France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Greece: What action the
victory of the "no"? (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
With Greek anarcho-syndicalists, Alternative Libertaire calls for "turn defeat capital a
real victory of the working class." We must socialize the banks, confiscate businesses
that have blackmailed salary and conducted disguised lockout, and place them under the
control of workers'. Break with capitalism is the only way out of the crisis. ---- In the
referendum held by the government Tsipras 5 July 2015, the Greek people overwhelmingly
said 'no' to the agreement plan submitted by the Troika (the European Commission, the
European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund) at the meeting Eurogroup of 25 June
2015. ---- The "yes" was supported by almost all the European leaders as well as by the
bourgeois media.
In Greece, the referendum marked a deep class divide. For a week, the country has lived to
the rhythm of pro-yes and no pro-demonstrations. The yes was ardently defended by the
propertied classes, by the gilded youth, the Greek Medef allied to the trade union
bureaucracy of GSEE, by PASOK (social democrats) and the right was hammered incessantly by
private television, was claimed by banks and companies, some of which have even
blackmailed to pay salaries ...
Failure was worn by the working class and defended by the political and trade union forces
that defend their interests, including the anarcho-syndicalists. Sovereignists and
neo-Nazis of Golden Dawn also called to vote no, but the street mobilization has mainly
done not exist on "social" and marginalized the non-nationalist.
A yes vote would have been catastrophic
A yes vote to the new austerity program would have been catastrophic for the Greek
proletariat and would once again delivered to the quarry of European capitalists. By
refusing this agreement plan, he probably wanted to show that he was able to raise his
head and refused to let a handful of technocrats, bankers and shipowners decide his fate.
But we must not delude ourselves about the consequences of this referendum primarily
intended to reunite at the polls the heterogeneous social bloc SYRIZA which brought to power.
After many failed on endless negotiations without having achieved almost nothing, and
after constantly lowered the already timid ambitions of the Thessaloniki agenda, Alexis
Tsipras, threatened with being abandoned by some of his electorate and by the base Syriza,
had no choice but to take his government popular sovereignty bath.
The change will not come from a leftist government more or less radical
If we can rejoice in the snub inflicted on defenders of austerity in Europe, we keep in
mind that this referendum is absolutely not an end in itself and that it is not this that
will prevent the European capitalists to continue their offensive ... neither the Russian
or Chinese capitalists want to snatch their share of the cake!
The Tsipras government will fine scramble to reach an agreement less disastrous, no
lasting improvement of living conditions of the Greek proletariat will only be achieved as
long as the capitalist system, based on the law of profit, will remain in place.
The change will not come from a leftist government more or less radical, it will come from
the ability of working people to unite and organize themselves autonomously to bring down
the capitalist power and return the wealth in the hands of those who produce them.
Greek anarcho-syndicalists call for a split in the GSEE, to rebuild a struggle unionism
The anarcho-syndicalist Initiative Rocinante and argues that immediate socialize banks and
confiscate the companies last week, blackmailed salary and conducted disguised lockout,
and placed under control of working men and women.
We should not wait for these government measures Syriza, but a regenerated labor movement.
Rocinante therefore calls on all unions and union members remained loyal to the working
class to leave the GSEE confederation bureaucratic rotten to the bone, to build a new
unionism, reorganized on a new basis, democratic and class.
For Rocinante, must be prevented, by the ratio of forces on the workplace and in the
unions, the return of Syriza government to the negotiating table with the Eurogroup, just
to get a less painful compromise.
Thus, the referendum should not give rise to illusions about the possibility of social
transformation from above.
With our comrades in Rocinante, we call "capital turn defeat into a real victory of the
working class" and we will continue to show our solidarity, beyond borders, with those who
struggle for a future free from the capitalism and all forms of exploitation.
Alternative Libertaire, July 5, 2015
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Grece-Quelles-suites-a-la-victoire
