PAME salutes the thousands of workers, unemployed, pensioners, young workers and students, the women, the self employed and small farmers who took part massively at the demonstrations of PAME on July 15th, all over Greece. The demonstrations send a message of struggle, not disappointment, of demand not defeatism, against the new brutal measures of the 3rd Memorandum of the SYRIZA Government.
We denounce to all workers, the upgraded provocation plan of the Government of SYRIZA, to use the oppression forces of the riot police, alongside with parastate mechanisms during the enormous demonstration of PAME in Athens, on July 15th. A plan that aimed to break the demonstration of PAME, to intimidate the workers and the popular strata.
The same moment that inside the Greek Parliament we watched the formation of a new alliance among the bourgeois political parties between the socialdemocratic SYRIZA, the liberal ND, the far right ANEL and the social democratic PASOK and POTAMI, at the same time, outside the parliament we witnessed dark mechanisms attacking the people. There is no doubt that the imposition of such brutal, anti workers’ policies, demands the escalation of state and employers’ oppression. The oppression action of July 15th is not an isolated incident. It is part of the prerequisites of the new anti peoples’ agreement for the attack against the workers-people’s movement. It means direct intervention within the trade union organizations and their demands. It’s being prepared and it’s escalating authoritarianism with new measures to prohibit and contain the trade union action. They prepare a new trade union legislation to block the rise of class struggle.
We call the trade union organizations to be on high alert to cancel these plans. We respond to the big capital, the Government of SYRIZA and its mechanisms, with organization and strengthening of class struggle. We reject any wage or pension cuts, any abolishment of workers’ rights. We raise demands based on the contemporary needs of the working class.
We continue and strengthen our struggle against the war they declared upon us!
