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<h2 class="posttitle">La déclaration – Bloquer les causeurs et
profiteurs de la crise</h2>
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<p lang="fr-FR">Pendant de longues annees les banques et cartels
ont empoché des profits de 15 – 20% sans être utiles pour la
sociéte. Soudain, le secteur bancaire et financier a amené
l’économie mondiale au bord de la ruine. La crise est
mondiale. Autant dire que pour le plupart de l’humanité c’est
depuis longtemps le faim, la répression et la guerre.
Maintenant la crise est arrivée aux metropoles.</p>
<p lang="fr-FR">Les gouvernements du monde sont intervenus et
ont sauvé les banques privées avec des milliards. En Allemagne
avec 500 milliards d’Euro.</p>
<p lang="fr-FR">Actuellement on pressure ces milliards offerts
aux banques et cartels, ont été prélevés sur les salariés et
chômeurs. Dans presque tous les pays d’Euro les gouvernements
decident des programmes d‘urgence et d‘appauvrissement.</p>
<p lang="fr-FR">Le gouvernement allemand veut diminuer le budget
de l’état d‘ environ 80 milliards pendant les trois prochaines
annees. 37% de ce budget de rigueur touchent le secteur
social.</p>
<p lang="fr-FR">Les buts sont clairs. Presser les salariés plus
fort (par exemple la retraite à l’age de 67 ans, diminution de
‚Hartz 4‘ (RSA), destruction d’assurances-maladies,
intimidation plus forte des chômeurs (par exemple supprimer le
supplement de chauffage et le supplement familial pour les
gens qui ont seulement ‚Hartz4‘ = RSA) et plus de
privatisations de la propriété publique jusqu’à la ruine des
communes.</p>
<p lang="fr-FR"><strong>Ça suffit – Soulèvement!</strong></p>
<p>»Maintenant il est temps. Maintenant c’est à nous. Le premier
devoir du peuple après avoir reçu le SPARPAKET du gouvernement
conservative–liberale, c‘est: soulèvement – toute de suite!(…)
C’est en première ligne contre les socialement faibles. Ceux
qui ont déjà le moins devraient payer le plus. Merkel et
Westerwelle peuvent parler de fairness et balance comme ils
veulent. La vérité est: ils mentent. Et encore pire: ils le
savent.«</p>
<p><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>(commentaire de
FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU, 08.06.2010)</em></span></p>
<p><strong>Pression </strong><strong>sur la base</strong></p>
<p>Tout le monde sait que ›Nous ne payons pas pour votre crise‹
est déjà depassé par la realité. Si nous voulons prendre cette
citation au sérieux, nous devons faire plus que des
manifestations de foule. Nous devons changer la direction.
Nous devons en finir avec le symbolisme. Nous devons veiller à
faire passer la peur de l’autre côté.</p>
<p lang="fr-FR">Nous avons besoin d’un plan pour montrer et
suivre le chemin entre manifs sans conséquences et les rêves
d’une grêve générale.</p>
<p><strong>Nous proposons: dans l’Allemagne entière une action
d’indocilité civique </strong><strong>de façon à paralyser
le point de jonction du monde de la finance à Francfort/Main
pendant un jour ouvre.</strong></p>
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<p lang="fr-FR"> ENGLISH:</p>
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<p>“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the
rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
Multibillionaire Warren Buffet, New York Times, 2006</p>
<p>Class warfare – that’s the kind of language the majority
don’t want to hear and don’t understand. But we’ve come to
feel it. Like in other European countries, wages and
pensions have been cut, contract and temporary work have
been systematized, the low-paid sector and the numbers of
working poor expanded, working hours lengthened and life
compressed.</p>
<p>First profits went through the roof, 15 or even 20 percent
were the norm, even more in the financial sector, where
gains of 50 to 150 percent within minutes were no exception.
It was one big party in the business and wellness sectors.</p>
<p>Then the first banks started toppling like a pack of cards,
a worldwide collapse of capitalism was impending. Those who
had shouted the loudest about the “market’s self-heeling
forces” shut up. The state undertook the salvage of the
private banking sector, pumping over 500 billion Euros into
the system.</p>
<p>Now the billions of Euros spent on keeping the banks and
the companies afloat are being squeezed out of the wage
earners and the unemployed. Practically all countries of the
Euro zone have passed shock and poverty programmes. The
rulers at least are agreed: We will not pay for our crisis
as long as those who have always been made to bleed keep
quiet.</p>
<p>The right-wing coalition government wants to cut the budget
by 80 billion Euros over the coming three years. 37 percent
of the cuts are in welfare. The word fairness here would be
completely out of place. We need no further analysis, no
long discussions. Let’s stop complaining about the
ruthlessness in social terms of their project. No time left
for ineffective threats. We need to act now.</p>
<p>Under the popular slogan “We’re not paying for your
crisis”, two demonstrations, in Berlin and Stuttgart, went
ahead on June 12th. But the effective mobilisation, the
disagreements within the coalition and their outcome were
characterized more by political stagnation than inspiration
and new perspectives.</p>
<p>We all know that the slogan “We’re not paying for your
crisis” has been overtaken by reality. If we want to conduct
our fight in earnest on this common basis, then we need to
do more than just gather large numbers of people on the
streets. We must change course, leave symbolics behind and
ensure that fear changes sides. It is high time the winds
start blowing in the other direction, so that the fire
doesn’t burn down the huts any more, but the palaces of the
arsonists.</p>
<p>We have plenty of reasons. And plenty of proclamations.
This one for instance: “Stand up. Now! When, if not now? The
citizens’ first duty after publication of the programme of
cuts by the coalition government is to stand up now! … The
cuts are aimed primarily at the weak and the poor. Those who
have least are to give up the most. Merkel and Westerwelle
talk of fairness and balance. But these are lies. And they
know it. (Frankfurter Rundschau, 8.6.2010)</p>
<p>Let us spare ourselves long-winded proclamations. What is
needed is to give the prevailing anger a direction, a
location and a chance. So that the anger doesn’t eat into
us. So that our feeling of powerlessness stops dominating
our daily lives.</p>
<p>“We refuse to be your cashpoints”</p>
<p>As part of a national campaign we propose the blockade of
two “systemic banks”, the Deutsche Bank and the Commerzbank
in Frankfurt, on a weekday. Our aim is to interrupt their
running, to turn the business party on its head and put it
back on its feet again. Our demands are quite simple: You
must pay the trillions of Euros which your financial war has
cost. We will give you no peace, we will come back again and
again, in all places, at the most improper times.</p>
<p>Such a national appeal is not the end of the story. It can
only be a beginning, the signal for a whole series of
actions. In all cities, week after week, a bank carrying
“systemic risks” must be besieged. It is a long, open road
passing by banks and their stakes in corporations right up
to the political think tanks in government headquarters.</p>
<p>We need a joint start signal, a long wind and a concept
allowing for the participation of the largest numbers of
people possible. We need a concept which steers us on a
course away from inconsequential trouble-free demonstrations
on the one hand and fantasies of insurrection or general
strike on the other.</p>
<p>We are convinced that analyses and demands either to curb
or to overcome capitalism abound in Germany. But the
correctness of analyses and demands will not be decided on
on paper or at conferences, but in the course of a social
process which turns the largest possible number of people
into active subjects. If we manage within the framework of a
broad coalition to reverse the tables and instill Angst into
those who have been playing on our fears for so many years
and living off them, this would give us enough time to
discuss and decide upon our next steps. We propose the
following central slogans as a common slate for our
protests:</p>
<ul>
<li>immediate enactment of a special tax on financial
transactions</li>
<li>taxation of fortunes over and above one million to the
tune of 5%</li>
<li>immediate implementation of the demand for 500 Euro
basic social security, 10 Euro minimum wage and a 30-hour
week without loss of pay</li>
</ul>
<p>As common basis for action we propose to orientate
ourselves on the successful Dresden concept against the Nazi
demonstration in January 2010. It combined purposefulness
with broadness, radicalism with a mass approach in a
productive, non competitive way. It was a concept which was
palpable for many already in Heiligendamm in 2007, which
succeeded in Dresden 2010 and which will convey a new
quality of resistance to the Castor protests against the
transport of nuclear wastes.</p>
<p>We suggest the autumn of 2010 as a central focus of action,
in Frankfurt. We would like to ask you to impart your
agreement or disagreement with this proposal. Agreement on
the general direction, not the details, which remain to be
discussed jointly.</p>
<p>Depending on the outcome, we will organize an action
conference on Saturday, August 21st, in Frankfurta.</p>
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<p>May the winds change.</p>
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