My friends, we face one same neoliberal barbarism. This barbarism is a drain not only on us human beings but on our whole ecosystem and its biodiversity. Today, we have overcome the ruins of state communism and of social democracy, which has been destroyed by its neoliberal ideology. We also face the rise of the far right and of religious and communalist obscurantism across all Europe. The time has come to coordinate our resistance. The time has come to show that we are the global alternative in this century.

The struggle has begun! And we want to win it. We want to gain the trust of our peoples and govern our countries together with them. This is the necessary task today. Our people must enter into a new age of ecological and social reason. Indeed, it’s high time for this. The era of Reagan-Thatcher-Blair — three horrors — led human civilization straight into the planetary crisis that we are now living through. But another future is possible. And our peoples must make it happen. It is our duty, as committed political militants, to devote ourselves to coordinating our efforts. Because without that, internationalism will be an empty word, mere rhetoric.

On the continent we have just formed an alliance of six parties and movements: Podemos in Spain, France Insoumise in France, the Bloco d’Esquerda in Portugal, the Red-Green Alliance in Denmark, the Left Party in Sweden, the Left Alliance in Finland. It is an alliance that you can join as well.