Operation Piggy Bank
Escalating Conflicts are causing the European House to Falter
By Tomasz Konicz
Full article: http://communism.blogsport.eu/2011/11/02/operation-piggy-bank/
The conflicts within the German government coalition and the increasing tensions at the European level are closely intertwined. The conflicts are escalating on the one hand due to an abundance of intensifying, mutually opposed interests: what is central is Berlin’s refusal – resulting from domestic political pressure – to introduced further reaching measures in order to stabilize the eurozone.
[...] Thus the “crisis trap” also closes its jaws In the EU: politicians would
actually have to implement stimulus programs in order to stimulate a sagging economy, and at the same time impose harsh austerity measures in
order to stabilize the budget situation. [...]
In the crisis, as a result of the collapse of this deficit cycle, there is a looming threat of a relapse into chauvinism, nationalism, barbarism. The left is thus confronted with the task of opposing these reactionary tendencies, organizing and coordinating the struggle against
the capitalist crisis on a global level – and fighting for an alternative system, in which – along with capital and the state – artificial national borders belong to the dustbin of history. The construction of transnational or global organizational and social structures – a task at which capitalism can only fail – has to be placed
on the agenda by the left, in light of the numerous global problems confronting humanity. Future struggles must also be conducted globally.
Some approaches are already becoming manifest in the Occupy Wall Street movement, which is aiming precisely for such a global coordination and organization of the struggle.