[Marxism] General strike called in Greece against the deal
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * There are also calls on facebook for demos everywhere Wednesday at 7:30 but I don't know yet whether that will pick up steam (hope so!) from Facebook: Kevin Ovenden https://www.facebook.com/kevin.ovenden/posts/10155744653615468?fref=nf General strike called in Greece against the deal (Please share) The public sector trade union federation in Greece, ADEDY, has called a general strike for Wednesday. The strike against the Third Memorandum will be officially announced tomorrow. But activists throughout the public sector unions have begun organising for the stoppage this aft ernoon. The parliament has to agree the new memorandum by midnight on Wednesday. If MPs are to vote tomorrow, then the strike will be brought forward to tomorrow. Angela Merkel *increased* the pressure on the Greek government even after it capitulated. She said that monitoring of moves to implement the memorandum would be strict and begin immediately. She is not certain that this government can pass the memorandum - still less implement it. The fight is on. It is not off. The Greek government may have capitulated rather than rupture with the mafia eurozone. Now an attempt to impose an austerity *July coup against the Greek popular masses risks a different rupture. Between working class Greece and the powers which should not be. The Brussels talks settled nothing. Because the power that delivered the Oxi revolt was not at them. That is the Greek working class with the fighting forces of the radical left at its heart. Solidarity with resisting Greece. *The last such attempted parliamentary coup against the popular will (as opposed to coup d'etat) of this magnitude was 50 years ago this week - July 1965. It marked the beginning of the end of the post-civil war order in Greece. It finally ended with the overthrow of dictatorship in 1974. It is from that date that the rise of the modern radical left in Greece, as an open force, begins. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] General strike called in Greece against the deal
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 7/13/15 9:55 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote: The public sector trade union federation in Greece, ADEDY, has called a general strike for Wednesday. General strikes were a frequent occurrence in Greece. They had zero effect. On the other hand, a general strike in Germany would make a huge difference. I have also seen calls on Facebook for assemblies in Syntagma Square as if a rehash of the occupy movement could put a dent in the German ruling class. In Latin America up until the development of the Bolivarian revolution, imperialism had its way. Nicaragua was crushed and so was El Salvador and Guatemala. In fact Latin America, which was in the same kind of relationship to the USA that Greece is to Germany, suffered countless defeats for a hundred years. Just read John Gerassi's The Great Fear in Latin America. The only thing that will work in Europe is a continent wide anti-austerity movement that will be bolstered by mass movements that can put the ruling classes on the defensive, as well as a string of governments that can be partners of the mass movement. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] General strike called in Greece against the deal
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * ... and Wednesday's general strike is a means to getting to that point (i.e. Louis's last paragraph). Another comrade offlist drew the same false equivalence between the dozens of prior strikes and the upcoming one. The Greek masses turned to Syriza after the strikes proved insufficient. Now they're re-mobilizing after seeing the inadequacy of the Syriza leadership. They're not returning to square one, but launching strike action on the basis of more experience in both economic and political spheres. So the strike will be a huge boost to those who want a Europe-wide antiausterity movement (actually there already is one, which is why Merkel insisted on crushing Syriza). And the Greek masses go into the strike knowing they need a new and improved political expression of their militancy. On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: On 7/13/15 9:55 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote: The public sector trade union federation in Greece, ADEDY, has called a general strike for Wednesday. General strikes were a frequent occurrence in Greece. They had zero effect. On the other hand, a general strike in Germany would make a huge difference. I have also seen calls on Facebook for assemblies in Syntagma Square as if a rehash of the occupy movement could put a dent in the German ruling class. In Latin America up until the development of the Bolivarian revolution, imperialism had its way. Nicaragua was crushed and so was El Salvador and Guatemala. In fact Latin America, which was in the same kind of relationship to the USA that Greece is to Germany, suffered countless defeats for a hundred years. Just read John Gerassi's The Great Fear in Latin America. The only thing that will work in Europe is a continent wide anti-austerity movement that will be bolstered by mass movements that can put the ruling classes on the defensive, as well as a string of governments that can be partners of the mass movement. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
