To the striking workers
To the working class and all Peoples who are fighting
Colleagues, we are with you!
PAME, the class-oriented workers´ movement of Greece, which has organised and carried through more than 20 general strikes in the last few months, salutes the striking workers of England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland. We send out our class solidarity to your strike on the 30th of November.
Colleagues,
The assault on your pensions and rights is not an exceptional case. Just like the policies against the workers implemented in Greece are not to cover the deficit and the national debt, and the cuts in wages and pensions, the thousands of dismissals and the abolition of workers´ rights being driven through across Europe do not have as an aim the peoples´ prosperity. The capitalist crisis, the debt, were not created by the workers, nor is the result of “maladministration” but by the accumulated profits of big capital.
Across Europe, across the capitalist world, government-big capital-EU-IMF-ECB-sold-out trade union leaderships, with the pretext of the crisis, demand from the workers to sacrifice their rights and wages to secure the capitalists´ profits. The capitalist way of development, the capitalist system of exploitation is rotten and outdated, and only the overthrow of capitalist barbarity is the way out for the working class and the other impoverished social strata.
NO SACRIFICES – LET THE CAPITALISTS PAY FOR THE CRISIS
This aim serve in common Social-democratic and Liberal Parties and their governments, their grand coalitions and also their variations: the centre-left and centre-right governments. In Greece, in order to bend the will of the people who fight, they set their differences aside and all together, social-democrats, liberals and nationalists concocted a coalition government with the support of the EU and the IMF to crush the Greek people. In accordance in Britain, the Labour Party when they were in power, were implementing the same policies that the Conservatives continue today, while the trade unions of compromise like UNISON, facing the assault against the workers, call on mobilisations without prospects of escalation, they do not prepare the workers for a hard and long-term struggle. On the contrary, they nourish the view that the assault will cease if Labour come back to power. These forces, these rationales must be isolated from the workers.
THE WORKERS PRODUCE ALL WEALTH
THEY ARE THE ONES WHO MUST REAP IT.
The public service workers in Greece are fighting against the status of dismissals through the so-called “work reserve” which the government drives forward, and on the private sector, the workers must fight for permanent and full-time work with full rights: a 7-hour day, a 5-day 35-hour week, with a ban on dismissals, with an exclusively public and free Health Service and Education without any private business inteference and protection for the unemployed.
This struggle passes through the organising of the workers en-masse, in fighting, class-oriented, trade unions. Trade unions which won´t be negotiating how much the workers will lose on the tables of social discourse, but will be demanding the satisfaction of their current needs by organising the workers´ struggle in the workplace in conflict with management and their terrorism. In this struggle, the leaderships of UNISON-ETUC etc have no place.
In this direction, PAME, the working class of Greece move on to a new general strike, the 22nd since December 2009, of all workers on the public and the private sectors together, on Thursday the 1st of December.
Our struggle is your struggle.
We express the solidarity of the workers of Greece of the class-oriented movement to the workers of Hellenic Steelworks who continue their great striking struggle for a whole month non-stop.
We are strengthening our struggle aiming disengaging from the EU with power to the workers and unilateral write-off of the national debt.
THE WORKERS OF EUROPE DO NOT SURRENDER
THEY ORGANISE-FIGHT BACK!
LET΄S SUPPORT TOGETHER THE COMMON ACTIONS OF PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS EVERYWHERE IN EUROPE, ON FEBRUARY THE 3RD, ORGANISED BY THE TUI-PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE WFTU
