Right To Work demonstration, Wednesday June 23rd , 6.30pm, Mansion House Dublin – Annual IBEC Dinner addressed by An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen
National Demonstration, Saturday June 26th, 1pm, Central Bank Plaza, Dublin – Stop the Bail-outs, Oppose EU/IMF cuts, End the Dictatorship of the Markets
“Its time for working people of the so-called PIGS and other European countries to take to the streets against the real PIGS – the corporate and financial elites that have wrecked our economy and still have their snouts firmly buried in the trough.” Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit Alliance (pictured above).
At a press conference held in Dublin, the People Before Profit Alliance (PBPA) , along with other left organisations called for a mass mobilisation in Ireland in support of the European week of solidarity and protest called by left organisations and MEP’s across Europe, due to take place between the 21st and 26th of June.
PBPA said that it was vitally necessary to mobilise mass opposition to the plans of the Irish and European governments to unload the cost of the current economic crisis on working people, the poor and the vulnerable in society.
PBPA said that economic policies being persued by Europe’s rulers were deeply unfair, socially unjust and would deepen the economic crisis and amounted to protecting the wealthy elites who created the current economic crisis at the expense of society as a whole.
PBPA said that as part of the European week of protest, they would be putting considerable resources into mobilising for the Right To Work demonstration on June 23rd (6.30pm) at the annual IBEC dinner in the Mansion House that will be addressed by Taoiseach Brian Cowen, and the national demonstration in Dublin on Saturday March 26th (1pm, Central Bank Plaza) which has been sponsored by a coalition of left organisations.
Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett of the People Before Profit Alliance said:
“It is vitally important that working people and their organisations in this country and across Europe act together to resist the onslaught of attacks being unleashed by the political, banking and corporate elites of Europe. These super-wealthy vampires and their political servants, who created the current crisis by promoting “light touch regulation,” financial speculation and privatisation, now wish to unload the cost of the crisis they created onto working people, the poor and the vulnerable.
The prescriptions of Europe’s masters for dealing with the crisis are not only deeply unfair, in that they target those with no responsibility for the current crisis, but they are also economically insane. Their slash and burn policies will not aid recovery but deepen the recession – increasing unemployment, further deflating the economy and accelerating the downward spiral. Incredibly, even after all that has occurred, the madmen running the Irish economy and that in Europe are still promoting privatisation when this policy lies at the heart of crisis we now face. As ever, their economic policies are all about protecting the wealthy at the expense of society as a whole – even now seeking only to profit from the disaster created by their own greed.
It is time for ordinary people across Europe to rise up against the banking, corporate and political elites responsible for the economic disaster we now face. We must insist that protecting the jobs, living standards and public services of working people takes priority over bailing out the banks and super-wealthy few. We need a root and branch challenge to the “for profit” economy and must demand a democratic and rational economy that is planned in the interests of society as a whole. Only people power on the streets of this country and across Europe can avert further economic calamity and ensure real social justice. Its time for working people of the so-called PIGS and other European countries to take to the streets against the real PIGS – the corporate and financial elites that still have their snouts firmly buried in the trough
So we urge those angry at PIGS breakfast our rulers have made of our economy to take to the streets at the PIGS dinner on June 23rd and then to march again in the national demonstration on Saturday march 26th.”
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