On Friday, June 10th, the European Left met in Barcelona, for the public services seminar. Intended to address to the current situation provoked by the recent capitalist attacks across Europe and aggravated by the pact for the euro and the Lisbon agreement, and to block the way for the right wing politics trough the creation of a common front in Europe. Greece, France, Portugal, Cyprus and Switzerland and Spain were represented in a debate that analysed the different realities of public services and identified the similarities of its “destruction” policies.

It was said that the public services is some kind of “DNA” that identifies the true model of the social Europe that we seek, which is the only way to promote and respond to the business environment reality driven by ultra-liberal Europe.
 
The discussion reiterated the need to understand public services cuts as an attack against democracy and against the possibility of living happily in a structured society, free of xenophobia and free of the fascism threats.
 
EL noted that the most attacked sectors are those of education, health, and welfare, the three pillars of the welfare state which are now experiencing an unprecedented dismantling and being further accelerated by privatizations.

The EL calls on the union of the workers of these three sectors and other citizens for a common defence of our common well being.

Collecting millions of signatures throughout the year 2012 to support the European Citizens' Initiative, which aims to create a European Social Fund, will be a decisive step to this fight and to face the capitalist enemy.

Read the conclusions on EL Public services seminar here