Comrades and Friends,

The Left is here.

United and promising as never before in Slovenia.

We march ahead.

This alliance for hope.

This alliance for the people.

Proves that the Left exists,

To unite – not to divide – people.

And it cannot unite people if it does not unite itself.

We did that in Greece – with SYRIZA.

And our experience shows that when the Left unites,

It does not simply add forces.

It multiplies forces and political impact.

That will also happen in Slovenia.

Because your efforts springs not from party mechanisms, alien to the people.

But from the most energetic sectors of Slovenian society.

It is rooted not in dark offices.

But in the open sea of popular mobilization.

It is the political child of the Slovenian “winter of discontent” – same time last year.

It is society in motion.

This is your response to the neoliberal zombies, who breed corruption, austerity, unemployment and poverty.

This is the response of the social Left to the old political establishment which is withering away.

In Slovenia, in Greece, in Europe.

Next May, in less than ninety days.

It will be in our own hands to throw them into history's wastepaper basket.

Dear Comrades,

Next May, each and every citizen.

In each and every corner of this Continent.

Holds our common future into her hands.

If they vote Left.

Europe will turn Left.

And then the Eurozone crisis could be resolved collectively, fairly and credibly.

And we could pave the way for Europe’s balanced and viable growth.

We could set the basis for the Europe of employment and justice.

We will reject the failed neoliberal recipe for the crisis.

Because the Eurozone crisis is a crisis of the neoliberal paradigm.

It appears with different, but similar faces.

As debt crisis in Greece, and as banking crisis in Slovenia.

A month ago, Olli Rehn made it clear that, at the beginning of the Greek solvency crisis, back in 2010, Europe sacrificed Greece to save German, French and other major European banks.

That the political establishment of Europe did not want to have Greece’s public debt restructured at that time

Because, then, the European banks would need to pay for their excessive risk-taking with Greek bonds.

They chose to cause an unprecedented, in peacetime, humanitarian crisis in Greece, just to save casino capitalism in Europe.

And, in that way, they forced taxpayers in the South to pay for bank profits in the North.

What is happening four years later?

Now, they reject direct European Stability Mechanism (ESM) recapitalization of banks.

They prefer to lend governments to rescue bankrupted banks at home – at least for the moment.

And, in that way, they force taxpayers in the South to finance bank profits in the South

So, one way or another, they force the South to pay for the banking system of the entire Europe.