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From what i can gather from various news sources things have calmed down outside the parliment, but still fighting outside athems university, much of the local media has been active in the strike but might go back to work to address the turn in events today.
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Comrade, if it's not too much trouble, can you shed more light on the effect the deaths have had on the morale of the workers? Do you think it could potentially damage the workers' movement overall? What has been the reaction of leftist parties to the deaths? Are there any plans for action over the next few days or weeks?
KKE Stance on recent developments in Greece. From: kne.gr/971.html
Holy shit this all came on here fast lol. Can anyone give me a quick rundown of what exactly is happening?
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A revolution .. hopefully
Seriosuly, neighbouring and nearby countries are in need for something big and hoping that the massive working class movement will "spill over" if the things in Greece all go well.
pretty good chronological rundown:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2010_Greek_protests
"Ideas do not need weapons, if they can convince the great masses." - Fidel Castro
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Extremely short version: because of a massive crisis, the Greek government has been trying to enforce harsh anti-worker measures, in order to persuade other European countries to agree with a bail-out package.
In response to these measures, a general strike was called. Mass protests and riots ensued. A fire at a bank killed three. The media basically accused anarchists or other protesters of being responsible for the deaths. Also, just moments after the fire, the main fascist party blamed the Communist Party. In regard to that, you should read this and this.
What's the matter Lagerboy, afraid you might taste something?
There are demonstrations scheduled even today but many of the people who were just starting to abandon their couch will probably stay there for a while in an expected shock. In some time things will be better regarding morale obviously but this took us many steps behind.
...We shall never recognise equality with the peasant profiteer, just as we do not recognise “equality” between the exploiter and the exploited, between the sated and the hungry, nor the “freedom” for the former to rob the latter. And those educated people who refuse to recognise this difference we shall treat as whiteguards, even though they may call themselves democrats, socialists, internationalists, Kautskys, Chernovs, or Martovs.
V.I. Lenin
Well the bill has passed
Excuse my spellign
So, what is the status of things now? Have protests stopped now that the bill has passed?
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Is anything still happening in Greece? I haven't heard a single freakin' update since after the bank workers were killed.
A general strike has been scheduled on May 20th and on this Saturday there is a demonstration called by the CP in Athens.
And since it's a party and not a union demo, lots and lots of red flags. Finally.
...We shall never recognise equality with the peasant profiteer, just as we do not recognise “equality” between the exploiter and the exploited, between the sated and the hungry, nor the “freedom” for the former to rob the latter. And those educated people who refuse to recognise this difference we shall treat as whiteguards, even though they may call themselves democrats, socialists, internationalists, Kautskys, Chernovs, or Martovs.
V.I. Lenin
yesterday there was a demostration.On the first degree unions call(which is basicly runned by anarchists and leftists) there was a 6.000 gathering 50/50 of leftists and anarchists.
photos:http://athens.indymedia.org/front.ph...cle_id=1168651
I think that by next week the death of the three will be forgoten.I dont think people really give a fuck.And as days passes,more people that are "around" anarchist space will show their support once again.
also,small protests were organised all around Greece by anarchists.
Mind you,that in a country that noone apologises(AND I MEAN NOONE)for their acts,the anarchist space was the only political entity that went out and said: "its our fault".
[FONT="Arial Black"]Huge rally of KKE in Athens on 15 May 2010[/FONT]
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From: http://inter.kke.gr/
The Saturday’s rally unfolded to a thrilling march
The rally of KKE held on Saturday May 15 at Pedion Areos Square was a thrilling red river of people. The slogans and the atmosphere of the rally reflected the determination of the whole people to resist, struggle, defend their rights and pave a new way through their class struggles. From the very first moment the nationwide rally of the party established itself as one of the most massive demonstrations held in Athens over the last years.
The impact of the rally, the message of tens of thousands communists, supporters, friends of the party and KNE, of people who cooperate with the party, of mass organisations of the people’s movement, intellectuals and artists who came from every corner of the country will have a multiplied effect in the next days.
It will have a special impact on the moments of responsibility which are about to come; for the daily workers’ and people’s struggles, for the improvement of their organization; for the tireless work of KKE and KNE for the formation of the front, the other path of development, the people’s power and economy, socialism.
The long distance and the tiredness did not prevent the people to participate in the rally. The blocks were so huge that it took them more than one hour to gather in the place where the rally was held. “KKE does not sign a statement of repentance for imperialism”, “come with us there is a solution”, “the winner must be the people not the monopolies”, “organization, alliance, people’s power” were the main slogans of the rally.
The mass rally and the march of KKE were covered by the “902” radio and TV station. The Greek bourgeois media (except from the state TV channel) sought to bury the rally and the march of KKE. The radio station “SKAI” reported in the news a demonstration of 30 people in Thessaloniki while it did not say a word about the one 100.000 protesters in the rally of KKE providing monumental bourgeois “information”.
On the other hand, “associated press” violated the truth talking about a demonstration of 6000 people.
It is obvious that the mass participation in the rally of KKE disturbed the bourgeoisie, the monopolies and their staff. Contrary to the Greek media several international media such as euronews and vesti referred to the rally of KKE (http://ru.euronews.net/nocomment/201...ek-communists/, http://www.vesti.ru/videos?vid=272706&p=2&sort=1&cid=1).
Here you can watch videos from the rally of KKE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSjwwf91rEg
The General Secretary of the CC of KKE, comrade Aleka Papariga stressed from the podium:
“The government is shamelessly lying when it claims that the measures will last for three or maximum four years. This system, which is rotten to the core, is not eternal. The people’s sacrifices will benefit the capitalists, the monopolies. And even if we assume that the Greek economy will soon exit from the cycle of the crisis and recover, things will be equally worse for the people.
The leadership of PASOK pushes us many years back; by posing to KKE the misleading, intimidating question “do you respect and obey the constitution or not” it prepares for new papers of “national loyalty”; It pursues to penalize the communist ideology, even the mere declaration and defense of socialism-communism. But this time it does not reckon an important factor namely the possibility of a people’s counterattack. But, who are those who talk about the respect of the constitution?
We declare once again, clearly, our firm self-evident orientation since 1918: to struggle at any cost not merely for the daily people’s problems, but also to convince the people that their future is socialism communism.
Constitution is the product of the balance of forces at each period. When the situation tends to be reactionary, then constitution changes to the worst. When there is a tendency for the balance of forces to be in favour of the people, then it can improve and become less blatant; and when the people win they will make their own constitution.
There has never been in history, neither will in the future, a bourgeois government, either an one-party government or a coalition government, which has not violated specific fundamental articles of its own constitution. People’s sovereignty is incompatible with capitalism.
When you defend constitution, you defend the right of the capitalists to exploit the wealth that the people produce, to possess the most important commodity, namely the labor force, the ability of man to work. You defend the supreme law, the law of surplus value.
The way out is identified with a new political choice that should be prepared distinctively through the processes of the movement and the social political alliance from the bottom up. The streams of resistance exist already; they must merge to a big precipitous river.
Nowadays, it is not enough the people to project a list of demands, appeals and requests. The demands, the goals of struggle, the concrete proposals should demonstrate the possibility to solve the people’s problems. However, they can acquire dynamics and be effective only if they are part of the strategy, of the struggle for the overthrow of monopolies, of the struggle for people’s power and economy, if they are linked with the alliance and the joint struggle with KKE, which does not presuppose the agreement with KKE’s perception on socialism, communism.
Nowadays, there are objective conditions that enable a different organisation of the society characterized by the decision of the people to transform the ownership of monopolies to social ownership.
New strike of PAME on Thursday 20 May
Communists will meet their friends again in the new strike of PAME on 20 May. Till then they will give their best for the biggest possible success of the strike.
Significant international participation
Angelo Alves, member of the Political Bureau of the Portuguese Communist Party, Erhan Nalchagi member of the Political Bureau of the Turkish Communist Party, Astor Garcia, member of the Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the People’s of Spain and David Para, representative of the National Council of the Workers’ Party of Belgium expressed in a storm of applauses and slogans their solidarity with the nationwide rally of KKE as well as with the struggles of the party and the class oriented trade union movement in Greece.
Generous internationalist solidarity
55 Communist and Workers’ parties from all over the world expressed their solidarity and sent messages of support to the struggle of KKE and the working class in Greece (below you can see the list of the parties)
In addition, a message of support and solidarity with KKE was sent by the 42 parties that participated in the International Communist Seminar of the Workers’ Party of Belgium, held at this weekend in Brussels.
Furthermore, the Labour Party (EMEP) collected signatures from 180 trade unionists supporting a text of support and solidarity with the struggle of KKE and the working people in Greece.
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What does comrade Aleka Papariga mean when she refers to "socialism communism"? Is this just a mistranslation?
"Face the world like a roaring blaze, before all the tears begin to turn silent. Burn down everything that stands in our way. Bang the drum."
Socialism-communism probably to distinguish social democracy's "socialism" from our own?
It's not any new theoretical concept or something like that, just an expression.
...We shall never recognise equality with the peasant profiteer, just as we do not recognise “equality” between the exploiter and the exploited, between the sated and the hungry, nor the “freedom” for the former to rob the latter. And those educated people who refuse to recognise this difference we shall treat as whiteguards, even though they may call themselves democrats, socialists, internationalists, Kautskys, Chernovs, or Martovs.
V.I. Lenin
Today's strike was a success.Nothing much or fancy,still with police numbers(which means less than real numbers),there was 100.000 on the street.There would me more people but metro rail and busses also striked so people from far areas couldnt come.
Police tryed to raid into the haunt of Antiauthoritarian Movement and they surrounded the haunt of Anarchist Filling Cabbinet.They also attacked the union of Book-Paper workers outside their offices(also at Exarheia).
Some fascists showed up and got beat the fuck up,which was cool because at that point it became to peacefull to keep an intrest.
from: http://inter.kke.gr/News/2010news/2010-05-20strike
[FONT="Arial Black"]Strike on May 20: Another successful battle of PAME[/FONT]
Millions of strikers and tens of thousands of protestors, workers and young people, gave one more strong response to the anti-people offensive condemning the severe anti-people measures with their participation in the 9th successful strike of All workers' Militant Front (PAME) in five months.
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Early in the dawn a few hundreds of strikers of PAME occupied the building of the Ministry of Labour denouncing the new round of anti-people measures by the government, the EU and the IMF. They hanged a banner on the building's façade bearing the slogan “Reject the measures”. The river of the strikers headed for the Ministry of Labour which has been the heart of the struggle of the class oriented forces. Public buildings were also occupied in other cities across the country.
Once again, despite the fact that the media tried to bury the strike demonstrations of PAME, the working people turned their backs on the compromised yellow leaderships of GSEE-ADEDY (trade union federations in private and public sectors) and transformed the demonstrations of the class oriented forces to massive rallies that attracted the majority of the strikers.
In their speeches the representatives of the class oriented forces pointed out the recent announcements of the social democrat government about social security system. The new measures bring a dim future for the working people as they force the people to work more than 40 years, they increase the retirement ages, they reduce the pensions and transform them to a starvation allowance of 360 euros while at the same time they abolish the list of hazardous occupations.
At the same time, communists combined the strike with a significant ideological and political struggle against the propaganda of the bourgeoisie claims that strikes allegedly damage tourism and promotes vile anticommunism and propaganda against PAME. The class oriented forces revealed that when capital talks about tourist development, it means the development that benefits the monopoly groups; it means the “Greek tourist paradise” where workers work like slaves, while at the same time the Greek people experience the shrinkage of the duration of their holidays as well as of the number of the workers who can afford holidays.
The demonstration in Athens was held at the square of Omonoia, at the centre of Athens. Representatives of PAME, Αll Greek Antimonopoly Rally of the self-employed and the small tradesman (PASEVE), All Peasants' Militant Rally (PASY), Students' Militant Front (MAS) saluted the rally. Thereafter, in a militant atmosphere, the blocks of PAME headed for the ministry of Labour without giving any rise to the provocation of the mechanisms of the bourgeois system.
We should also note that the wave of multiform and touching solidarity of communist and workers' parties, trade unions, mass organisations, workers and young people continues growing.
The working people, the self-employed, the young people declared that the struggle will continue even more dynamically paving the way for the people's alliance, for the alliance of the working class and its allies.
