PART B
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B. The Relations of Greece and EU: Continuous deterioration to the detriment of
our country
When the Treaty-Agreement for the attachment of Greece to EEC had begun being
implemented in 1962, professor Nikos Kitsikis (EDA-United Democratic Left)
wrote: “today there might be not so many people knowing that the tempest of the
Common Market will eradicate peasant households, sweep and disappear
industries, crush small manufactures, afflict the middle layers in a deadly
way, create an exhausting competition between Greek professionals and the
foreign ones to which we are opening widely the gates, enslave our country
under foreign capital with uncountable consequences, increase our trade
balance’s huge deficit even more, render immigration an unstoppable bleeding
for our work force and a flee in panic from our country, which will get poorer
day by day, because it will produce less, since it will not be able to sustain
agricultural and industrial antagonism, but will drown in foreign products.”
It is well-known that not only communists and people on the Left – who, for
their larger part, were rallying around and expressing themselves politically
through the lines of EDA – but also people from other political wings opposed
the country’s attachment to the EEC, and this was because of the negative
consequences on its financial-political course, as well as opposed its
entrance
to the EEC (later EU), which took form with the signature of the relevant
agreement (28 May 1979) by Karamanlis Sr’s government (the country started
participation in the EEC’s decisions from January 1981).
Today, 48 years after the attachment Agreement and 31 years after the
agreement of Greece’s entrance to the EEC, the working class and the entire
Greek people live the negative consequences of the aforementioned scientific
predictions of Nikos Kitsikis as well as others.
It is obligatory to realize and be reminded that the decisions – damaging
decisions for the class interests of the proletariat and peasantry as well as
of the nation – for Greece’s attachment-entrance to the EU were absolutely the
strategic choice of big local capital, the country’s dominant reactionary
bourgeoisie.
From that time until a few years ago, the bourgeoisie’s political
representatives cultivated a series of myths, such as 1) “equal participation
in the EU,” 2) “permanent development,” 3) convergence of EU’s member-states’
economies,” 4) “permanent prosperity” – myths that have now fallen to pieces –
while the ultra-reactionary “ethnarch” Karamanlis had the fathomless audacity
to speak even about “the fortification of the country’s national sovereignty”
during the entrance agreement signature ceremony.
In contrast to the local reactionary bourgeoisie and its representatives’
fictions, with the attachment of Greece to the EEC and above all its permanent
entrance to it and then to EU-EMU, very significant changes determining
decisively the country’s thereafter course until today took place and shaped a
new situation:
1. The country’s imperialist dependence by EU monopolies is expanded,
reinforced and strengthens, and gains an absolute, full and suffocating
character,
2. The exploitation of wealth by foreign monopolies reaches
uncontrollable
dimensions,
3. Financial policies, and not only these, are determined exclusively
by EU
monopolies and serve their own interests, and are decided by Brussels and the
imperialist Organizations Commission and ECB,
4. The economy of Greece has become in these recent years a supplement
of the
economy of the powerful imperialist countries of EU, mainly Germany and
France,
and the country has turned into an area of investing their capitals and a
market for selling their products,
5. The difficulties and negative consequences for industry and
agriculture are
multiplying
6. A strong constraint of national sovereignty is taking place
In the 48-year period between the agreement for Greece’s attachment to EEC
and
today, the gap between imperialist EU and the Greece has been constantly
deepening and expanding – instead of shrinking – and reached a tremendous
degree at all levels – because of the action of the law of uneven economic
development within the EU domain – while lately, besides the falling apart of
the aforementioned myths, the myths of “protecting-securing the country from
bankruptcy” and “decreasing the borrowing interest rate,” since the bankruptcy
of Greek economy is now a concrete fact, and the interest rate, after the
recourse of Papandreou’s government to the notorious “support mechanism” of
EU-IMF is now at the usurious level of 5%. In the final analysis, the country
resulted not only to the recent triple occupation of Commission-ECB-IMF, but
also the placement of their representatives at Athens, thus erasing every
trace
of national sovereignty, since these – as representatives of European and
national capital – are deciding for everything, including our country’s
fortunes, simply giving orders to a puppet-government which deliberately
brings
forward the measures not only at the expense of the working class and the
people, but also of the country.
After the country’s definitive entrance to the EEC, revolutionary communists
and anti-imperialist – as well as other forces (“K”KE, Maoist revisionists,
Trotskyists, more recently NAR, etc.) for demagogical reasons, as it has
become
evident by their attitude today – have correctly upheld not only their
position
for Greece leaving-exiting imperialist EU – which is expressed in the
anti-imperialist slogan “Greece out of the EU” – but waged a struggle and
promoted with every opportunity the necessity of the country’s exit from the
“lions’ den” of big European monopolies.
Today, after the breakdown of the last great myth of an EU “saving” Greece
through the “support mechanism (i.e. enslavement mechanism) and the
“life-saving” usurious interest rate of 5%, the dramatic, absolutely negative
and adverse developments to our country’s disadvantage – the result of the
ever-more suffocating dependency by powerful EU monopolies becoming
choking-strangulating by the new occupation of Commission-ECB-IMF – are
bringing
again, with a particular sharpness, to the centre of the political moment the
anti-imperialist slogan-position of Communists and anti-imperialists “Greece
out
of the EU,” placing at the same moment to the agenda as immediate goals of the
struggle of the working class and the people: Greece’s WITHDRAWAL of the
EUROPEAN UNION, along with the exit from EMU-EURO, the refusal of recognizing
the country’s debt and the unilateral entire debt suspension of payments. This
is the proposal for struggle by the Movement for the Reconstruction of KKE
1918-55 in this crucial historic period, a period when there is neither a
revolutionary condition nor a Leninist-Stalinist type revolutionary party. It
is
a political goal-proposal in complete opposition and in direct rupture with the
big local capital’s current strategic choice of Greece STAYING in EMU-EURO-EU.
The Political Committee of the "Movement for the Reorganisation of the
Communist Party of Greece 1918-55"
PO Box 3689, 102 10 Athens
Greece
Tel: +30 2108621543
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