Translated "Avante!" article by Rui Paz, member of the PCP Internacional Department

In its 2011 report, the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council demands Germany for a consistent concept on the fight against poverty. Among other measures, it is asked to Angela Merkel’s government to ensure the accession to sufficient food for large families’children.

Also in Germany, and in the sequence of the capitalist accumulation policies, a more and more significant part of the population is being thrown unto poverty. The number of people living under poverty’s breaking point amounts to more than eleven million, around 14,5% of the population. But money has not vanished. It has just changed hands. The number of German millionaires, which in 1999 was 365.000, will reach a million this current year. Their Fortunes increased 51% in the last decade, while the work salaries lost, in average, 2,5% . According to the German Economic Research Institute study (DIW), the loss down reaches 22%, in the last 10 years. Therefore, it is of an extreme cynicism, when the chancellor and the great capital accuse the workers and the peoples of living above their means, knowing they are the victims of the plunder policies’ devastating effects, the economic, social and labor disaster, imposed by the European Union great powers directorate, for years, under Berlin’s command.

“Handelsblatt”, a Dusseldorf daily paper (19/20 .08.2011), under titled as “Germany’s economic and financier newspaper” in an article, which occupies the whole front page, rejoices because “Europe’s weakness is Germany’s strength” and “ currently, there is no doubt Europe cannot Be Greek, Italian nor even French” ( but German). And that German imperialist pole bluff, proceeds, emphasizing that“ Germany ought to make Europe possible .Free market, monetary union ,political integration deepening correspond to the German interests. But Germany must not break up itself”, in the process. The European home is too fragile to live within in the future”. Besides, the European Treasury minister is not seated in Brussels.

But in Berlin. The real head of the economic government is not Mr. Van Rompuy, but the German finance minister. Never, as currently, the German and European interests have been as confounded. The path unto Europe, moves pass Berlin, or goes nowhere”.

In order to collaborate in this colonial nature farce, of imperialist rule, to betray Portugal’s, the peoples and the Portuguese workers’ interests, Passos Coelho, repeating Socrates’s ritual, travelled to Berlin, last week, to pay vassalage, receive orders and the usual chancellor Merkel’s cajolery. In Portugal, traitors ( Migueis Vasconcelos) have not vanished with the Duchess of Mantova’s escape unto Spain nor with the Phillips’ power ending.

For years, the PCP, through the voice of all its Secretary-Generals and the Central Committee’s Documents, has alerted for the national disaster, conducted by the troika parties, the PS;PSD and the CDS-PP CDS-PP . Jeronimo de Sousa, from his stand at the AVANTE FESTIVAL!, made it clear, once again, that “what is in progress is nothing but a gigantic run beyond, with the unique purpose of saving the great capital profits ,safeguard the great powers interests, emphasizing Germany and attempting to rescue the Euro, through the imposing of economic and political relations , of colonial nature, within the European Union space”.

But, the PCP’s Secretary-General, also warned the national and international reaction . That the the Party shall not fall “ into the speech trap of “ more of the European Union to overcome the crisis ”and the struggle will be intensified for another workers’ and peoples’ Europe. A Europe in the defense of democracy, social justice, peoples’sovereignty effective cooperation and solidarity among sovereign states and equal rights and duties”.