Find the mobilisation video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBGMKqby510
Organisation: Joint Social Conference (JSC) with support of Coalition of Resistance (CoR) – UK, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and TNI (TransNational Institute)
General coordination: JSC Initiative Committee
On behalf of JSC I.C. : Felipe Van Keirsbilck – CSC Belgium ; Franco Carminati – Attac ; Walter Baier – Transform!; Hilary Wainwright – T.N.I.
Programme
The program is in three parts:
1. How european democracies fell in the trap
2. Situation of the people and of the struggles
3. Alternatives : is there a way out of the trap ?
Languages : English and French
TIMETABLE
10.00: Welcome – inscriptions
10.15-10.30: Introduction
- welcome by a british TU leader and someone from New Economics 10′
- presenting JSC and the global program 5′
10.30-12.15: Part I – coordination & chair: Transform! (Walter Baier / Elisabeth Gauthier)
Causes of the debt crisis in Europe: How European democracies fell in the trap
- General causes of the public imbalances in Europe (Michael Jäger – Fachhochschule BFI WIEN) 30’
- Role of Germany in the European imbalances (Steffen Lehndorff – University of Duisburg-Essen) 20’
- Debts, austerity and nationalism (Walter Baier) 10’
- Discussion 40’
- conclusions 5′
12.15 – 13.15: Lunch
13.15 – 15.00: Part II – coordination: a (British ?) trade union leader
Situation of the struggles & peoples in Europe
- People’s movements in front of ECB & IMF (Costas Lapavitsas – New Economics) 20’
- Greece (Elena Papadopoulo -Nicos Poulantzas Institute) 15’
- countries at the limit of the trap (Ireland-Andy Muray, Portugal-Cavalho-CGTP, Spain- Attac.Spain and ELA, Hungary : Karoly Gyorgy MSZ OSZ, Italy – L. Tartaglia CGIL)
- Discussion 35’
- Conclusions 5′
15.00 – 15.30: Break
15.30 – 17.30: Part III – coordination: JSC – attac (Franco Carminati)
Alternatives : is there a (democratic) way out ? The ECB – eurozone – IMF “solution” : saving Greece …or the banks ?
- The Trade Unions analysis of the “saving plans” (Ronald Janssen, ETUC/ETUI) 20’
- Just taxation as way out of the crisis 25′
- Taxation and deficits – tax heavens (PCS / TJN) 15’
- Taxation on corporations and property in Europe (JSC/Franco Carminati) 10’
- Debt auditing 20’
- Auditing debt in Greece & in other countries ? (20′ ; Myriam Bourgy – CADTM)
- Cooperation or competition in EU : is the debt a national issue, or a social one ? Michel Husson Conseil Scientifique Attac – 20’
- Discussion (30’)
- Conclusions: (Franco Carminati) 5′
17.30-17.45: Conclusions and follow-up JSC & CoR