---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marx Laboratory <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:03 PM Subject: Greece 3: The strengthening of the KKE will determine the people’s position the day after the elections To: Marx Laboratory <[email protected]>
The strengthening of the KKE will determine the people’s position the day after the elections *The GS of the CC of the KKE, Aleka Papariga, presented the KKE’s positions before the elections on the 17th of June at a press conference on Tuesday 5/6. We quote sections from the introductory speech:* The “euro or drachma” dilemma posed by ND or the dilemma posed by SYRIZA “memorandum or SYRIZA” are both false and misleading. They do not answer the real dangers which the people of Greece and the peoples of Europe are facing due to the sharpening of the capitalist crisis in the Eurozone. The real dilemma is: • Counterattack of the people’s movement or the destitution of the popular strata? Whatever government, which will be formed after the elections, will escalate the onslaught against the income and rights of the majority of sal aried workers and the self-employed, using some crumbs given to extremely poor social groups as an alibi, and these crumbs will vanish due to the more general consequences of the anti-people political line. Pre-conditions for the counterattack the day after the elections are: • The organization of the workers in the workplaces • The promotion of the people’s alliance between the working class, the poor self-employed and the poor farmers. • The preparation of the people to deal with all the possible outcomes, including first of all the possibility of an uncontrolled bankruptcy, to practically deal with the mass impoverishment and destitution. • The drastic change of the correlation of force in the trade union movement. In a period when the future of today’s Eurozone is uncertain, regardless of the sacrifices of the Greek people, the next government will face two possibilities: a) The renegotiation of the loan agreement within the Eurozone, with the creditors, which will lead to a new “haircut” and also a new harsh memorandum. b) The impetus for a departure from the Eurozone with the possibility of an uncontrolled state bankruptcy. SYRIZA has been recently invoking the policy of the US President Obama. A quick glance at the explosion of unemployment and poverty in the USA, which has provoked unfocused popular protests, is enough for anyone to draw conclusions. But the promotion of its “anti-German” rhetoric by the large USmedia outlets is extremely noteworthy, something that is accompanied by a lack of categorical commitments in the governmental programme of SYRIZA that the base at Suda will not be used against Syria and Iran. A programme that also does not pose clear governmental goals for the cancellation of the strategic agreement with Israel and the departure from NATO. After the elections the KKE will confront the rationale of ND and SYRIZA by putting forward and specializing its line of struggle which includes radical goals such as : Termination of the loan agreement and the memorandum, full and stable employment, exclusively public and free Healthcare, Education, Welfare, exclusively public social security system for all, 45% tax rate for distributed and undistributed profits […] The victory of the people, the people’s sovereignty requires the people to possess the wealth they produce, to take the power into their hands. This means the that the immense wealth which is produced in this country and which today is transformed into profits in the stock markets, into bank deposits in Switzerland, investments in the Balkans and in London, into the construction of new ships in China will be utilized for the satisfaction of the people’s needs. It means a power and a government that will not be bound by the treaties and the plans of all the international imperialist interstate alliances and international conventions, the EU, the military formations, NATO. The KKE will play a decisive and leading role in the government of this people’s power. The GS of the CC of the KKE made a detailed presentation of the platform for the organization of the people’s counterattack which includes goals of struggle regarding income, taxation, protection of the unemployed, social security system, pensions, healthcare, education etc. -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.in http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
