According to a report, the EU, ECB and IMF sent an email to the Greek government “insisting on liquidating state enterprises and dismissing their employees without compensation.”

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Here's something just to piss you off:


The privatisation programme is being pushed by the most right-wing layers utterly unconcerned about the social destruction being wrought as a result. Stelios Stavridis, former head of Taiped, gave an interview with Norway’s Bergens Tidende newspaper in which he enthused over the asset-stripping and denounced those opposing it as “averagely clever”.

Stavridis was recently removed as the head of privatisations after he was exposed as receiving hospitality aboard the private jet of oil and shipping magnate Dimitris Melissanidis, soon after the latter had signed a deal to buy the state’s one-third share in gaming company Opap. Stavridis was previously a candidate for the pro-privatisation Drasi party before joining New Democracy in 2012.

In the interview, titled, “ For sale: Sunny country with 11 million inhabitants”, Stavridis commented, “Privatisation; it’s a god’s blessing. Because it’s all about investment, it’s all about job creation, it’s all about wealth creation.” He added, “Growth in this country depends on privatisation. So, we are the last hope and the last resort of Greece.”

Addressing those opposed to the selling off of the former airport site at Elliniko, he stated, “They’re just preaching. They’re just saying no, no, no. F*ck you!”

“It’s the free-market competition”, he continued. “Someone wins; someone loses. Now, if you start, you know, crying your head off because some people are taking advantage of your misery, I mean it’s your own responsibility to turn things around. C’est la vie. It’s a matter of thinking”, he stated.

Such language typifies the extraordinarily privileged and fascistic layers, both in Greece and internationally, who are dictating Europe’s austerity measures. Stavridis’s comments were made as more details emerged on the scale of the social tragedy that has been unleashed against the working class population.

One can't help but get the feeling that they are pushing to see how far they can go, how much misery and insult can be delivered before it blows up in their faces.

A large labour demonstration against the anti-people political line and the war

The demonstration of the All-workers’ Militant Front (PAME) was held in Aristotelis sq. in Thessaloniki with the large participation of workers, self-employed, students, on the occasion of the opening of the “Thessaloniki International Fair” and the presence of the Greek Prime Minister, A. Samaras of the governmental anti-people political line in the city.

The central speaker, Sotiris Zarianopoulos, member of the Executive Secretariat of PAME, noted the following amongst other things:

“Colleagues, capitalism has decayed. It can only provide unemployment, poverty, new crises and wars. Monopolies and states are tearing each other apart for profits, energy resources, new markets. The war drums are again beating in our neighbourhood. Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and now in Syria. Lebanon and Iran are to follow. The new wind of Obama and Hollande has been proven to be just as poisonous. The Greek government is once again complicit in the crime, providing bases and facilities for the murderers. At the same time when our people are going through one of their most difficult periods, it is not a useless luxury but an integral part of their struggle to rise up against the new imperialist crime. The hot war is the other side of the internal war that has been declared by the capitalist class against the workers and the popular strata. The source of evil is common to both: The peoples must pay for the crisis and profits of the capitalists with poverty and blood.”

The cadre of PAME referred to the line followed by the forces of class consensus inside the trade union movement, which have the majority in the confederations of GSEE (private sector) and ADEDY (public sector), stressing that now they are appearing with anti-government “sloganeering”, calling strikes without organization, undermining the strike activity, and seeking in essence merely the alternation in the bourgeois management of the system.

On PAME’s part the speaker clarified that: “There is no other recipe, other management formula which will make the system less barbaric, more humane. It is a fraud..(…) There are no saviours except the people themselves, organized and determined, the people’s alliance of workers, self-employed, poor farmers, women and youth which can take the country out of the swamp of the crisis to the benefit of the people themselves and not the monopolies (…) PAME makes it clear. This government should fall and every government that will oppress the workers for the interests of the monopolies. They must be cast aside. No one has struggled and is struggling more than us for such a prospect. But not so that we can replace today’s government with another without changing anything. And the new saviours are guaranteeing that they will not change anything in essence(…)

As PAME, the class-oriented trade union movement, we express our optimism, our faith that the working class united on the basis of its own interests and not under false flags, organized, determined to confront the root of the evil, in an alliance with the other popular strata is all-powerful. It can cast down those who talk of optimism and plan the slaughter. It can overturn every anti-people policy. It can take the responsibility for its life into its own hands. It can take control of the economy, it can take the power into its own hands.”

The other speakers at the rally were: Dimitris Vlachos, member of the Firefighters’ Federation’s committee, Vasilis Artemiou from the National Federation of workers in Beverages, Rizos Maroudas on behalf of the All-farmers’ Militant Rally (PASY).

The rally was followed by a march in the central streets of Thessaloniki.
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