(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL - international,
reece: to the attempt of a "coup d'capitalist state" (fr, it, pt)
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"Greece will pay" proclaim in unison the IMF, the EU and the ECB. "The proletariat will
pay" retorts Greek employers. Denouncing an "economic coup", the anarcho-syndicalists
attack the banks and corporations that are blocking the payment of wages, called for a
general strike and anti-capitalist do everything so that the "yes" does not outweigh the
referendum on 5 July. ---- There are several months the Greek government, dominated by the
leftist coalition Syriza, has decided to engage in negotiations with creditors no way of
Greece. ---- Since the start of these negotiations, IMF, ECB, European Commission and
Minister of Finance of the European Union (Eurogroup) are pressuring the Greek government
to accept a new austerity plan in exchange for the extension of the financial aid. For
over four months, these brigands worked to hammer no alternative to their policy was
acceptable or even conceivable.
The Greek government has fed the illusion that an agreement was possible. He conceded many
(including renouncing question the Greek debt) and got nothing.
Youth, workers, and its retirees that Greek-s-es are tired of this charade. These last-es
have heard in recent days on the streets with their anger and opposition to a retirement
age of decline, even though their amount was gutted in recent years.
Threatened to be released by part of the electorate and the base of Syriza, Tsipras and
his government finally rejected the new plan imposed by creditors of Greece and decided to
consult the Greek people by referendum on July 5 while calling to vote No to the diktat of
the ECB, the IMF and the EU, which provides, among other retirement to 67 years and a new
VAT increase while salaries and pensions have been declining in recent years.
Blackmail banks and employers
Faced with this situation, our comrades of the anarcho-syndicalist Initiative Rocinante
denounce a coup d'Economic State Capital, and call for an anti-capitalist respond with a
general strike.
Every day, they and they are taking action against banks and companies that openly call to
vote "yes", and announced that they were suspending payments and salaries, and even held a
lockout pending the outcome of the referendum. Similarly, leaders of business and the main
trade union bureaucracy (GSEE) countries signed a joint statement calling to vote "yes".
Today Rocinante organized a rally outside the headquarters of the Greek Medef on 1 July;
outside the headquarters of the GSEE on 2 July.
Demonstration on 30 June in the streets of Athens, against banks and companies that make
blackmail to wages. © Rocinante
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Grece-face-a-la-tentative-d-un
Suffice to say that the anarcho-syndicalists do not celebrate blissfully virtues of the
referendum. In a capitalist framework, with the means of pressure available to the
employers, the springs are fundamentally flawed. Rocinante therefore calls for everything,
in the streets and at the polls, for the "yes" does not pass of 5 July referendum. Their
slogan: "Let us transform the cost of state capital anticapitalist workers' response."
Capitalism laughs referendums
Alternative Libertaire supports these initiatives and all those that go in the direction
of a break with the Greek capitalist system and solidarity with youth, workers, and its
retirees that Greek-s.
However the referendum should not be an end in itself. It should not be a simple way out
for a government deadlocked. Also we know that European governments believe referendums.
We saw in 2005 with the "No" scathing Dutch and French voters against capitalist
constitution of Europe. They do not care completely and always seek to circumvent as their
power will not be threatened.
It is this power that must be addressed by snatching it from the hands of the capitalists,
the profit rate in Greece is the highest in the European Union. It is their expropriation
from below that is the agenda, the sharing of the wealth produced and redistribution not
by a government that does not undermine such a system but by a people power that is direct
emanation of the working men and women.
It's good for international support for the mobilization of the Greek people that we will
force European governments to cancel the Greek debt.
Alternative Libertaire, 30 June 2015
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Grece-face-a-la-tentative-d-un
