Two details about Syriza's July agreement with the Eurocrats and a general issue:
According to this article, Syriza's " propaganda that it is increasing taxes on the big businesses and ship-owners is unfounded. It is a drop in the ocean. The tax exemptions for the ship-owners and big capital as a whole are being kept in place." Also, "Maintenance of the anti-social-security measures in their entirety which reduce pensions, increase the retirement age, exempt employers from social-security contributions and also the introduction of new measures that abolish the remaining early retirements establishing a single retirement age of 67, abolish the benefits for pensioners with very low pensions, increase the workers' social-security contributions." Raise employee payments into social security but exempt employers! The general issue goes back to Second International, when the reformist wing appeared and fought to break the rule that socialist parties do not take positions in the executive branch of government, which obliges them to administer capitalist policy. The rule was that socialist parties strive for legislative positions so they can reach people through another means, so they can vote in favor of social welfare measures and against oppressive legislation. The CP of Greece now sums up the experience of Syriza in executive power: "The experience of the 5 months of SYRIZA's governance demonstrates that it did not want to nor was it able to prepare the people for a confrontation against the memoranda and the monopolies, both Greek and European, precisely because it had no orientation for resistance and conflict. On the contrary, it deceived the people that it could pave the way for pro-people changes inside the predatory alliance of the EU." Excerpts from http://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/ON-THE-SITUATION-IN-GREECE-AND-THE-ANTI-PEOPLE-ROLE-OF-SYRIZA/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
