Article by Rui Paz, collaborator of the International Department
Germany and Portugal’s parliament elections’ results, on the 27th last , proved that serving
capitalism is not rewarding . Such a task or option might bring personal advantages for those who, once defeated or removed from the government or parliament by the electors, are rewarded with well paid jobs within the great companies and banks administrations. However, many times, this drives to the parties and the political forces’ weakening or even self-destruction, which are used to deceive and oppress the peoples and the workers.
Social-Democracy in Germany, upon 11 years of social horrors and an anti-democratic and militarist policy, achieved the worst electoral result, of the Federal Republic’s history ( at the start of the seventies, the SDP achieved 55%). Christian-Democracy, the traditional party, closely linked with the great exploiting and militaristic capital interests, carried on loosing votes and remained in the second worse result ever (33,8%).
To understand this electoral cataclysm, it is necessary to be aware, that only between 2004 and 2007, the real loss of salaries net value was 4,2%, while the 30 monopolist main groups detaining stock exchange prices in Frankfurt’s stock market, increased 185%. Notwithstanding the fabulous profits, industrial and financial empires, such as Nokia, Siemens, Continental, Henkel and BMW, continue dismissing tens of thousand workers, unprotected by a policy, built under a parasite minority’s interests of great shareholders.
The Liberals’ prominent growth, who benefited from powerful means, reserved for the great capital, does not spare these elections from being pointed out by the total discredit of the social-democracy right-wing policy and " The Left" party’s growth (11,9%), four magic mottos being sufficient to achieve a good electoral result: no to retirement at 67; no to the Hartz IV measures, which reintroduced compulsory slave work for the unemployed; no to the 2010 agenda, initiated by chancellor Schroeder and no to foreign military interventions.
Twenty years upon the so-called Germany "reunification", real capitalism goes beyond in its cruelty, all one could possibly imagine in the years 1989 and 1990. The SDP and the Christian-Democracy, which, during the Democratic German Republic existence always proclaimed that the West German workers were the most qualified, having the highest productivity and rentability levels, following the ending of socialism in the east, and in less than 24 hours, the very same workers became the most sickly, expensive, inadequate. Kohl declared that Germany could not continue being a " a diversion park" and Schoeder, the employers comrade, drew insults calling them "lazy". Currently, Schoeder works for a great German-Russian monopoly, his yearly income being one million Euros and Kohl is the German citizen who receives the highest amount of State retirements, within the Republic, with about 40 000 Euros monthly.
The elections which took place on the 27th last, proved that history has not come to an end, and that a lot is stirring. It is within this framework, with a growing awareness of the popular masses and the refusal of a policy which drives the peoples towards the brink of ruin, that the communists, together with their biddings and ideals, their struggle and resistance historical experience, will continue having a decisive role in the rupture with the capitalist system’s inhumane logic and in coming across with solutions which will open the way unto socialism.
