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Thessaloniki November 18th 2002

 

The two days deliberations of the European Meeting of  parties, organizations, movements and personalities, organized by ‘’Action: Thessaloniki 2003’’ at the university of Macedonia for the purpose of coordinating their actions, in view of the activities being prepared during the Greek E.U. presidency, culminating in the large international demonstration to be held in Thessaloniki in June 2003, were successfully completed.

 

Delegations from the following countries participated in the Meeting :

BELGIUM: Party of Labour

BULGARIA: Bulgarian Communist Party «Georgi Dimitrov», Bulgarian Socialist Youth Union

GERMANY: Social Forum

DENMARK: Communist Party in Denmark, the movement «STOP THE UNION COPENHAGEN 2002»

GREECE: Communist Party of Greece, Communist Youth of Greece (KNE), Communist Renewal, Democratic Social Movement (DIKKI), Womens’ Federation of Greece (OGE), Greek Federation of Workers in Bottled Drinks (POEEP), Arts Chamber, Movement of Citizens, Federation of Drug Workers, Federation of Pensioners of the IKA Fund, Committee for International Detente and Peace (EDYE-TH), Thessaloniki Building Workers Union, Kozani Building Workers Union, Thessaloniki Tobacco Workers Union, OSNIE, Rodopi Peace Committee, Kavala Peace Committee, Seamens’ Union Stephenson, Greek Federation of Accountants, Lesvos Trades and Labour Council, Agrinio Trades and Labour Council, Thessaloniki Union of Shop Employees, Agricultural Workers Movement (PASY), All Workers Militant Front (PAME), Management Committee of the Department of Psychology Students of Aristotle University, Municipality of Saint Paul, NASY, The Municipal Force of the Thessaloniki Municipality «Thessaloniki Now», Institute of Consumers of Macedonia (INKA), Rally for Peoples Rights and Liberties, Trade Unionists from the Federation of Public Servants (ADEDY) and the Thessaloniki Trades and Labour Council (EKA)

IRELAND: Party of Labour

CYPRUS: Cypriot Workers Federation (PEO), Youth Organisation EDON

RUSSIA: Communist Workers Party of Russia, Trade Union «ZASITA»

SLOVAKIA: Communist Party of Slovakia

TURKEY: Communist Party of Turkey, Party of Labour.

Messages of support and solidarity were sent by:

. The  Socialist Party of Latvia

. The Workers Party of Hungary

. The Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain

. The Socialist Party of Romania

. The Communist Party of Bulgaria

. The New Communist Party of Yugoslavia

. The Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia

. The Union for International Friendship - Solidarity - Understanding and Co-operation of Romania

. The Peace Lovers of Sibiu, Romania

. The Red - Green Alliance of Denmark

. The Forum Copenhagen 2002 of Denmark

            The movement with the completion of the Meetings deliberations issued the following cll to action and militant rallying:

APPEAL

The “Action: Thessalomiki 2003” is a movement that unites political parties, trade unions, youth organisations as well as anti-war movements, associations of farmers, students and women, intellectuals, scientists, artists students and pensioners, movements for democratic rights and international solidarity, migrants.

Our aim is to prepare and welcome in a militant way, the EU Summit, which will be held in June 20-21-22, 2003.

The EU leaders will meet in order to impose new anti-popular measures, to continue and specify previous reactionary decisions, within the framework of capitalist restructuring. The Thessaloniki Summit assumes a special importance because of the decisions concerning the Euro-army. A more reactionary EU is thus sought which is the continuation of the Summits in Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice, a reliable support o NATO, G8 and imperialist globalization.

All these Summits as well as those in Prague, Gothenburg, Genoa, Barcelona, Florence and Copenhagen were met by working people and youth, resisting the New Order of  international Capital. It has now become a conviction that each movement that fights against this policy within its own country, should simultaneously be coordinated and act jointly with the other countries’ movements.

The political representatives of  multinational capital have chosen Thessaloniki in order to underline, in a symbolic way, its role as a city “base of operations” for the promotion of their economic, political and military visions in the Balkans, Central Asia, Middle East and the Mediterranean.

During the Thessaloniki Summit they will attempt to limit the working and social security rights, to further commercialize Health and Welfare, to reduce the agricultural income, aiming at the further increase of profits of the multinational capital and at abolishing what is still left from the national sovereignty, by strengthening further the EU hard core in the decision making process.

We call upon you all to welcome, in a militant way, the architects of the policy of the New Order, of wars, of social cruelty.

We call upon you all to welcome them with mass and multiform mobilizations, starting from today and continuing up to and culminating in June 2003.

From an anti-imperialistic perspective and solidarity, we call upon everyone to a constant struggle against this policy which is directed at the expense of the peoples of the EU Member-states, the Balkans and the whole world.

Thessaloniki as the city of the class struggles of the Working Class, of the great struggles against the dirty war of NATO and the EU in Yugoslavia, should give its own militant answer along with working people of Europe. The movements of workers, farmers, small business people, youth, education, peace, migrants, democratic rights, ecology and culture will meet here, in order to give a strong answer, a clear message of insubordination and counter-attack.

So, we call upon peoples and movements of the Balkans and Europe to participate in these mobilizations in a massive and militant way.

Let us all together strengthen the presence of the militant pole and the perspective of the peoples movement before, during and after the Thessaloniki Summit, in June 2003.

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