Workers' unity across Europe to resist the attacks: “we will not pay for the bosses’ crisis!” . Support Greek general strike

Statement of European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) MEPs in solidarity with Greek and all European workers

While governments in Europe are divided on how to deal with the deepening crisis in the eurozone, they are all united about who should pay for this crisis. The establishment is committed to making working class people right across Europe pay for the capitalist crisis - through cutbacks in public services and a slashing of wages.

Greek workers are currently subject to savage assaults on their living standards. Workers in Portugal, Spain and Ireland all face similar attacks, as do working people throughout Europe .

We want to send out a clear message of solidarity to all European workers, pensioners and young people. We oppose the attempts by the European establishment to whip up nationalist tensions to divide us. Instead, we stress the need for international action to defend the interests of working people.

We call for a united stand of workers across Europe to respond to the IMF, the international financial markets and the neo-liberal politicians in Europe with the declaration: "We will not pay for your crisis."

We support the planned general strike action in Greece on 5 May and call for international solidarity actions on that date as a step towards major European-wide mobilisations against the crisis and the attacks on workers.

•Workers' solidarity across Europe with Greek workers who are under attack.
•No to the dictatorship of the financial markets, credit ratings institutions and the IMF.
•Unity of all workers across Europe - we will not pay for the bosses' crisis!