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This was on a leaflet being passed out by a member of the Party of
Communists USA in front of the meeting on Syriza at NYU last night:
http://solidnet.org/greece-communist-party-of-greece/cp-of-greece-on-the-dangerous-and-misleading-campaign-of-so-called-solidarity-with-the-greek-people-en-ru-es-ar
Comment of the International Relations Section of the CC of the KKE
At the same time as the discussions and meetings of the new Greek
SYRIZA-ANEL government are under way at an international level, before
the beginning of the official negotiations with the “European partners”
and “lenders”, a “campaign of solidarity with the Greek people and left
government” is being promoted by certain forces abroad.
However, if someone looks at the real conditions and facts in an
objective way they would notice that the following are at the centre of
the negotiations: how the people will continue to pay the high price for
the debt that they did not create, how the competitiveness of the
business groups will be reinforced, how the “reforms” will proceed
(which ,as the Prime Minister A. Tsipras stressed during his meeting
with the French President F. Hollande on 4/2 are aims of the government,
no one is imposing them), how ready money will be secured for capital’s
recovery.
We remind ourselves that the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government has made
it clear that there will be a new program, in agreement with the
lenders. That all the commitments to the “predators of the markets” will
be observed, which means that the people will pay for the loans. That
it will work for the salvation of “our common European home”, i.e. the
EU, which is an imperialist union. It will honour its “obligations” to
NATO. And a characteristic example of all this is that the new
government voted for the EU sanctions against Russia, the same sanctions
that the previous government had voted for. It has also assured Israel
that Greece’s cooperation with Israel will continue.
When SYRIZA and its allies abroad talk about ‘the end of austerity”, in
reality they are talking about supporting capital and the continuation
of a “frugal life” for the people, something which the new Finance
Minister Y. Varoufakis spoke of as being necessary. The workers will
continue to live in impoverishment, with downgraded rights and needs,
even if the very few measures to manage extreme poverty, which have been
promised by the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government, are implemented.
The workers of other countries must in no instance become cheerleaders
for negotiations that are alien to the interests of the Greek workers.
This is a campaign that is being orchestrated by the “Party of the
European Left” and other “flotsam and jetsam” of the class struggle,
like the CPUSA. The workers in other countries must stand in solidarity
with the class-oriented labour and people’s movement, which is calling
on the workers and popular strata to struggle to recover all the losses
they suffered during the crisis period, to safeguard their contemporary
rights and the satisfaction of their needs and to create the
pre-conditions for a change of the class that is in power.
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