On the 15^th October the “Indignados” movement demonstrated in the streets of Europe and the rest of the world; thousands of people gathered in 951 cities and 82 countries protesting against the thievery of the banks, the cutting of the public budgets and the increasing unemployment.

The huge mobilizations all around the world proved wrong those people who have been saying that this movement was going to disappear very quickly. The massive participation showed the level of anger and rebellion of citizens who are fed up with austerity measures, cuts, evictions and unemployment.

In Rome more than 200.000 people were in the streets protesting and the police violently stopped the manifestation. In Spain, five months after the beginning of the 15-M movement several thousands of people were in Madrid’s square “Puerta del Sol” and in the streets of other 80 cities demanding “no more attacks to our human rights”, “no to the robbery of our retirements” and “make the cuts to the banking system and the church”. In Brussels shoes were thrown towards the stock market building while crying out “your money or your life”. In Switzerland, Great Britain, Finland, Germany, all around Europe and around the world a huge crowd of “indignados” are ready to face the crisis and fight for public services, public health system, public education system, decent jobs, decent housing, and better and just world acting in solidarity.

Today we can say that this movement is a reality. We are conscious of the diversity and heterogeneity of this movement, with all its contradictions which make its authenticity, and today it becomes visible all around the world as a movement that fights against the consequences of the crisis.

This movement is not the solution for all the problems the societies are facing, but a tool with a great potential to deal with the wrongdoings of neoliberal politics and the politicians that caused the crisis. At the same time this movement demands a “real democracy now”, and that governments should serve the needs of the society and of the people as well as an end to the neoliberal economic powers and the capitalist system.

The Party of the European Left participates actively to this movement and learns from its experiences and achievements, and will continue to give its support for a social, democratic and ecologic orientation of Europe.