The EL summer university started yesterday with the greeting of Grigore Petrenco, international secretary of the CPRM of Moldavia,to all the participants coming from all over Europe, from Portugal to Belarus, and emphasized that it was very important to realize this event in Chisinau where the Constitution suffered a big harassment and the will of the majority is being undemocratically and illegitimated rejected.

Maite Mola, from Communist Party of Spain, spoke on the crisis of the civilization and the neo-liberal and capitalism attacks as the main goals to fight against, remembering the day of fight scheduled to the 29th of September as an important event to broaden through all the European countries and to show on which side the power is.

The global crisis and the unlimited consume provoked the reduction of goods and the change of the relation between developed and undeveloped countries. “These relations are unbalanced and need to be regulated by national regulation. The current society has information as a valuable product ready to be sold. Economy is based on services and the global road was created to bring the products to a global system in a global era trough the new technologies, without considering the cultural and socio-economical environment of each country”, defended Mark Tkaciuk from the Communist Party of Moldova.

“But what will replace this system?, asked E. Gautier, from Transform! Network. The financial crisis led us a big depression with a huge public debt and austerity measures that cannot represent a solution. Enormous powers are concentrated in the hands of people living off unearned income and shareholders are organised in groups. The capitalist system originated an extreme unbalance of powers that persists in global finance and creates the deregulation and privatization. From the social side, the salaries of workers were extremely penalised and the wealth distribution becomes even more disproportionate. 

“The crisis is not seen as a moment anymore, it became the normality and it is affecting our democratic values and Left wing has always fought for equality between people and we have the responsibility of trying to make the things better, we cannot merely accept what it is being imposed now without resisting”, defended Rui Tavares, MEP from Left Bloc. The Left is postponing the debates on the important issues. Democracy and Equality should be in the centre of the discussion and the gender differences cannot be forgotten in this critical moment.

“The struggle has to include women as a fundamental way to overcome from the crisis, and we want a new construction of the society and not just a part of it. The number of women suffering from discrimination and violence in many forms, including the degrading situation of migrant women has to be seen as a priority of our common fight, enhanced Hilde Grammel from Austria.