Submission and poverty or struggle and survive

 

DEMONSTRATION AT THESALONIKI, 8th of September 2012

 WORKERS-POOR FARMERS-SELF EPLOYED-YOUNG-WOMEN

WITH THE PAME-PASEVE-PASY-MAS-OGE

WITH ORGANISATION IN THE WORK PLACES-SECTORS-NEIGHBOURHOODS

AGAINST THE NEW ANTILABOUR STORM

TO ABOLISH THE LOAN TREATIES-MEMORANDUMS AND THEIR LAWS

UNILATERAL CANCELATION OF THE DEBT

DISENGAGEMENT FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

WEALTH TO BECOME PUBLIC PROPERTY

THE PEOPLE TO SURVIVE NOT THE PROFITS OF THE MONOPOLIES

WE CAN

NOONE ALONE

ALL TO THE DEMONSTRATION

SATURDAY 8^TH OF SEPTEMBER 2012

ARISTOTELOUS SQUARE at 6.00

CITY OF THESSALONIKI

WHEN FACING UNENDING DESTRUCTION

THERE ARE TWO PATHS

SUBMISSION AND POVERTY

OR

STRUGGLE AND SURVIVAL

IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY

Workers, unemployed, pensioners, poor farmers, self employed, young people

Years of toleration and illusions failed to secure even the basics for you and your family. Your children are in danger.

Fear DID not save you. It made you poor, it leads you to wretchedness.

Those who were saying and believed that sacrifices end, they were proved wrong.

You pay and you will pay a very high price for

The governments that were elected, the loans and the memorandums they signed

The European Union where the profits go to the few and poverty to the many

The debt that you did not create, but came from the unimaginable riches of the capital

The fraud that the wealth that YOU produce must stay in the hands of the bankers, industrialists, ship owners, businessmen in order to have jobs.

Now you have experience.

ANY sign of tolerance and retreat, ANY illusion is a step to wretchedness.

Now you have responsibility

To distinguish friends from enemies or those who pretend to be friends

To take matters in your own hands, to RISE UP

Either with governments of ND-neoliberals, or PASOK-social democrats, or coalition governments of ND and PASOK and DIMAR the “taste” remains the same.

The measures of the anti labour storm are here and will worsen

As long as the main goal of this policy will be to save the profits and the competitiveness of the bankers and the industrialists, the remaining in the European Union, they will always take new anti labour measures, they will always plan new memorandums

The new measures package of 11,5+2,5 billion Euros of the co-government, which was formed after the recent election, is even worse. They, again, attack against:

Salaries and pensions of the private and public sector, social benefits and social protection. Insurance funds, after being robbed for years, now are lead to stoppage of paying pensions and healthcare.

The salaries are cut more than 50% through the abolition of Collective Contracts, and the establishing of individual contracts, part-time and job rotation.

To the thousands lay offs of workers of the private sector they add the lay offs of thousand employees from the public sector, through the “work reserve program”.

They burden with new taxes and fines the popular families, who cannot survive anymore. Daily feeding has become, today, a mass issue.

They dissolve hospitals, cut drugs from patients who cannot afford to pay them. They endanger the life and the health of the people.

They disorganize the schools and the universities; they let tens of thousands of children out of child care centers.

They sell to private interests whatever is left from public property (ports, airports, public areas, the Public Electric Energy Company, Greek Posts, Greek Weapon Industry, Banks, Water Companies etc) by privatizing the Agricultural Bank they give the agricultural land to private interests, throwing out the small farmers with the “assistance” of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy.

Small shops shut down by the thousands because of the competition of the big corporations that raise the prices.

Unemployment strikes every household, especially the young, and exceeds 1,5 million.

AND ALL THESE, when with new tax cuts, benefits, privileges and antilabour laws they enrich the big capitalists.

The governments, the EU, the Troika, the capital know that they cause people’s anger. They try to control it, make it harmless.

They strike where they know they are in danger: against the organized, class struggles of the workers using riot police and the Justice system. They attack against the class oriented forces, PAME.

Oppression goes hand-in-hand with poverty.

The three-party government terrorizes so as to impose the new measures. It promises “lengthening” of the debt, that is lengthening of the memorandums and the measures.

The party of SYRIZA, as opposition, after forgetting the abolition of the memorandums, deceives on the possibility of “renegotiating” them. Is asks for the European funds for the bankers, but without the measures that come with them. This has not happened anywhere in Europe, where the same antilabour measures are imposed. It hides from the people that the complete bankruptcy of the people has been planned by the European Union, so as to support the recovery of capitalism and the capital’s profits over the lasting poverty, unemployment and pauperization of the people.

In spite of their conflicts on TV, ND-PASOK and SYRIZA cooperate with no troubles within the Greek General Confederation of Workers-GSSE, within the Unions, in the sectors. All together the co-sign traitorous Collective Contracts (such as in the sectors of Commerce, Tourism, Food Services, Private Hospitals and dozens factories) with wage cuts of 20%-40%. They say nothing for the lay offs, part-time and job rotation.

Under the argument of “lesser evil” they condemn the workers to deeper poverty. THEY IMPOSE THE MEMORANDUMS WITHIN THE WORKPLACES.

The employers’ trade unionism, of all shades, must be thrown away, from the necks of the workers. Fast and decisively must change the correlation in trade unions, to strengthen the class forces, PAME.

Whoever puts the profits of the businesses and the European Union over the survival of the people, no matter under which colour, he is enemy of the people.

The recent election did not solve the problems of the people, instead they worsen the situation.

When people’s survival is at stake, it is time for clear choices. Either right wing “lengthening” or “left wing renegotiations”, they are both frauds.

Abolish IMMEDIATELY all the loan treaties, the memorandums and the laws that implement them. The trade unions and the workers of all ideologies must support the bill that was proposed by the KKE-Communist Party of Greece, on this issue, because it concerns us all.

Organize NOW -and, first of all, within the work places and the sectors by alive, militant trade unions- the workers’-people’s struggle in order to stop the storm of new measures and to abolish the previous.

Without organization, plan, strength, politicization of the struggle nothing can be won. The struggle against lay offs, wage and pension cuts, taxation, benefits cuts, disintegration of healthcare, education, closing of small shops, the forced displacement of the poor farmers, the forced immigration of the youth, there is only one perspective of hope:

The social alliance of the workers, small farmers, self employed, women and youth that comes into life through the common action of PAME-PASY-PASEVE-OGE-MAS, through popular initiatives, people’s committees that must rise everywhere.

Under one common goal:

Abolition of the memorandums and the loan treaties

Unilateral cancelation of the debt

Disengagement from the EU. Radical overthrows and changes that will lead to workers’ - people’s power, with the people owner of the wealth he produces, for the planned utilisation of all the growth abilities of the country.

Under the knowledge that capitalism has rotten and can only give birth to unemployment, poverty, misery. For an economy for the people. In a society with the power in the hands of the people.