The CP publication reports: At 5 in the morning 251 MPs voted for the government's proposal, while the entire Parliamentary Group of the KKE voted against it. As a whole there were 32 against, 8 who voted "present" and 9 who were absent [including the charlatan Varoufakis - C.A.].
The General Secretary of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumpas, addressing the government stressed: "You were always supporters of political amorality. You adjusted the 'no' of the people to a 'yes' for the new memorandum." "Your strategy, your programme, your position towards the EU and eurozone, your position regarding the development path and system that you want to serve, inevitably lead to you to struggle at the side of the EU, ECB, IMF, big capital, the monopoly groups, over how the division of the spoils will be conducted, how you will serve their profitability, how in the end you will reduce the people's income, how you will economically reduce the price of labour power, how you will suck the people dry, so that the parasites of the system will prosper." "There is an alternative solution if the people struggle for a rupture with the EU, capital and their power. For example, we can abolish the EU commitments which have caused stagnation in domestic production, from sugar and meat to shipbuilding and many other sectors. We can utilize the contradictions between the imperialist centres and achieve international agreements of mutual benefit for Greece under people's power, which will be disengaged from the EU and NATO. We can pave the way for the satisfaction of the people's needs if we proceed to the socialization of monopolies, the means of production with scientific nationwide planning of economy." The KKE called on the working people to organize their counterattack in the streets and the workplaces against the new destructive measures. The above is an excerpt. The full statement adds important nuances. Accompanying photos show the July 10 mass rally - note the broad range of ages as well as the sheer size of it. See http://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/No-to-the-new-leftwing-memorandum/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
