people.
Austerity is their weapon of choice in that war, and that weapon is being wielded absolutely viciously on behalf of the bankers, bondholders, big business and the rich against workers across Europe, for us to pay for their crisis. But now they are facing a simultaneous and massive fightback. Greek workers have been joined on the front line by workers from Spain and Portugal, with millions protesting across Europe in the past weeks.
Very significantly, united, general strike action will take place in Greece, Spain, Portugal, Malta and Cyprus on 14 November. This must be added to by mass protests in other countries across Europe. That date, 14 November, can go down in history as the day that workers across Europe stood up and said ‘no’ to austerity. It must leave the Troika in no doubt about the determination of workers to resist, and their power to do so, and it can be the vital next step in building Europe-wide general strike action to stop their austerity agenda."@en1
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