Prime minister Alexis Tsipas (SYRIZA)announced his resignation. Most likely there will be elections in 20 September 2015.
(Photo: 6/2015)
On Sunday June 28, 2015 in Naousa, old communists, guerillas of the Democratic Army held their annual meeting. Our organisation, the Movement for the Reorganisation of the KKE 1918-1955 participated. We had books, posters, newspapers, etc.
The new bailout agreement constitutes a complete surrender to the fascist extortion of the EU representatives (primarily of Germany and its satellite states) and is in total opposition to the will of the Greek people expressed with the NO vote in the recent referendum; in the name of the detrimental membership of the country in the Eurozone.
It cannot be left unnoticed that there were and there still are plans made by the EU imperialists to remove the elected government and replace it with another one without elections as it was the case with the government led by the former banker Papadimos in 2011.
The only path for the working class and the people is the one of class struggle against the imperialist intervention in the internal affairs of the country and the new harsh, barbarous, anti-popular measures. At the same time, the plans of forming a government without elections, clearly a fascist constitutional violation, should be disrupted. The central slogan of this struggle cannot be any other than the immediate exit from EU-EMU-Eurozone.
Movement for the Reorganisation of KKE 1918-55
Athens, 27 June 2015
The prime minister’s proposal for a referendum calls the people to decide whether to accept the measures promulgated by the imperialist creditors or not, gives the opportunity to the Greek people to express his will and reject the detrimental measures.
The Movement for the Reorganisation of KKE (1918-55) invites the people to participate in the referendum and reject these measures. At the same time, the referendum amounts, most and foremost, to checking the imperialist intervention in the internal affairs of our country.
Finally, we remind that our Movement adopted a similar attitude in 2011 in relation to the then proposed referendum which was not held due to its dismissal by the imperialists, the local reactionary bourgeois circles and all the bourgeois parties displaying all of them a shameful subservient attitude towards the EU imperialists.
Movement for the Reorganisation of KKE (1918-55)
Article to be published in “Unity & Struggle” (Extended version of an interview given to the comrades of Iran)
1. Several dozens of glorious general strikes and constant struggles of the masses in Greece against the austerity policies of ND and PASOK that plunged Greece into poverty and unemployment expressed the anger of the people and demanded a change in Greek society. How do you see and interpret the victory of SYRIZA in the elections?
By voting for SYRIZA, the majority of the Greek people rejected and condemned the cruel economic measures that were imposed, the neoliberal economic policy, in general, and the great-bourgeois parties of ND and PASOK that implemented these measures with the outmost servility. The victory of SYRIZA is also explained by the people’s resentment towards the fascist re-modeling of social life promoted by the government of the fascist scoundrel Samaras.
2. Tsipras and some political forces characterize SYRIZA as “radical left” that is going to somehow liberate the people of Greece from the economic misery. What is the class nature of SYRIZA and what program has the government of Tsipras promised the people to implement?
The old revolutionary KKE, under the leadership of the then General Sceretary Nikos Zachariadis, was the only communist party from a capitalist not to have accepted Krushchevian revisionism. For this reason, it was eliminated by the brutal intervention of the soviet Krushchevian revisionists in 1955-1956 and replaced by the Greek Krushchevian revisionist party (“K”KE), a bourgeois, party of social-democratic type. More than 90% of the party members led by Nikos Zachariadis opposed and fiercely resisted Krushchevian revisionism and many tens of cadres were sent to exile in Siberia including Nikos Zachariadis himself who has murdered by the social-fascist clique of Brezhnev (CPSU) – Florakis (“K”KE) in August of 1973, in Sorgut, Siberia after of 17 years of exile.
In 1968, “K”KE was split into two parties: the euro-communist part known as “K”KE (interior) and the Krushchevian-Brezhnevite part known as “K”KE. SYRIZA originates from the first part and, consequently, is a social-democratic and reformist party guided by a right opportunist general line and characterized by petty bourgeois class features.
SYRIZA has pledged to implement a kind of neo-Keynesian economic program with the aim, at best, of relieving the burden of the consequences coming from the economic crisis of over-production and extreme neo-liberal economic policy without, however, touching the capitalist system and the imperialist dependence of Greece. Nevertheless, the implementation of this program has met negative reactions from the representatives of the imperialist organizations Commission – ECB – IMF that continue to interfere in the internal affairs of the country provocatively and without any pretext. This attitude amounts to the annulment of the recent elections in our country.
In the sphere of social questions, SYRIZA is an anti-fascist party suffering from inconsistencies and contradictions as it is evident from the fact that it formed an alliance with the bourgeois nationalist party of ANEL and the nomination of Prokopis Pavlopoulos for President of the Republic, a right-wing politician from Nea Demokratia who was responsible, as Minister of Public Order in the Karamanlis government, for the bloody police violence unleashed on the country’s school youth after the murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos in December of 2008.
3. Greece is a member of European Union, a member of NATO, and has implemented the neoliberal policies of the Western imperialist powers. Has Tsipras the willing and determination to eliminate political, economical, and military dependency on the Western imperialist powers and to cut the hands of EU-ECB-IMF from the lives of Greek people?
Tsipras and the leading group of SYRIZA is neither willing nor determined to eliminate Greece’s political, economical and military dependence on imperialism, that is the cause of certain problems for Greece in addition to the ones stemming from local capitalism. The only thing that he seems determined to do is to reduce the pressure coming from European Union and the European Central Bank regarding the implantation of extreme austerity programs that have deteriorated further the living conditions if the working class and deepened the process of absolute impoverishment. Today, the situation in our economically bankrupt country is disastrous; as a share of GDP, the national debt has increased from 118% (2009-2010) to 181.16% (January 2015). The production drops continuously, taxes and prices have increased, social spending has been slash, there is a massive unemployment of 2,000,000 people (the unemployment rate among young people is about 68-70%), and more than half of the population lives well below the poverty line.
The strategic position of SYRIZA is that Greece should be a member of the European Union and the Eurozone. This is also the position of the other parties present in today’s bourgeois parliament (ND, PASOK, ANEL, Potami, “K”KE) and it reflects the strategic choice of the Greek capital as it has been expressed by, among others, the president of the Union of Greek Industrialists in the following form (20/3/2012): “Europe or chaos”
4. Certainly, the victory of the people of Greece against the austerity measures of ND-PASOK governments is good news. How is the dialectical development of the situation after the elections? Will the conditions created by the Tsipras’ victory strengthen the class struggles of the Greek working masses?
During the first three weeks following the elections, the SYRIZA government has taken a series of actions in order to implement its program that has won the support of wide popular strata, an attitude that is unfortunately accompanied by certain illusions. At the same time, the government’s actions have met a very negative reception from Commission – ECB – IMF whose pressure and constant interference in the country’s internal affairs is condemned by the Greek people. We think that, up to a certain extent, SYRIZA’s victory creates favorable conditions for the strengthening of class struggles. Whether this possibility becomes a reality depends, of course on many factors the most important of which is the organization of the majority of the working masses in independent and united trade unions and the influence exerted on these and, the society in general, by the consistent left-wing, anti-imperialist and revolutionary communists.
5. The so-called the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) participated in the European elections. Despite all its phrase-mongering demand about Greece leaving the Eurozone, how different are the politics of this reformist party from those of SYRIZA?
It is important to clarify that, despite its verbal attacks against EU and the Eurozone, “K”KE does not put forward (not even for the sake of demagogy) the question of Greece’s immediate exit neither from the EU nor the Eurozone. In relation to Euro, the leadership of “K”KE has stated: “A solution outside the euro and return to the drachma in the present circumstances would be catastrophic” (30/5/2011), i.e. a position that is similar to the one expressed by the president of the Union of Greek Industrialists (20/3/2012) and mentioned above: “Europe or chaos”
This is also evident in the party’s program that was approved by its last congress).
Since some time now, “K”KE has expressed the view that “the term “national dependence” is not applicable in contemporary conditions” (1/2/2005). After the 19th Congress, it has openly adopted Trotskyite positions that mention “imperialist Greece”, “imperialist Second World War” etc and are evident in the “Program” approved in the last party Congress: “the capitalism in Greece is in the imperialist stage of development” (“K”KE Program, p. 12, Athens 2013). Concerning the character of the Second World War it is claimed that: “the problem was not only with KKE but the overall strategy of the international communist movement before and during the Second World War. In 1941, another negative point was added when the correct assessment of the war as imperialist – with respect to both sides of capitalist states – was replaced by the position that it was only anti-fascist” (“Rizospastis”, 21/12/2104).
Therefore, in essence, the policy of this reformist party is not different than that of SYRIZA as far the question of imperialist dependence and the continuous membership of the country in the imperialist EU is concerned. Both reformist parties (“K”KE-SYRIZA) have accepted the Greek capital’s present strategic choice to maintain the country in the EU and the Eurozone.
6. The crises in Greece demand a vast mobilization of the popular sectors of the society and the development of a revolutionary alternative to capitalism. Could you tell us about the tactics adopted by KKE (1918-55) in the present situation in order to strengthen the struggles of the working class and to deepen the revolutionary demands of the protesters on the streets?
In order to contribute to the growth of the working class struggles and the rise of the revolutionary movement, the Movement for Reorganization of KKE (1918-1955) is striving, under very unfavorable conditions, to achieve the following:
A) Together with the reorganization, re-birth of KKE (1918-1955) and the ideological-political-organizational unity of the Greek communists on basis of Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism and the dissemination of the Marxist conception of socialism-communism, it actively supports and participates in the struggle of the working class and all the toilers against the reduction of salaries and pensions, against the deterioration of their position in general and supports all demands that aim to defend their (economic, trade-union, social and political) class interests in opposition to the foreign and Greek capital and in particular, the EU monopolies which impose directly the current austerity measures.
B) The formation of united, massive and truly independent trade unions whose aim will be the resistance to the extreme neo-liberal policy of austerity and the further development of the workers’ and people’s struggles combined with the struggle against nationalism-racism-fascism-Nazism (all very dangerous enemies of the working class and the people) as well as “anti-germanism”-“anti-hellenism” (the two sides of the bourgeois nationalism) incited, during this period, by the nationalist circles of the two countries. At the same time, these new trade unions will put forward the demand for the exit of the country from the imperialist EU not only because of the increasing dependence and the deterioration of the Greece-EU relations at the expense of our country but also because of the fact that the economic policy and the hard, anti-popular measures are directly imposed by Brussels.
C) The cooperation between the consistent left-wing, anti-imperialist and anti-fascist forces that will aim at the formation of a massive, anti-fascist, popular, front that will fight against the dependence on imperialism, in general, and the exit of Greece from the EU, the Eurozone and NATO.
New poll presented today (19 March 2015) on Greek TV channel “Alpha” shows that 32.5% of the Greeks have would prefer Drachma instead of Euro in case of a Referandum.
Heavy-crushing defeat of monarch-fascist New Democracy
VICTORY of the anti-fascist reformist SYRIZA
NO to the laminated provocative intervention in the internal affairs of the country and the pressures of the representatives of the imperialist EUROPEAN UNION
K. Natsikas (member of the PC of Anasintaxi), S. Zachariadis, T. Mpallos, et al.
Alexis Parnis (poet and close friend of N. Zachariadis) and Tassos Mpallos
Sifis (Josef) Zachariadis under his father’s portrait
GREECE OUT OF EURO - EU RIGHT NOW
The elections do not solve the problem of imperialist DEPENDANCE (economic-political-military, NATO bases etc.), nor repel-cancel ongoing EU politics against the people
BOYCOTT THE ELECTIONS
Effective ONLY WAY: All-worker’s UNITY and intensity of the class struggle against the EU and its local chapter - Militant MASSIVE demonstrations
In the last 6 years with the open and complete collapse of the economy all known myths of "equal participation in the EU", "the country's economic development", "convergence of the economies of EU member-countries", "continuous growth of prosperity ", etc., etc. collapsed completely.
Today the status of the country, the working class and the people is very bad, worse than ever:
1. Extreme deepening of imperialist DEPENDENCE whilst stifling international financial control and strict supervision for decades by European Commission-ECB-IMF,
2. indebtedness of the country with a huge external ever-growing debt which is a loop neck of the country and younger generations,
3. deep protracted economic cyclical crisis of overproduction, dropping production, mass closure of businesses, falling exports, etc., etc.,
4. large and rapid increase of mass unemployment, the actual amount of around 2,000,000 and for young people reaches a percentage of 65-70%, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to migrate permanently creating an unprecedented haemorrhage,
5. beyond the intensive exploitation and annihilation of all the conquests of the workers, there were: a large reduction of salaries and pensions, unprecedented cuts in social spending (health, education, etc.) And huge increases in taxes and prices, etc., which led to a great sharp deterioration of the situation of the working class and the people and lasting deepening of the process of absolute misery of the proletariat,
6. restrictions on democratic freedoms, deepening fascistation and dangerous rise of fascist and Nazi-fascist forces ("Golden Dawn" -LAOS etc.).
Despite the above and although, both basic and key issues of the struggle of the working class and the country which are directly and closely tied with the EU: that of DEPENDENCE and the attacks-measures against the people, have extreme worsen: ie.
first, with the constant deepening of DEPENDANCE has major negative impacts on the country, but also the continuous provocative interference in its internal affairs on all levels, even in the current election campaign, (see statements by Juncker, Moscovici, Schaeuble, et al. )
second, with durable continuous unpopular measures, not imposed only by the local capital but also directly from the EU,
NONE of the political parties, bourgeois and reformist, is not in favor of Greece’s immediate exit of Euro-EMU-European Union
In contrary ALL the bourgeois parties are in favor of Greece’s STAY in imperialist European Union, and in EURO-EMU and propagate consciously, serve the interests of the EU imperialists with misleading MYTH-fantasies about "equal participation" (!) of the country in the "pit of lions" of the powerful European monopolies. At the same time the propagate that Greece leaving the Euro-EMU-EU will be a "major disaster" (!).
ALL the reformist social democratic parties ("K" KE-SYRIZA, etc.) and the extra-parliamentary organizations follow the same strategic choice of the EU monopolies and the local capital.
It is not only SYRIZA which supports the country STAY EURO-EMU-EU, but also the "K" KE: “A solution outside the euro and return to the drachma in the present circumstances would be catastrophic” (A. Papariga, “Rizospastis” 31/5/2011, p.6)
Moreover: the leaders of the "K" KE definitively renounced the anti-imperialist struggle for the overthrow of deppendance.
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In order the working class and the workers to defend their class interests against the attacks of the local and foreign capital (EU, etc.) they have to fight against capital and local governments but also EU in conjunction with the struggle against imperialist DEPENDENCE generally, particularly that of the EU and for the here and now, EXIT of Greece from Euro-EMU-EU.
Alongside they have to fight against nationalism and fascism
The ONLY EFFECTIVE WAY is the unity of all workers and intensity of the class struggle against the EU and the local capitali with MASSIVE militant protests.
GREECE OUT OF EURO - EU RIGHT NOW
The elections do not solve the problem of imperialist DEPENDANCE (economic-political-military, NATO bases etc.), nor repel-cancel ongoing EU politics against the people
BOYCOTT THE ELECTIONS
Effective UNIQUE WAY: All-worker’s UNITY and intensity of the class struggle against the EU and its local chapter - Militant MASS demonstrations
Movement for the REORGANITATION of KKE 1918-55
The poster above says:
BOYCOTT THE EUROELECTIONS
GREECE OUT OF THE IMPERIALIST EU RIGHT NOW
Not recognise and deny to pay any debt
Movement for the REORGANITATION of KKE 1918-55
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Greece's two main unions GSEE (the General Confederation of Greek Workers) - ADEDY (the Civil Servants' Confederation) have called a 24-hour general strike November 6 to protest government plans to pass new austerity measures.
The Movement for the Reorganisation of the KKE 1918-55 supports the strike and has released posters, flyers, etc. to support the struggle.
Greece's main public sector trade union, ADEDY, launched a call Friday for a two-day strike in protest against job lay-offs included in an economic overhaul demanded by the country's creditors.
ADEDY, in a statement, criticised the government's "submission" to proposals from the European Union and International Monetary Fund that would "destroy the public sector and the welfare state".
The strike action was called for September 24 and 25.
The Movement for the Reorganisation of the KKE 1918-55 supports the strike and has released posters, flyers, etc. to support the struggle.
New poll presented on Greek TV channel “SKAI” shows that 47% of the Greeks have negative opinion on EU/Euro (September 2013) compared to 31% last year.
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