It was 21 of April 2010 when the Greek government has proposed the introduction of the International Monetary Fund as the only solution for the country to get out of the crisis. 21 of April of 1967, was also the day of the right wing military junta which lasted for seven years. Is there any coincidence? One week ago, several arrests took place. Members of the anarchist armed group “Revolutionary struggle” have been arrested accused of terrorism. Well, as I have said in a previous article, terrorism is nothing more but a con, especially in Greece where police brutality, violence and racism is a routine.
The government has announced several cuts in workers wages but not to the big businesses and banks. Those who are responsible for this damage (bankers, local pop stars and other multimillionaires) still have not been brought to justice, perhaps they will never pay for what they did. Nevertheless, the ordinary people (workers, immigrants, artists, teachers) these days show a clear message in what type of society they want to live trying to stop the invasion of the IMF and the European Union occupation. Indeed, most of the Greek people feel very angry towards the EU and capitalist right wing elites who want to change the society to a poor, badly paid cattle. Together solidarity actions and similar anti-capitalist demonstrations occur in many other European countries. There was a solidarity protest in Paris (France), in Barcelona (Spain), in Argentina, in Mexico and Turkey.
Why ordinary people should have to pay the price for what a bunch of corrupted bureaucrats have done? It is outrageous the way the western capitalist media outline the situation by presenting the population of entire country responsible for the crisis.
“Working people in Greece are showing the way forward to people here and across Europe. Another system is possible. International capital has targeted Greece as its next victim. Hedge funds have pushed the interest on Greek government bonds to close to 14 per cent. Just as bankers Goldman Sachs made billions betting on a default in the sub-prime housing market in the U$A so now these same predators circle Greece expecting to make similar obscene sums off the backs of the people of that country. Since the beginning of the international economic crisis the very rich have manoevered to make themselves even more wealthy.
However the people of Greece have decided to fight these cuts. Fresh strikes and demonstrations started on Monday with a 24-hour walk-out by Greece?s federation of shipping unions (PNO) that disrupted ferry services to more than 50 Aegean islands. Public transport in Athens will shut down for six hours on Tuesday when workers stage a protest against pay cuts. The Greek working class is showing us the way forward. Send support to the Greek workers fighting IMF cuts”
International capital has targeted Greece as its next victim. Hedge funds have pushed the interest on Greek government bonds to close to 14 per cent. Just as bankers Goldman Sachs made billions betting on a default in the sub-prime housing market in the U$A so now these same predators circle Greece expecting to make similar obscene sums off the backs of the people of that country. Since the beginning of the international economic crisis the very rich have manoevered to make themselves even more wealthy”. (Solidarity page)
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19/08/2010 @ 10:27
Anarchists demonstrators in Barcelona.
26/07/2010 @ 21:31
@Julia –
Julia there is also another simple thing the Greek government should know… it is not necessary to remain in the European Union. Just a few decades ago, if you would ask the Greek people their thoughts about the EU, most of them would respond “EU and NATO should let us get along with our lives“. As I remember myself when I was kid, most of the people were in favour of sovereignty rather than being dictated by another powerful centre.
I do not say we are not responsible at all. Most of us could see some signs that the economy will confront serious problems someday but when the first serious scandals appeared instead of getting rid of these con-artists-politicians we supported them in the elections. Unfortunately in Greece a style of “customer relationships” between MPs and citizens keeps well. You see, it looks like all were driven by self-interest but why? Sureness and self-interest prevailed under the “capitalistic paradise” lies they “sold us”. They tried to convince us that “we are Westerners and we had to imitate the other Western countries who were “light years ahead us”". Our radical Euroscepticism gave its place to a desperate unacceptable Euro-lust. “We were alone” people were saying, “we had to trust our Eurofriends“, we had to believe that all the Western societies are impeccable. When I was young again our parents used to tell me “people in Europe are able to buy whatever they want. They are rich, and Greece is a poor country”. Now, when my mind goes back to these days… I am thinking… we were really happier people then. We had almost everything to live happily with each other. We were able to contribute to an even better society by building up better motorways, improve our education… away from this comfortability and materialism that has taken us over.
Where are our Euro-friends nowdays? Where is their “helping hand”? Even more, where was Europe’s helping hand at the national disaster of 1922? What we see today is that the media abroad (especially from the right side) consider us fully responsible for the crisis. It is nothing more but a directed propaganda from Brussels designed to justify the neo-liberal plans to turn the country into a testing zone.
20/07/2010 @ 10:54
Carl, the Greek government had two options: tax the rich or cut from the workers. They chose to cut from the workers. Why? Because the wealthy elite control the State in every country that’s why. Workers working harder isn’t the complete answer. Greece (and every country) needs full systematic reform. Workers need to take over their industries and give their capitalist bosses the boot (in the long term anyway). In the short term they need to DEMAND that the government tax the rich and make them give back to the working people.
03/06/2010 @ 09:45
@Carl
It is “morality” and conservatism that keeps the country backwards together with the mafia-politicians who most of them do exactly what the US government asks and the EU. Did you know that Greece is the third biggest gun buyer in the world? And here we come, this is the biggest waste of money, because we don’t need guns, we need to spend for education, for health, for something creative. Me thinks that it is you, the biggest percentage of Americans (given the fact your IP comes from there), who are really lazy and do exactly what the media say. Do you think your conformity and conservatism will get you anywhere? Also, do you really think that we, the Greek people, need your opinion?
“All the protest and hatred of hard working rich people“… so please make up your mind, are we hard working people or not? As far the “rich protesters”…is this what you have to say for the people who live with 500 euro a month (Greece has the lowest salaries in the whole EU behind Spain and Portugal)? Is this what you have to say for those have university degrees and are forced to work in McDonalds or anywhere for cheap and sometimes under the table in medieval working conditions? Is this what you have to say for those who are abused by the police force without reason? Have you ever lived and worked in Greece, doubtful! I don’t blame you, this is what they have told you, this is what you know but it will be too late when you will wake up.
Back to the the “morality” thing again: Greece is the safest country of Europe if not the whole world. (See homicide rates by country, even from Wikipedia). U$A and most of the Western countries are much more “immoral”. Why? Faulty education, learning to obey rules blindly without developing critical thought. Ever heard about Vietnam, about Iraq, North Korea, Cuba, Chile, Bolivia, Afghanistan, the Balkan crisis? It is your leaders who divide countries without shame, entering home of innocent people murdering children and families, destroying homes and burning asylums not we. It is your country that has forced millions of people in the whole planet to poverty and starvation and emigration and not we. So calling others “immoral”, “lazy” etc (as an American) it is the biggest irony ever seen. I think this is understandable. How many American activists were on the Gaza convoy, together with the Turkish who murdered by the Zionist army? That simply confirms something, you have no balls man!
People of Greece are talking to Police -English subtitles:
03/06/2010 @ 03:20
If the people of Greece, as a whole, don’t work harder, much harder than they have been working for the last 15 years, they will become the slaves of the capitalist. If they don’t become more moral, much more moral than they have been for the last 15 years, they will become the slaves of the capitalist. Laziness, immorality, wastefulness and overspending has gotten Greece where it is today. All the protest and hatred of hard working rich people will not change their situation. Only hard work and morality will lead Greece to freedom.
20/05/2010 @ 16:40
@Jacques Martin
I absolutely agree with what you say. We must be united now and smash the media propaganda which wants us a consuming mass slaves of a capitalist oligarchy. I am also getting sick of all these leaders and the “law and order” supporters telling us what to do, what to say, what to wear.
17/05/2010 @ 23:20
As said in your whole info blog, which new face is great, Greece is not isolated case of social injustice and human fall. We are all concerned, northern as southern, eastern as western. It’s a global disease of humanity that’s driving us to disaster. No country will be excepted. No people. Just a class will not pay for her own fault. THE CAPITALIST… as far as money’ll go on ruling our life we’ll be the slaves majority of a rich minority, just coz we play their games,the capitalistic wheel of fortune…
We people of underclasses have to unite worldwide and stop together this golden comedia of our own shit life and inhuman death. WE RE ALL GREEKS!
World belongs to humans and animals ,trough nature, not to money and machines,trough torture!