arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)
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Wereldjongerenfestival interventie in "Thematical Centre" over E.U. by Wouter Van Damme Wednesday August 15, 2001 at 11:57 PM |
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Hieronder tref je de speech aan die Jeannk, 18 jaar jong, in het "Thematical Centre nr.2 on Neo-liberal globalisation and development", tijdens het Vijftiende Wereldjongerenfestival in Algiers, naar voor bracht. Jeannk sprak in naam van de PVDA-jongeren.
"I would like to greet all comrades present here today.
Since the collapse of the socialist states in Eastern Europe, imperialist powers find great pleasure in calling our era ‘the end of history'. By saying this they hope to poison the peoples minds and make them believe that the current exploitation and oppression is definitive and that capitalism is the system nearest to perfection.
I would like to invite these ideologists to go and take a look in the former Soviet Union where production has dropped by 50% and poverty is increasing daily. It is the duty of all the progressive and communist forces to expose these lies and to continue the fight for a better world where all the people can live as equals.
After Seattle, Prague, Göteborg, Barcelona and Genoa, we want to mobilise all the anti-imperialistic youth to come and protest in Brussels on the 14th of December against the meeting of the European Union leaders.
The true purpose of the European Union is to become an economical and military power strong enough to oppose the United States of America, in order to strengthen the European multinationals in their every demands and so to decrease the social conditions of the common people.
Even more terrifying is the fact that in the long run the tension between the different imperialist powers will lead us into a war of massive proportion.
The social democratic parties, which have the power in most of the European countries, have found a particular liking in claiming that they want to reform the European Union into a social Europe, the EU as an international institution that can block the power of the multinationals. It is however remarcable that they are part of the leading staff of the multiationals.
For instance the Belgian social democrat Karel van Miert, who was the former European commissioner for concurrence policy, is now manager for Philips, Agfa Gevaert and Swissair. This isn't the only example by far of the tight bounds between the multinationals and EU institutions.
That's why we ask all true anti-imperialists to come to Brussels on the14th of December to join us in our struggle for a Socialist Europe.
Thank you."