"Europrecariat" and Middlesex-Declaration

During the European Social Forum in London in October 2004 many initiatives from all over Europe met in the autonomous spaces of Middlesex-University to discuss the broadening of the Euromayday-process. The declaration of Middlesex was published a few weeks later, combined with an invitation to the "european precariat" for a follow-up coordination meeting in Berlin. Find both in the following bloc.
The european precariat rises up!
Invitation to the meeting of the european precariat in Berlin 14.-16.1. 2005
As a consequence of the declaration of Middlesex (see below) we want to continue the process of networking and exchanging ideas about the precarious people in an international context. Precarity becomes a broadly discussed issue in the european left. It has initiated new ways of acting against everday capitalism. For example actions of appropriation and the growing Euromayday-Movement. In accordance to arrangements with different groups in London (ESF), we want to invite you to the meeting of the european precariat in Berlin. We want to create an open space for european activist to find out, what possibilities in political action the term precarity as a common allows us.Together with you, we want to exchange our ideas and experiences to search for new perspectives of political actions in europe. (...)
ALB (antifaschistische Linke Berlin)
Attac AG Prekarisierung
FelS (Für eine linke Strömung)
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MIDDLESEX DECLARATION OF EUROPE'S PRECARIAT (version 3.0)
We networkers and flextimers of Northern and Southern Europe, autonomously gathered at Middlesex University and determined to go beyond crippling ESF, solemnly join minds and bodies in the present declaration of conflict against Europe's governments and corporate bureaucracies. We denounce police harassment and persecution of activists in London. We express our unwavering determination to fight against enforced precarity and for the right to a secure and decent living all over Europe. We will act to assert the rights of all humans within Europe regardless of where they were born or how long they have been here. We demand freedom of migration into and within the EU. On April 2nd, a common day of action will see all of us joining migrants' struggles for free movement across borders, with mobilizations in more than 40 european cities. We will employ all methods of direct action and subvertising at our disposal to support strikes, pickets, stoppages, boycotts, blockades, sabotages, protests all over Europe. We agree to shape a transeuropean network of movements and collectives determined to agitate against freemarketeers for social rights valid for all human beings living in Europe. We have decided to prepare for a common EURO MAYDAY 2005, to be held on May 1st in all of Europe's major cities, calling for angry temps, disgruntled parttimers, frustrated unemployed, raging immigrants and labor activists to mobilize against precarity and inequality, in order to reclaim flexibility from managers and executives: we demand flexicurity against flexploitation. We will gather in Berlin in midJanuary 2005 to decide a common protest action against the sanctuaries of EU power, in order to launch euromaydays and the supporting structured network of labor radicalism and media activism tentatively called NEU, Networkers of Europe United. We call onto all our European sisters and brothers, be they autonomous marxists, postindustrial anarchists, syndicalists, feminists, antifas, queers, anarchogreens, hacktivists, cognitive workers, casualized laborers, outsourced and/or subcontracted employees and the like, to network and organize for a common social and political action in Europe. We are eurogeneration insurgent: our idea of Europe is a radical, libertarian, transnationalist, antidystopian, open democratic space able to counter global bushism and oppressive, exploitative, owermad, planetwrecking, warmongering neoliberalism in Europe and elsewhere. Networkers and Flextimers of Europe Unite: There's a World of Real Freedom to Fight for!