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The European Council has confirmed the measures previously adopted which are intended to rescue financial capital, the backbone of the capitalist system, and ensure ‘continued structural reform’.
The ‘recasting of capitalism’ simply means more capitalism – with all its unhealthy contradictions – more exploitation of workers, more liberalisation and privatisation of public services and more work income transferred to capital, a policy which the Socialist Government in Portugal is faithfully implementing.
However, there has not been one word about:
the growing difficulties faced by workers and the general population, increasing salaries and social security benefits, reducing the prices of essential goods and services, or effectively curbing rising mortgage costs;
the promotion of productive investment, employment rights, public services and a strong public business sector – as in banking – through a fair distribution of the wealth created;
the end of the EU’s current monetary policy and its Stability Pact, the end of ‘tax havens’, and the reinforcement and use of structural funds to ensure effective economic development and improve the living conditions of workers.
In other words, there has been nothing about a break with capitalist policies …"@en1
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