In the first meeting for the citizens’ initiative promotes by the European Left Party the message was determined and clear: stop with precariousness in labor, dignity to the workers.

Gathering at Casa da Música in Porto, members of eleven countries of European Left Party listened the economists, unionists and social activists opinions to create a working base funded on the real necessities of the people trough the use of the new intervention instrument at European level.

Citizens’ initiative is a new instrument at an European level introduced by the Lisbon Treaty and that allows that legislative initiatives might get to the European Comission, as long as they are subscribed by one million citizens from at least one third of the countries of the Union.

The meeting in Porto has initiated a round of debates that took place in several European cities to listen the society and to promote a truth civic action, using a new mechanism that will allow citizen’s to intervene for the first time in the European legislation.

The campaign from the European Left Party want to “engage in a fight, at an European level, mobilizing people that have suffered with the crisis and giving guarantees that it is possible to act against savagery of the markets”, defended Francisco Louçã.

Even if the project of the initiative can only be delivered in 2012 the beginning of mobilizing must start immediately to unite the necessary conditions to the creation of a great mass movement in a European level, “with a truth campaign to unify the social and civic movement that we need in defense of the social State and the decent labor”, stated Henrique Sousa from the ATTAC.

With two millions precarious workers and 600 thousand unemployed, Portugal has suffered today one of the biggest social setbacks ever: “indecent and unworthy work proliferated, neglecting the young, that constitute the future of the country. But this campaign can help to regain the EU matrix in its social and convergent character”, noted Ulisses Garrido from CGTP.

“Precariousness and work have been hand-in-hand and there is now time to end this union”, said MEP and vice-president of European Left Party, Marisa Matias.

Next week, it will take place in Athens the second initiative of the campaign, following in April and May in Hungry, Spain and France and in the second semester of the year Italy and Germany.