In country after country in Europe, the
people are rising up against the financial/corporate Mafia and its
drive to sweatshop Europe. Yesterday, September 14, in Poland, between
100,000 and 120,000 people took to the streets of Warsaw. Armed with
banners, drums, whistles, smoke bombs and chants, they brought the
city to a standstill. The marches started four days previously and
marchers from all over the country converged on the capital Warsaw on
Friday. Some of the protester had camped in front of parliament since
Wednesday. The complaint is a familiar one, it was not a Polish
problem, it was the European problem. They were objecting to the
retirement age being raised to 67, the average monthly wage being
among the lowest in Europe, and new legislation attacking working
conditions, allowing longer daily and weekly working hours. No matter
the country, no matter the government in power, be it Labour,
Conservative, Christian Democrat, Liberal, or whatever, the policies
are all the same, an attack on the living conditions of the ordinary people,
the creation of a Europe wide cheap workforce. The European
corporate machine has to compete with the Eastern sweatshop
economies and you and I must pay the price. Of course there is
another way, the demolition of this unjust, exploitative, greed and
profit driven system called capitalism and the creation of a needs
based society built on mutual aid, voluntary co-operation and free
association, founded on equality and sustainability. It is up to us.
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