The privatization of the pensions and the interested journalist

Look at Etxezarreta he has studying for many years the topic of the pensions. In fact, I believe that his first alerts on the topic must already have almost twenty years. The teacher of economic policy of the UAB was of the first ones in realizing the voracious appetite that the public pensions funds were waking up for banks and private financiers, the enormous possibility of speculation that were losing the carroñeros, and how profitable could become for these speculators to turn a few sure pensions (that were removing the biggest retired persons of the risk of dependency and an absolute instability) in a new game of roulette where it is already known that the banking always wins and the poor always lose.

Today, in Public, they publish an interview immediately after his recent book on the topic. The economist declares that "it does not see for any side the danger of the pensions", and he says very sensible things on why it must not be any dogma to balance this account (supposing that it is not, that it is, and many years) when com does not demand the same, for example, the Budget of the Royal house from itself. Look it is shelling, peacefully, the truths to a journalist that it cannot catch it in false, and is splendid because he knows what he says, because he has studying it for years and nobody ever cheated it with these "signs of alert" that the offices of study of banks and boxes to the watching publish periodically to sow the alarm... hoping that with his lies it should mature another fat privatization more.

Well, like the answers of Miren they are clear and round, there is no any more space for the confusion than in the subtitle. You repair what he says: "A slightly conventional look on the problems of the public system of pensions, which for her are only interested myths." If we analyze it thoroughly:

- Slightly conventional look (look at what that one red says...)
- on the problems of the public system of pensions (but he is not saying and does not demonstrating Etxezarreta Looks that there are no problems!)
- that for her are only interested myths (that I consisted, only for her there are "interested myths". How do the serious, conventional people call, to lie shamelessly to throw the glove to our savings, to the safety of our future?)

And this subtitle catchpenny can be read in the Public progressive newspaper. Excuse the machsimo of the language, but I cannot remedy it: Order eggs!

To see also "Europe in crisis": Euromemorandum 2009/2010

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The Dempeus gent to the presentació of the first llibre

To the Room M.Aurèlia Campmany of Pati Llimona ens varem trobar homes i donate dempeus, insurrectes, defensors i defenders d'una Salut Pública entesa com a ciutadania i dret that volem to preserve, millorar i to be able deixar to them generacions futures com a trendies' conquesta i civilització. It goes to be a trobar moment especialment emotiu - us amb antics amics i amigues, i of that tothom poguès dir algunes paraules in relació amb the llibre (or not) in relació to Dempeus (or not) i ens sentissim a bona estona lliures, in amistat i the millor companyia.

Algunes mostres chart of that us Dec:

Alguns convidats il.lustres: in Fabián Estapé i Loudes Benería. Per ò hi havia també in José Antonio Estevez-Araujo, in J.J. Nuet i in RGAlmazán, l'estimat Kabila, passejant per Barcelona amb the seva família!

Presentació Helen Alvarez per Dempeus per Salut Pública i Celestino Sánchez in nonm of Fundació Pere Ardiaca. L'Elena goes to remember the molt that s'ha fet in an any i that is pot to follow in the Dempeus pad, com hem crescut i hem aconseguir a reconeixement lloc, tant the societat com in the virtual món. Celestino Sánchez goes agrair that the Fundació haguès pogut to edit the llibre amb algunes of them aportacions i activitats of Dempeus in the seu the first life any, per to donate to "esperança d'una salut public millor per to tothom, fonamentació scientist". Per ò som nosaltres els that agraim to the Fundació (i especially to Quim Cornelles) els treballs d'edició of the llibre!

Toni Barbarà, poet of Dempeus per Salut Pública. Here podeu lleguir the seu poem

Montserrat Lamarca ens goes to remember that pensava Ernest Lluch on the salut to the segle XXI.

Mario Bofill is to congratulate dels éxits aconseguits aquest any goes, i ens it goes to remember that és to Madrid on lime to insist pel reconeixement of them malalties ignorades.

Clara Valverde goes to remember the importance of which ens donem suport mútuament, amb menció special per they "fibro-químiques-fatigades".

In Joan Ramon Lladós it goes to donate algunes xifres that demostren com s'ha globalitzat the malaltia i goes to invite to act.

Amigues i amics that omplien the room. Moltes gràcies per to be - hi i the vostre suport!

Carme Borrell ens goes parlar of them privatitzacions conceal, i in concret it goes assenyalat els serveis of neteja, amb clar biaix of gènere.

In Sergi Raventós ens it goes to remember the molta feina to fer per Dempeus in salut mentally.

The Ist in Sergi Estanyol, l'home that tot i assegut, és of them you present yourself més Dempeus that exists conegut mai!

In finishing the presentació, amb they meves amigues (l'Eli és to més, l'estimada anxaneta of the Dempeus colla)!

Esperarem that més pads donin the notícia i els enllaçaré. Of moment, més photograph, to the pad of the nostra Carmina Olivé.

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Presentació llibre Dempeus

Perquè val the sorrow that ens veiem, ens saludem, i sentim that not hi there is distance between nosaltres;

perquè ens adonem that tenim discurs propi, i és nou, i és, in certa restraint, that lime in aquests temps difícils d'increment of the risc i the desigualtat;

perquè uns volen co-pagaments, privatitzacions i enriquir - to coast d'un servei públic, fonamental, necessari...

perquè amb the public salut not s'hi juga;

pèrquè val the sorrow to be still fent crèixer Dempeus per Salut Pública;

perquè volem més igualtat, més democracy, més SALUT:

us vull to remember that avui, 12 of sea ç, us Pati Llimona waited for the presentació of the llibre of Dempeus in, C / Regomir 3, to them 7 of the slow one.

If not podeu to come per ò voleu deixar a salutació, a record or a comentari qualsevol, podeu escriure'l i serà mencionat in the presentació of the llibre. Gràcies, i fins takes it!

Més informació to: Dempeus per the public salut

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The scandal of the squandering in crisis times

It cannot be that there are two so different realities: not even the persons most loving of the literature can justify the existence of these parallel worlds. The mockery of the enormous worn-out numbers (that not invested) in "galactic" players indicates all the wounds of a few immodest accountings in moments of crisis:

This is the story, for major inri read in It Marks: "Florentino Pérez pulled checkbook to prepare most ambitious Real Madrid of the history. A whole for 250 million euros the president spent Real Madrid supporter with the only purpose to come to the final of Champions del Bernabéu. Two minor teams as the Alcorcón, a Second B, and the Lyons, a set without qualifications in Europe, they have made to jump for the airs a galactic project. (...)

Benzema, which cost 36 millions, and Xabi Alonso, by whom 30 kilos were paid, there were the only signings that were not yesterday evening in the Bernabéu for injury and sanction, respectively. Anyway, the two were in Gerland in the going, as what nobody has alibi. They all have been participants of this noisy defeat of Champions. From Cristiano Ronaldo (96 million euros) up to Arbeloa, passing for Kaká (65 millions), Granary and Garay, Real Madrid of 250 million euros crumbled in the second disastrous part."

All this investment could have recovered, they say, with Madrid in the final of the Champions in their own stadium... The story of the dairymaid, in soccer version.

On having thought that the big salaries and transfers of a few galactic soccer players (who crumble in ninety minutes) scarcely pay taxes and therefore they do not even contribute to the common good: had not it been better that the majority of these millions that have just faded away, turned into the due taxation, they had been invested in the health of Madrid, in creating jobs, in refloating companies, in not cornering credits that they need pymes really profitable?

Up to a humiliating defeat of Madrid skylight can make us see that this world belongs to madmen, who are hypnotized by feet idols with mud and are ruled by values of device. That is of guard court to throw the money in a supposed nightmare "investment", when so many people remain without house and without job, and so many companies have to close because banks and boxes do not do his work either... That you present yourself in the control of this society like Florentino Pérez (or Espe-Ancient Aguirre yesterday next to you) there are a public danger... And that or we change the society in whom we live, or his injustice will keep on crying for a tie in a scoreboard that the only thing that it demonstrates is that not even how opium serves.

To see also: The cessarisme nostrat of Jan Laporta
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The electricity companies and the privatizations

In a wonderful corner of the Costa Brava they take three days without light, without phone... There remain affected today more than 20.000 subscribers (what it means many other persons because it is necessary to multiply for those who live in every house). Nevertheless, Endesa, responsible maxim now of this outrage, goes out with semantic affectations and asks the mass media to abstain from using the word paid. According to the company, it is a question of "clients"... And like clients, already it is known, it is possible to treat them anyway. After all, the privatized electricity companies keep on being an oligopoly: and they are in charge! Go if they are in charge! You see how: yesterday they did not attend by phone to one of 20 calls that did not even do the Catalan public television to be able to report to the citizenship. But it is more, presented President Montilla in his facilities (that not the other way round) to find out and to urge them to proceed to the repairs with the maximum urgency, the problem of absence of supply continues without solution.

For the persons biggest stayed at residences and for some clinics some generators have been obtained, but they do not come for all. Yesterday it could be read in LV that Tom Sharpe, with his peculiar sarcastic style, at his 81 years did not remember to have lived "anything similar, not even during the Second World war in England". The English, resident writer was referring in Llafranc, to having to survive without electricity, being peeled of cold and with the fear of catching "a pneumonia" that might be "fatal" in a prosperous Catalunya and in the full XXIst century that neither nobody nor nothing put itself upside down for an exceptional snowfall in places where - not at least the gigantic electrical towers of Endesa - they are prepared to support. All the Sharpe fears - that expressed when scarcely it was taking 24 hours without light of course were shared by hundreds of major persons, of mothers and parents with sick children, and by thousands of citizens who, as the days have already happened - three endless days - have had to do a retrogression to the past, to those times in which the people were living in view of the sails, he was cooking and warmed up with the firelight of the hearth or was freezing the food with ice blocks....

Also yesterday, Jordi Miralles intervened in Parlament de Catalunya on behalf of his group, ICV-EUiA there asked President Montilla to "a major control públic" on the electrical companies... Since sincerely I believe that it remained short. I dress how they behave, verified with so much rigor that they trump reiteramente in the suministo of a public service of the first need, accepted by the Government so versallescamente the tariffs increase with the beneficial aftereffect that it has had in the benefits of the companies and so harmful to the persons of low revenues (that are the immense majority), the best thing would be that we are thinking of nationalizing them again because, unlike what they wanted to do to us creeer: the market does not work! And while they prosper and they do not even cost like businessmen, the people lack a fundamental public service.

If we turn back in two clear errors (and recognized or recognizable): the elimination of the Tax on the Patrimony and the loss of economic control on the electrical companies, equal turns out that ZP can begin behind also in the increase of the VAT, which so much is going to harm the persons of minor resources, and with step we fill the public fund of the richest and of the big companies with benefits...: would not this be a good socialistic program?

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The problem of the private preserves

Following a line opened by Jordi Guillot and that Hugo Martínez Abarca has answered, the first thing that comes to my mind is that it hits the phrase of which the trees do not allow to see the forest. Hugo already indicates some limitations, but I want to insist on the defeat of the lefts at the time of taking the initiative and giving a real and believable alternative to the current economic situation.

I believe that the majority of the problem there are the "preserves" in which the different organizations - and mobilizations - of the left have turned into a cyst, and they have encouraged certain claustrophobia and fugs. And this does not mean that trade union, feminists, ecologists, etc., do not keep on studying in depth the contradictions that express themselves in his concrete field of work or of interest. What lamentation is that environmental, trade union, feminist, etc., they do not share - and in too much occasions they refuse to share - a global, wide, vision rich and full of tones - common - of the system responsible for the inequality, the crisis and the collapse of values of our society. Of doing it, the struggles would come together with more facility and especially, they would be more effective and believable since they would reveal, in all his crudeness, what now goes unnoticed how: that the economic and financial crisis it is also of values and civilization and we are sinking in his muds, almost without realizing. And that the solutions do not consist of only alternatives of production, but especially of redistribution, and of social relations, and of denunciation and overcoming of not democratic powers.

If in fact we face such a global crisis, the alterative one of the lefts it has to be also global, and not a grouper sumatorio of claims or partial solutions... Not even a tactical displacement towards the right or the left (that on the other hand they can be very respectable, and even well-intentioned), not an attempt of coloring differently, making the red one more green, or eliminating violet as soon as it was spent on March 8. The real solutions are global, of a lot of depth and wide bogey: economic, social, ideological, political and of values: and of course we agree much in that by no means it can offer those who led us to this human lack of solidarity disaster.

If it is like that, the responsibility of the lefts is enormous, since the magnitude of the tragedy is such that we might advance towards the solution with immense most of the society. But for it it is necessary to contribute the best thing of everyone (his analysis, his vision, his alternatives) without claiming patents nor to demand private preserves. Because the task of the lefts is to rise of course, to raise the viewfinder and to broaden the horizons. And meanwhile, and at the same time, to share the everyday life of immense most of persons who suffer this system.

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The crisi to Greece i they esquerres europees

European Xarxa de Sindicalistes of Partit de l'Esquerra assembled to Helsinki, is solidaritza amb poble grec i criticism l'atac neoliberal als drets dels treballadors. Els coordinadors, between els hi was the companya Nuria Lozano, they go aprovar a declaració that carries per títol `La crisi i l'atac neoliberal als drets dels treballadors/es to Greece i Europe´ i on is a denunciation “l'experiment grec”, dins of l'actual model of construcció European. Aquest "experiment" this one condemnant els europeus to patir polítiques autoritàries, congelació of them pensions, rebaixes salarials of fins to 30 %, privatitzacions of companyies públiques, asfíxia economic of the petita i mitjana company, an endeutament every vegada major to the l'agricultura sector, augments continus of the desocupació, especialment between them gifts, the joventut i els immigrants. The Ist tot aix ò pels interessos creats, els Tractats of the European Unió, l'anomenat agreed on Europe d'estabilitat, així com per they mesures i polítiques conservatives of Comissió Europea i els governs dels estats membres.

In opinió dels sindicalistes, the economic situació to Greece does not justify the propaganda campanya on the seva situació of frustrated, i the d'altres països that serien els següents. Aquests arguments, which veiem to them portades of molts diaris i d'altres mitjans of comunicació, són conseqüència dels atacs especulatius of the system bancari international, they anomenades institucions d'avaluació, així com of molts líders polytics "europeus" i they polítiques locals d'alguns Governs nacionals.

The current crisi of the capitalisme i els seus principals actors tenen to the sight seu punt, not només an increment dels seus guanys, mitjançant els préstecs to alt interès to Greece, sinó també augmentar the paper that juguen organitzacions internacionals com the IMF, Banc Mundial, Banc Central Europeu, etc … it is not pot to justify that aquestes institucions not estiguin subjectes to a control polític i democràtic, i that obeeixin només to lògiques conservatives i neoliberals, derivades of l'actual model of "construcció" European.

Per the seva band, Partit d'Esquerra European there is publicat també a comunicat in which dóna suport to the working classe i the poble of Greece i altres països of the South d'Europa in the seva lluita per defensar els seus drets econòmics i socials, submesos als atacs dels mercats financers conjunts i to them polítiques neoliberals i autoritàries dels seus governs nacionals i of the EU. In bona logic, the PEE considers that els problemes grec, i espanyol not són problemes nacionals sinó europeus. i they should place portuguese in dubte tota l'estructura of them polítiques neoliberals of the EU. The economic situació of Greece does not justify the propaganda that the country this one to the límit of "frustrated" i that might not sobreviure sense interconquered it day pupil i/o polítiques d'austeritat of the govern.

Give of Partit de l'Esquerra European not s'accepta that l'estabilitat of l'euro exigeix you join mesures d' austeritat so last com they proposades pels governs of the Euro area, European Joined i organitzacions internacionals his com the IMF i Banc Mundial. Totes aquestes polítiques sols benefits els interessos of the capital i augmenten l'atur i they taxes of pobresa to tot Europe, mentre that els bancs privats són rescatats pels governs nacionals i the BCE to cop of milions d'euros públics. Not hi pot haver a strategy per to place fi to the crisi sense l'enfortiment of l' real economy i l'ocupació; not hi there is més justícia in the redistribució dels beneficis sense democratització of the power i the propietat, com to condició per to the fons públics mobilització.

Als governs of Greece i d'altres estats, principalment to the South d'Europa, s'els urges to establir programme d'estabilitat, thing that augmenta l'IVA i els i mpostos, the re-carved one of salaris, the benestar i they pensions, mentre that els bancs i grans empreses mai there is estat so ben tractats. Mentrestant, els marges of benefici dels bancs privats europeus have augmentat considerablement, because of the difference between they taxes d'interès on els préstecs of the BCE (prop d '1 %) i els preus dels bons that they buy els estats (between 6 % i 7 % in the cas of Greece).

Partit de l'Esquerra European is he pronounces against els programme neoliberals d'estabilitat that are subjectant in a xantatge als Estats membres, i demanen a deep revisió seriosa i of the EU i they seves polítiques econòmiques i socials. The lluita per the democracy in l'econòmic, the promoció of the solidaritat i the protecció dels ciutadans has to be a prioritat per to totes they forces polítiques d'esquerra i els actors socials.

In aquest context, proposem quatre demand immediates that have to donate lloc to the nostra strategy commune:

1. Treball Protegir els llocs, els salaris i pensions, com the first totes prioritat they institucions europees.

2. Totes Fiscalitat they transaccions financeres especulatives i the supressió dels paradisos fiscals in the territori europeu.

3. Creació d'una Agència European d'avaluació public: Els Estats does not prune to be ostatges obtain of them of qualificació, that defensen els interessos especulatius.

4. Emissió d'Eurobons. Aix ò permetria als Estats membres prendre prestat to taxes d'interès raonables.

European L'Esquerra expressa the seva solidaritat amb tots els pobles that pateixen they conseqüències of the neoliberal capitalist crisi, i to the greu deteriorament dels drets humans i they condicions of treball, especialment per als joves, gifts i immigrants. The EU hauria of feeling molt més worried pel benestar of them present yourself that viuen to the seu territori that pels bancs i they grans empreses. Donate suport fermament to the initiative of Synaspismos SYRIZA (Greece) per a coordinated lluita of them forces polítiques of l'esquerra radical to the South d'Europa, i the seva col.laboració amb els sindicats i moviments socials, in the context dels principis generals of Partit de l'Esquerra European.

Com the first pas in aquesta articulació, proposen they següents accions:

1. Els partits of l'esquerra radical to Europe i South, PGE, it is decidit conjuntament to intensify the seva coordinació immediatament, davant els efectes of the crisi. Mentrestant, is demana to altres forces polítiques, sindicats, moviments socials i intel.lectuals progressistes d'Europa, to operate conjuntament, perquè the crisi not és a national problem, sinó a problem europeu i world.

2. 24 of sea ç there is estat declarat "Day d'acció Europeu" per Confederació Europea of Sindicats. Els partits of l'esquerra radical to Europe i South, PGE, participarà activament in aquest day d'acció mitjançant l'organització d'accions combine in them ciutats d'Europa i especialment to them capitals of the South.

3. Durant aquesta mobilització, is proposa to adopt the motto comú: "Els pobles europeus does not pay per the crisi. Anem to per l'Europa of the solidaritat!".

Vist to them notícies d' euia, i to Sirius.

Veure també: Jim Hightower: Goldman Sachs and the Greek Tragedy

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