(en) Britain, Edinburgh Anarchist Federation: Text written for the Papandreou protest

The protest we mentioned last week, there was a text written for it in the hope we could 
get a flyer together. This might not happen, but here?s the text. ---- Let us inform you 
about this amazing TED speaker that has no dignityat all: after he spent two years selling 
out the social wealth of thegreek people and managed to pauperize the country, he is 
nowwandering around in universities and conferences ? always outsideGreece ? presenting 
himself as some sort of saviour so that he iscreating the proper profile for an 
international career in politics(as destroying only one country is not enough). --- G. 
Papandreou did his job very well, serving theinterest of the big capitalists in Europe by 
managing to present amainly private debt ? created by corruption of the politicians of 
Greece in association with some greedy big capitalists across Europeand U.S.A. (notably 
Siemens & Goldman Sachs) ? as a public onecreated through the laziness of Greek people. 
The creation of thispropaganda gave the moral acceptance of the citizens of E.U. tosupport 
all the austerity and antisocial policies that were takenfrom the government of G. 
Papandreou. According to BBC, Bild andother mass media, the ?lazy? Greek people had to ?pay?.

A huge attack against Greek society started, whichof course only benefited Capital in 
Europe and Greece. In only twoyears the minimum wage was halved (to around ?360, which 
cannotcover the expenses for renting a flat); all the basic working rightsthat have been 
won during the previous decades were abolished; publicassets started getting sold for 
ridiculously low prices and, ofcourse, all the private debt became public debt. All the 
properconditions in order for the few holders of capital to exploit anation as much as 
possible were established; in two short years G.Papandreou under the commands of his 
capitalistic bosses implementedall the neoliberal policies that Thatcher needed 11 years 
and a warto achieve.

During all this time the people in Greece weretrying to resist against their exploiters 
using any and all means ofdefence. Massive strikes and protests have taken place in Greece 
inan attempt for the people to fight for a decent future forthemselves, but the 
Government?s response was massive and radicalrepression by the legal system and the 
police. G. Papandreou represents the social exploitation and inequality that this 
systempromotes and it is our duty to make clear with our actions that thesepeople are not 
welcome. It is time for all of us to reject thissystem that opposes our freedom by 
creating a society based inexploitation and domination and fight back towards the 
establishmentof a society that will promote mutual respect, social equality,social and 
individual freedom. We must show our solidarity with thepeople that are in struggle around 
the world and organize ourselvesagainst our exploiters.