AKEL MEP N.Sylikiotis intervention at GUE/NGL meeting in Vienna

23 November 2018

“The GUE/NGL must send out the message that the unity of the radical Left in the European Parliament can be strengthened and become the force for change in the people’s interests. The radical Left is the only alternative to the neo-liberal austerity policies that are being imposed by the EU and the global economic elites, and through its actions it must contribute towards the unity of the mass workers, left and communist movement based on the struggles of the peoples.”

This is what AKEL MEP and Vice-President of GUE/NGL Neoklis Sylikiotis underlined during the GUE/NGL Group meeting in Vienna. The Bureau meeting was attended, apart from its members, also by representatives of parties, trade union, movements and organizations from Austria. N. Sylikiotis chaired a panel discussion on the theme of “The European elections and the challenges for the Left”.

“In an EU in which the democratic deficit is growing, in an EU that is neo-liberal and increasingly being militarized, in an EU where the rights of women and socially vulnerable groups are under brutal attacks, the United Left in Europe now represents the only pole that genuinely expresses the working people and popular strata, and the only force that can constitute a bastion of resistance against the growth of the ultra-right to change the situation. In any case, the Left must maintain a clear anti-systemic and radical character as the force of the working people, solidarity, social justice, peace, ecology and feminism, expressing the interests of the working people and the popular strata,” said N. Sylikiotis.