I thank you, comrades of the Newspaper Anasintaxi, for your excellent communist exposition on the class struggle in Greece. I enjoyed reading it dutifully. Thank you for standing in the lead and never abandoning the aspirations of the working class.
yours, f580 --- On Wed, 1/12/11, Newspaper Anasintaxi <anasint...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Newspaper Anasintaxi <anasint...@yahoo.com> Subject: [MLL] Unilateral entire debt suspension of payments – Greece out of Euro-EMU-European Union part C To: marxist-leninist-list@lists.econ.utah.edu Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 6:28 PM PART C ------------- C. Greece out of EMU-EURO-EUROPEAN UNION The foreign and local capitals’ continuous attacks as they are included, among others, in the enslaving “Memorandum,” and promoted by the troika and the government, as well as the very serious consequences in the country’s course springing from its further stay within EMU-EURO-EU are determining the direction and content for the front of struggle of the working class and other working masses and oblige them to struggle on the one hand for the defense of their class interests and the regain of their demolished gains and on the other hand against the new occupation of Commission-ECB-IMF and not only for the country’s exit from EMU-EURO (through the refusal to recognize and pay the debt), but also the direct, here and now, WITHDRAWAL from the imperialist European Union, a proposal which is expressed at a short length in the apropos slogan Unilateral entire debt suspension of payments – Greece out of Euro-EMU-European Union, against, as already stated, the big local capital’s strategic choice of KEEPING Greece in EMU-EURO, but first of all staying within imperialist European Union. If in the early 60’s the big capital’s strategic choice was the country’s entrance to the EEC, its current strategic choice now is the permanent and further STAYING in the “lions’ den” of big and powerful imperialist EU monopolies, the consequences of which have been paid for years by the Greek people and country. 1. The struggle for defending the working class’s interests and the regain of demolished conquests. The working class’s first goal in this very difficult period is the defense of its class interests at all levels, the rescue of those few remaining gains-rights from the onslaught of the “Memorandum” and the regain of demolished conquests. The working class and the entirety of working people did not succeed in holding off the foreign and local capital’s attacks, as these were promoted by the troika and the government and were expressed in the notorious “Momeorandum,” this bring due, as already mentioned, to the reformist worker patrons of GSEE-ADEDY-PASKE-PAME-AP’s traitorous line of class collaboration, the lack of massive in the not promptly declared strike mobilizations, and finally the PAME’S reformist disruptive tactic which permanently undermined the unity and massiveness of mobilizations. The anti-popular and anti-worker measures are supported directly and indirectly by the government of PASOK, the Nazi-fascist LAOS, and the monarch-fascist ND, while the latter one demagoguely protests “against” the “Memorandum.” The Khruschevite social democratic parties “K”KE and SYN, as well as the organizations of the extraparliamentary Left stood and stand against the troika-government’s measures and support, with their well-known delinquency, the workers’ demands, although they permanently undermine their struggle with their separate and splitting strike mobilizations, which result in the frustration of the required massiveness and insufficiency. Through observing the positions of the social democratic “K”KE-SYN, as well as all opportunist extraparliamentary organizations, it is easily seen that they are all limiting the working class’s struggle in the projection and claim of strictly trade-unionist demands. The social democratic leaders of Khrushevite “K”KE, in particular, are going even further, and become self-ridiculed, claiming that the trade-union demands of 35 hours a week-5 days a week-7 hours a day, etc. as well as “full and stable work, public and free Health and Education,” etc. supposedly consist “a radical context of struggle” (“Rizospastis”, 27/6/2010, pp. 10-11) – despite being cut-off from the context of the crisis. 2. The struggle against imperialist dependence – direct, here and NOW, withdrawal of Greece from EMU-EURO-EUROPEAN UNION. Before referring to the working class’s second front of struggle – a broader and more important than the first one – it is obligatory from the outset to note and underline again the big local capital’s current strategic choice of Greece STAYING inside EMU-EURO-EU, something which is intentionally concealed by all parties and organizations – a reference which allows the better understanding of the current attitude of the various political forces in the country. The confinement of the working class’s struggle to strictly trade-unionist demands, as this is projected by the social democrats (“K”KE-SYN) as well as the organizations of the extraparliamentary Left (KOE-NAR-ANTARSYA-KKE (m-l)-M-L KKE, etc.),7 even as “having as a spearhead the demands of struggle for the overthrow of the enslaving memorandum of the government-EU-IMF” (“Laikos Dromos,” 3/7/2010, p. 13), is at first sentencing the working class’s struggle to a defensive position, demobilizes and paralyzes it, and second – and more important – disconnects this necessary and of vital importance struggle of the working class for the defense of its class interests from the struggle against imperialist dependence by the EU – a dependence which has caused directly a series of the country’s economic problems, which are impossible to become understood to the required degree by the workers and the people without the struggle against EU, despite the breakdown of the myths attached to the EU. The big local capital’s current strategic choice of KEEPING Greece inside EMU-EURO-EU is openly supported by the government of big bourgeois PASOK, the monarchofascist ND and the Nazi-fascist LAOS, as well as silently by the two social democratic parties (“K”KE-SYN) and the organizations of the extraparliamentary Left (KOE-NAR-ANTARSYA-KKE (m-l)-M-L KKE, etc.), because exactly in this period they are not posing the issue of Greece WITHDRAWING here and now neither from the imperialist EU nor even from EMU-EURO. The refusal of social democratic “K”KE-SYN and the organizations of the extraparliamentary Left to pose the issue of Greece WITHDRAWING here and now from the imperialist EU (as well as EMU-EURO) means: 1) abandoning the attitude expressed in the anti-imperialist slogan “Greece out of the EU” and resigning from the conduction of anti-imperialist struggle, 2) silently supporting the big local capital’s aims and strategic choices of KEEPING Greece inside EMU-EURO-EU, aligning completely with its current designs, 3) supporting-perpetuating the country’s dependence by the imperialist EU’s monopolies. The social democratic leaders of SYN have abandoned the anti-imperialist position-slogan “Greece out of the EU” and are in favour of the country staying within EU, while those of “K”KE, who are sometimes invoking the slogan phenomenally-demagoguely in order to deceive the working people, have essentially abandoned it as well, because firstly, they are also in favour of Greece staying inside EU, as A. Papariga recently confessed in an answer of hers to a relevant question that the exit of Greece from the EU at this moment “is not a solution in itself”8, and therefore they are in favour of Greece staying in the EU, and secondly, they, along with Maoist revisionist KKE (m-l) and M-L KKE9 are transferring and relegating Greece’s exit from the EU to – as far as “K”KE is concerned – the Greek calends, i.e. the “Doomsday” of so-called “people’s power” – “people’s economy)10, and to – as far as the Maoists are concerned – their “socialism” – both of which remain in the confines of capitalism (because all three parties reject violent-armed revolution and smashing the state machinery, and consequently, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat). Despite all these, the social democratic “K”KE and the Maoist revisionists of KKE (m-l)/ M-L KKE attempted unsuccessfully to construct a “Left” disguise, to appear “more on the Left” by those (NAR, “Left Economists”) who only suggest an “exit from EMU-EURO,” and criticizing them, while at the same time, they are the ones who do not even suggest an “exit from EMU-EURO,” even as a “first reformist step,” and even more they do not suggest the here and now exit of Greece from imperialist EU, and therefore, since they do not do so, it is obvious that they are silently but fully and faithfully supporting the local capital’s current strategic choice of KEEPING Greece inside EMU-EURO-EU. In opposition to the government and all political parties and organizations, the revolutionary Marxists, i.e. Leninist-Stalinists of the Movement for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece 1918-55 are proposing, as already stated, the content of the working class and the people’s struggle for this period being the direct, here and NOW, WITHDRAWAL of Greece from the imperialist EU (alongside EMU-EURO), expressed in the position-slogan “Unilateral entire debt suspension of payments – Greece out of Euro-EMU-European Union” – a proposal addressed neither to governments nor to political parties and organizations, but to the proletariat and the peasantry, and first of all to the youth, all working people and the entire Greek people and its mass organizations (trade unions, farmers’ unions, students’ movement, etc.). Concerning the unbearable debt, it must not be recognized and paid by the working class and the people, because firstly it is not their creation, but the creation of the reactionary bourgeoisie, and secondly, it is in a large part the product of speculative usurious interest rates. It is the only proposal in direct opposition and rupture with the big local capital’s strategic choice of KEEPING Greece inside EMU-EURO-EU, as it is promoted in an auspicious moment and favourable, both in relation to the interior and Europe, situation. It is a proposal and overripe demand for promotion when the myths of imperialist Europe and local capitalism are becoming bankrupt daily in front of the wrathful eyes of the Greek people; the only proposal expressing popular and national interests, and most importantly, it is contributing to the development of an anti-imperialist consciousness for the broad popular masses and is suitable to cause the development of a large, broad, gigantic anti-imperialist movement – this is exactly what big local capital as well as EU monopolies fear –, suitable for the shifting of the necessary and requirement balance of power for the preparation of the future terminal release of the country for imperialist bondage, opening the way of revolutionary perspective, in combination with the fermentation of relevant revolutionary slogans in each phase of the struggle, in the direction of anti-imperialist-proletarian revolution and socialism-communism. 1 Aleka Papariga – “K”KE: “they are bringing back the scarecrow of bankruptcy,” “Rizospastis” 23/4/2010, p. 6, Alexis Tsipras – SYN: “nice fable about the dragon of bankruptcy,” “Eleftherotypia” 14/3/2010, 2 NAR: New Left Current, split of KKE from 1989. ANTARSYA: Anticapitalist Left Co-operation for the Overthrow: a coalition of organizations of the extraparliantary left. 3 “Rizospastis” 1/8/2010, p. 14 4 S. Zorbalas: “Marxism and Our Age,” p. 41, Athens 1976. Also look N. Kyritsis, “Neos Kosmos,” 9/1971, pp. 120-21, Th. Zachos, “Neos Kosmos,” 11/1972, pp. 40-41, etc. As for D. Koutsoumpas in the spirit of E.David (1899), Kautsky (1901), Tscheprakow (1969), Farakos (1974), he rejects-denies both relative and absolute immiseration, despite being economic laws, replacing them with the version of “tendency”: “a tendency of absolute and relative immiseration” (“R,” 25/4/2010, p. 4). 5 GSEE: General Confederation of Greek Workers. ADEDY: Civil Servants’ Confederation. PASKE (All-Greece Militant Syndicalist Movement): the syndicalist wing of PASOK. PAME (All-Workers Militant Front): the syndicalist wing of “K”KE. AP (Autonomi Paremvasi, Autonomous Intervention): the syndicalist wing of SYN. 6 DAKE: Independent Democratic Workers’ Movement. The syndicalist wing of Nea Dimokratia. 7 KOE: Communist Organization of Greece. Maoists co-operating with SYN in SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left). KKE (m-l) (Communist Party of Greece (marxist-leninist) and M-L KKE (Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Greece) are Maoists as well. 8 “Rizospastis,” 5/3/2010, p. 10 9 “Laikos Dromos,”, newspaper of M-LKKE, 5/6/2010, pp. 12-13 10 “K”KE: “disconnection from the EU along with people’s power,” (“Rizospastis” 27/6/2010, p. 11) 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 Site:http://anasintaxi.awardspace.com Blog (English):http://anasintaxi-en.blogspot.com Blog (Greek):http://anasintaxi.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list Marxist-Leninist-List@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list Marxist-Leninist-List@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list
