Hundreds took part in the Irish demonstration against EU/IMF cuts last Saturday. Speakers included Joe Higgins MEP, Cllr Cieran Perry, Malachy Steenson Workers Party, Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett People Before Profit Alliance, Cllr Louise Minihan Éirigí, Gregor Kerr, WSM, James O'Toole Right To Work Campaign and Shell to Sea.
Following an appeal signed by 16 MEPs from the Left Group in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL), this week (21 to 26 June) has been designated as a "Week of Protest and Solidarity" across Europe - in opposition to the attacks on working people across Europe and in solidarity with the struggle in Greece.
Protest and solidarity actions are taking place across Europe around the demands of:
- Workers, pensioners, the unemployed, students, youth and those socially excluded must not pay for the crisis - Make the super rich and bankers pay
- Solidarity with the working people of Greece and for the unity of working people across Europe
- No cutbacks, wage cuts, unemployment & increases in the retirement age
- No to privatisation of public services
- End the dictatorship of the financial markets, credit ratings institutions and IMF
- Stop the bailouts of the banks - nationalise the banks and financial institutions in the interests of working people
- Explaining the need for united action across Europe, Nikolaos Chountis, MEP for Syriza in Greece, declared:
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European Week of protest and Solidarity in Dublin, 26 June 2010
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