France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups CGA - IAL #103 -
Anti-electioneering - Greece, one dilemma: capitalism or social
revolution! (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
As we close this journal, Greece is about to enter the Syriza party (roughly the
equivalent of the Left Front in France) ... in the vicious circle of authoritarian rulers.
For us, far from solving the problems of the Greek workers and workers · that · s, the
election of the legislative Syriza only reinforces the illusion that change is possible
through the ballot box. ---- Even Syriza managed to form a coalition enabling him to
govern the country, the party will be in all cases to juggle to keep the favor of the more
moderate sections of this coalition will face the Troika's dictatorship to block any
reform up in a good sense and do not dare to break with the roots of the Greek problem:
Beyond debt, capitalism and exploitation of the majority by a minority.
The calm before another storm?
Since 2012 and the meteoric rise of Syriza, the social movement is almost reduced to
silence, everyone hoping to see something happen when the party is in power. A strong
wait-is felt in the cities of Athens and Thessaloniki, even though we were accustomed · e
· s to see the full barricades, demonstrator · e · s harassing police lines, joy and
experiments. Even some sections of the Greek anti-authoritarian movement was requested in
June 2012 in a campaign against the vote was sound and some comrades are gone · e · s give
voice to the electoral left. But it seems they / are they in income · e · s: there is not
much to expect from this party, but there is much to build for bounce once buried past
election promises and illusion . Everyone is on their toes and tongues are wagging, not
for Jan. 25 and the champagne will flow from left but alcohol Molotov cocktails in the
months to follow.
No, our hopes Greece will definitely not rest on the shoulders of the left electioneering
which as always destroy the aspirations to change the working classes, but the many
support networks, solidarity and resistance that formed around in Greece since the
beginning of the crisis. We put our hopes on the dynamism and strength of the
revolutionary groups and in particular on the actions of our anarchist comrades. The
recent mobilization to support anarchist prisoners on hunger strike (Nikos Romanos
particular) has shown, the anarchist movement is able to put people on the street and bend
the rulers. It is only by a popular outburst after the election ahead of Syriza by street
protests like those of December 2008, which will unite anarchist forces the rest of the
exploited · e · s, we can see the change coming in Greece and ricochet in the remainder of
the European Union.
We are and will therefore be particularly careful and attentive to the social and
political situation in the country for these reasons. Here we relay a leaflet of our
comrades of Patras, the third largest city, which just seems the situation there.
Guillaume (RP) and Giorgos (Montpellier)
Faced with the dilemma of
totalitarian capitalism or capitalism with a human face ...
i do not vote.
"Because I want to live free now. And this freedom is mine, it is impossible that I be
granted by any of these cunning opportunists who do not stop to say "we decide and we
order." It is for this reason that "I decide and command" too, but for myself. I impose
their freedom through my form of organization, the latter being devoid of wickedness and
vice. I am convinced that if all workers and reflect and lead to the same conclusion as
me, we shall soon experience the good pleasures and fruitful results of our forms of free
organizations and free from any politician rot. "
Stavros Kouhtsoglou newspaper "Defense", No. 210, November 2, 1920.
Elections as an institution was created precisely to serve the bourgeois system and its
own interests. Through a process of supposedly equal participation between rich and poor,
it answers the question of who will be the shameful minority who will get the political
management of the state, the privilege of leading the enormous social majority and to
ensure the same state interests and those of legal exploiters of the social base (the
owners)? To say it quickly, the management of production, labor, education, health and all
the activities that make up what we call the social, pass into the hands of an elite that
limit, shapes, legitimate and delegitimized at will the operating conditions of the whole
society, not that it has a voice.
In the social and political situation, elections are like a pressure relief valve for a
political and economic system already bankrupt, which attempts to extend its end of life
by addressing the development of social peace treaties.
OF First, it is an opportunity to restructure the right-fascist bloc that dominates the
country in recent years and has established conditions for genuine misery, submission and
punishment for the vast majority of society; it is the occasion of the re-emergence of
this block a few years to implement even more totalitarian management methods, and
destroying what has not yet been ruined.
On the other hand, it is an opportunity for the institutional left reformist and
capitalize on the struggles of the previous years. This hinders the development of a
social movement and combative class by developing the conditions of social peace and
class, removing all sense of self-organization and word by promoting interclassism. In
fact, through an alternative investment proposal of the capitalist crisis, attempts to
find a new way to continue the capitalist attack with the least impact possible. However,
there is a proposal which, sooner or later, is doomed to failure. For today, the crisis is
so deep that neither the return to the model of welfare state in previous decades, nor the
development of the global capitalist attack is possible.
In this context, regarding the company and its own resistance, there are only two options:
- First, there is the option of waiting face the new political environment which is in the
process of to build. This would result in disorganization, the downturn and the decline of
the social movement and class, and would have unpredictable consequences for its ability
to restructure and offensive;
- secondly, there is the possibility of further intensification and expansion of social
struggles and class, with no illusions about the humanization of the system that generates
poverty and death, far from the "rescuers" and social rage managers. There is a choice of
social self-organization, the awareness of the fact that, apart ourselves, nobody can
fight for our interests. There is the connection attempt and radicalization of struggles
"from below" to build a more cohesive project that seeks total overthrow of the existing
system and seek to implement the complex and ongoing process of social transformation and
social revolution.
While this process is stigmatized by his enemies as utopian, indeed it is the only
realistic proposal on the organization and management of the city, Common, work and life
public by the same company and through its own institutions. This through the creation of
horizontal structures, collective and anti-hierarchical, such as workers' councils,
popular assemblies and common libertarian constantly promoting social empowerment,
creating relations of solidarity and mutual aid, life in community and will be fed by the
revolution as they feed the reinforcing it and making it evolve.
Against the barbarism of capitalism and the State can not promise that the perpetuation of
exploitation and oppression. Against submission, poverty, and social cannibalism imposed
by the fascist leaders, the only hope now is to follow the path of struggle,
self-organization and solidarity, with no illusions about the organization the current
system. The only issue is the social, political and class, strengthening and improving
horizontal, radical and collective struggles in the neighborhoods, in the workplace, in
schools and faculties in the street. The unique perspective of emancipation is the
struggle for social revolution, to create a society of equality, solidarity, justice and
freedom.
we vote the collectivization, resistance, self-organization!
social revolution, communism and anarchy!
AG anarchist response to social and class.
Patras, January 2015 | saktapatra.wordpress.com
http://www.c-g-a.org/motion/grece-un-seul-vrai-dilemme-capitalisme-ou-revolution-sociale
