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15th May 2013, 21:01
17th May the grand song contest in Europe will be broadcasted from Malmö city in Sweden. A contest with 100s of millions of viewers from all over Europe. They are trying to create an image of Europe and Malmö as business as usual. We will show them, it is not business as usual, there is a war being waged against the working class in Europe and Malmö every day.
Tonight we fight back to shatter the ruling class illusion of class peace and show our Vision for Europe!
http://www.facebook.com/events/437633386330742/
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We are everyone!
Eurovision! What a party! Malmö Town prepares itself; signs with the grand words WE ARE ONE on the city’s advertisement pillars, volunteers are called in, tourist brochures are spread and delegations are taken care of. But, while we are gathering as one a crisis is raging through Europe; Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Cyprus. During one week in Malmö and on TV-screens all over the continent, Europe will meet, as one. Just as the Song Contest we want to show that the whole world is connected, not at least Europe. The system of capitalism has bound us together and made us dependent on each other, not just as countries but also as commodities and markets bound together through the pursuit for profit and lower budgetary deficit. They grow stronger through collaboration, when at the sam time we are put againts each other. The economic crisis is spreading from the South to the North, affecting all of us. The malevolence seen in Greece, Portugal, and Spain that we witness today is the same malevolence that awaits us when the market needs more blood. Then, we will be evicted, fired from our jobs and our educations will be destroyed. Politicians, developers, and magnates in Malmö Town exhibit Malmö for the rest of Europe – showing of Malmö as a knowledge city growing out of the descending industry. But, we want to show a Malmö of solidarity.
So we will celebrate, celebrate our brothers and sisters fighting the crises. They are fighting austerity measures and privatizations of water, electricity, and healthcare. They are fighting wage cuts and evictions. The elite stands united in the time of crisis; governments and capitalists hold each other’s backs. But so do we! We will show a Malmö in conflict that will not turn its head and forget about the problems.
The last years we have seen more and more attacks on the working class. It is easy to believe that the bourgeoise has become too strong. It is easy to believe that they will strike us as hard as they can; do everything they can to hold their positions of power. This is not true. It is the complete contrary. The capitalist production system is in crisis. The capitalists are desperate, brutal, violent, and merciless. It is seen everywhere; in the pay envelopes opened by our nurses; in the eyes of police and politicians pursuing migrants, the sick, and the unemployed. Outside the borders of Sweden this is taken even more tremendous forms; death patrols, Nazis in the parliaments, and killings of union members. The class struggle between capital and the working class is permanent and ongoing, forming our whole lives. Often this is taking peaceful shapes; we are struggling for better conditions, for a little bit more for ourselves. Reforms doesn’t matter, the conflict between us who have to sell our labor and the capitalist class is necessary – the exploitation of our labor is the basis for this capitalist system. Behind every crisis lays the threat of exploding from within.
The economic crisis shows that the system cannot sustain itself anymore. This crisis develops in front of us; workers losing their jobs, evictions, cut wages, worsened pensions and healthcare, and so on. There are no miracles. The state can grant loans and give some extra money to secure some level of social service but sooner or later the budget has to be brought into balance - in the end the proletariat needs to pay. Acute measurements are not going to solve the underlying problems of the crisis. Capitalism is in crisis. The system demands an intensification of the exploitation.
The strength of the capitalist class is their unity; the governments in Europe work together to save the capitalist system. Our rulers speak filthy in these times of class hate from above. Through dishonorable alliances they create better conditions for some of us, and in exchange we are expected to betray and go ahead, letting someone else take care of the mess. But, when the politicians want to blame unemployment on migration, we have to refuse to take part of their political spectacle. When the unions once again choose compromise before conflict with the employers, then we have to organize in new ways. When the city of Malmö wants to renovate, expand, and compete for residents with purchasing power, that is when we have to sit down and refuse to move. We have to take the battle for everyone who has to toil to get by, for EVERYONE regardless of citizenships, language, or gender. All of us are held by the same hard leash of cutting wages, bad schools, and increasing housing costs.
Dear comrades, colleges, and neighbors! The only possibility for us to get out from this soup of hell called capitalism is to collectively demand and together act – and above all; the stronger within the working class have to work for and with those who are in worse position. Fight back all attacks! It is only then that we step by step can reconquer the human dignity that so easily has been taken away from us. Comrades, we know that the sky seems cloudy. We see Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Cyprus, and our own streets. Though we will, in this social ice age, meet for a Europe of solidarity, for a future worth believing in. The struggle for this future echoes through Europe. In Greece a social collective tries to take over the water companies and in Spain the Indignados take over the streets. For these struggles, and more, we will celebrate. We celebrate a united struggle and we will meet for a eurovision on our conditions. The 17th May 10:00 pm we will celebrate a vision beyond crisis, national states, and capitalism. If we cannot dance to schlager it is not our revolution!
Tonight we fight back to shatter the ruling class illusion of class peace and show our Vision for Europe!
http://www.facebook.com/events/437633386330742/
http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/600798_198192660329041_865933483_n.jpg
We are everyone!
Eurovision! What a party! Malmö Town prepares itself; signs with the grand words WE ARE ONE on the city’s advertisement pillars, volunteers are called in, tourist brochures are spread and delegations are taken care of. But, while we are gathering as one a crisis is raging through Europe; Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Cyprus. During one week in Malmö and on TV-screens all over the continent, Europe will meet, as one. Just as the Song Contest we want to show that the whole world is connected, not at least Europe. The system of capitalism has bound us together and made us dependent on each other, not just as countries but also as commodities and markets bound together through the pursuit for profit and lower budgetary deficit. They grow stronger through collaboration, when at the sam time we are put againts each other. The economic crisis is spreading from the South to the North, affecting all of us. The malevolence seen in Greece, Portugal, and Spain that we witness today is the same malevolence that awaits us when the market needs more blood. Then, we will be evicted, fired from our jobs and our educations will be destroyed. Politicians, developers, and magnates in Malmö Town exhibit Malmö for the rest of Europe – showing of Malmö as a knowledge city growing out of the descending industry. But, we want to show a Malmö of solidarity.
So we will celebrate, celebrate our brothers and sisters fighting the crises. They are fighting austerity measures and privatizations of water, electricity, and healthcare. They are fighting wage cuts and evictions. The elite stands united in the time of crisis; governments and capitalists hold each other’s backs. But so do we! We will show a Malmö in conflict that will not turn its head and forget about the problems.
The last years we have seen more and more attacks on the working class. It is easy to believe that the bourgeoise has become too strong. It is easy to believe that they will strike us as hard as they can; do everything they can to hold their positions of power. This is not true. It is the complete contrary. The capitalist production system is in crisis. The capitalists are desperate, brutal, violent, and merciless. It is seen everywhere; in the pay envelopes opened by our nurses; in the eyes of police and politicians pursuing migrants, the sick, and the unemployed. Outside the borders of Sweden this is taken even more tremendous forms; death patrols, Nazis in the parliaments, and killings of union members. The class struggle between capital and the working class is permanent and ongoing, forming our whole lives. Often this is taking peaceful shapes; we are struggling for better conditions, for a little bit more for ourselves. Reforms doesn’t matter, the conflict between us who have to sell our labor and the capitalist class is necessary – the exploitation of our labor is the basis for this capitalist system. Behind every crisis lays the threat of exploding from within.
The economic crisis shows that the system cannot sustain itself anymore. This crisis develops in front of us; workers losing their jobs, evictions, cut wages, worsened pensions and healthcare, and so on. There are no miracles. The state can grant loans and give some extra money to secure some level of social service but sooner or later the budget has to be brought into balance - in the end the proletariat needs to pay. Acute measurements are not going to solve the underlying problems of the crisis. Capitalism is in crisis. The system demands an intensification of the exploitation.
The strength of the capitalist class is their unity; the governments in Europe work together to save the capitalist system. Our rulers speak filthy in these times of class hate from above. Through dishonorable alliances they create better conditions for some of us, and in exchange we are expected to betray and go ahead, letting someone else take care of the mess. But, when the politicians want to blame unemployment on migration, we have to refuse to take part of their political spectacle. When the unions once again choose compromise before conflict with the employers, then we have to organize in new ways. When the city of Malmö wants to renovate, expand, and compete for residents with purchasing power, that is when we have to sit down and refuse to move. We have to take the battle for everyone who has to toil to get by, for EVERYONE regardless of citizenships, language, or gender. All of us are held by the same hard leash of cutting wages, bad schools, and increasing housing costs.
Dear comrades, colleges, and neighbors! The only possibility for us to get out from this soup of hell called capitalism is to collectively demand and together act – and above all; the stronger within the working class have to work for and with those who are in worse position. Fight back all attacks! It is only then that we step by step can reconquer the human dignity that so easily has been taken away from us. Comrades, we know that the sky seems cloudy. We see Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Cyprus, and our own streets. Though we will, in this social ice age, meet for a Europe of solidarity, for a future worth believing in. The struggle for this future echoes through Europe. In Greece a social collective tries to take over the water companies and in Spain the Indignados take over the streets. For these struggles, and more, we will celebrate. We celebrate a united struggle and we will meet for a eurovision on our conditions. The 17th May 10:00 pm we will celebrate a vision beyond crisis, national states, and capitalism. If we cannot dance to schlager it is not our revolution!