Working men and women, pensioners, poor farmers, self-employed, young women and men,
The government, the capital and the E.U. attack again against our wages and pensions, our social security rights, they proceed to new cuts in state spending on medicines, health, education and more. They impose new hard taxes; they exterminate us with the suspensions – dismissals, they threaten us with the confiscations and the auctions even of our primary residence.
Their aim, if we will not stop them, if we will not overthrow them, is to make the labor force even cheaper and to increase the profits of the monopolistic groups.
ALL TOGETHER IN THE
ALL WORKERS DEMONSTRATION
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 2013
ARISTOTELOUS SQUARE, 6.00 p.m.
IN THESSALONIKI
This attack concerns every worker, self-employed, poor farmer.
It is a huge lie that new antipopular measures will not come. These measures are neither fragmentary nor the last ones.
All those who argue that through the renegotiation of the debt as a solution in favor of the people will be given, deceive us.
They seek to ensure the popular consent in order to gather and give money to the big capital so that they will continue and increase their profiteering.
The dilemma “new loan or a new haircut of the Greek debt” that is preserved by the government, SYRIZA and the other parties, together with the E.U. and the IMF is spurious and disorientate the people. Any choice or compromise for the rescue of the capitalist economy, people will be forced to pay very expensive through new antipopular measures.
No more spurious hopes for the development that comes. This development even when if it comes, it will keep us again in a state of poverty.
As long as the economy is designed to serve the profits and not the satisfaction of the popular needs, people will not have progress; either the government will be central-right, or central-left.
You have gained experience NOW. NOW you can not believe:
THAT business profits secure jobs or that if you will not complain, you will be saved. This is evidenced by the 1.5 million unemployed who have paid these profits with their unemployment. Profits and massacre of the workers go together. Profits and popular prosperity are incompatible.
THAT we will return some time in the future in the situation before the crisis. Things will continuously get worse.
THAT out from the European Union would be worse. For the sake of the E.U. and of the monopolies you lose your job, wage, pension, health, education, even your home.
THAT the investments which are coming will solve your problem. These investments are set up on starvation wages and will employ very few people. TRUTHFULLY, what kind of private investments can employ 1.5 million unemployed?
YOU MUST NOT TOLERATE THE LESS EVIL BECAUSE YOU ARE ALSO PREPARING FOR THE WORST.
YOU MUST NOT REDUCE YOUR DEMANDS. THIS DOWNHILL WILL NOT HAVE AN END.
NO MORE ILLUSIONS – NO MORE TOLERANCE – NO MORE SUBMISSION
Dear colleagues,
The more we bend to our knees, the more they will trample our rights. The capital will continuously ask for more by the workers. Whatever sacrifices we may do, the capitalist crisis deepens in our country, in Europe and internationally.
Working class has the right on its side and has also the power to impose it. It can, together with the other popular strata, lead Greece on the path of progress and prosperity for all the people.
This perspective, however, requires strong organization in the workplaces, in the sectors, strong Popular Alliance of the working class with the self-employed of the city and the village, the young men and women.
It requires the isolation of the old and new employers’ trade union leaders, who compete with each other in tricks and immoral methods on how they will subjugate the labor movement and its struggles in the rotation of the governments and not in the overthrow of the antilabor policy. They are afraid of the dynamic of the class-oriented struggle.
Effective struggle means conflict with the employers, means first of all conflict with the capitalist employers in the basic sectors, means conflict and rupture with the E.U. That is what they don’t want. That is what they are afraid of.
Effective struggle means denouncement of the racist – Nazi conceptions of the “Golden Down”.
The unity of the working class must be strengthened
We do not need a unity that seeks the cooperation with the employers, which will propagandize the competitiveness, the capitalist development, which will lead working class to “social dialogue”, which will lead us to the logic of feasible, of realistic, of acceptance that changing the crisis manager can lead us to the way out from the dead ends.
We need a unity which will rally the working class against the capitalist employers, the laws and their state.
A unity that will help the workers to throw away the governmental and employers’ trade unionism.
A unity that will orientate to the alliance with the other poor popular strata.
A unity that will target not only the struggle for individual improvements, but also for the satisfaction of all the contemporary needs of the working family, for the overthrow and the abolition of the exploitative relations.
With solidarity and support, we give our hand to anyone who wants to get up. We make practice the slogan:
NOBODY WILL FIND HIMSELF BEING ALONE, ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE.
A way out from crisis in favor of the people means destruction of the cause which gives birth to the crisis. It means socialization of the monopolies, disengagement from the E.U. and the other imperialist organizations and unilateral cancellation of the debt with popular authority.
People must not have illusions and expectations.
There is a solution:
Uncompromised struggle to overthrow the antipopular policy
NOW EVERYBODY IN THE COUNTERATTACK
ORGANIZATION OF ALL THE WORKERS WITHIN THE TRADE UNIONS. WITH COLLECTIVE FUNCTION AND ACTION.
CHANGE OF THE CORRELATIONS – STRENGTHENING OF PAME IN EVERY WORKPLACE, EVERY TRADE UNION.
ORGANIZATION – PLANNING – COORDINATION – DECISIVENESS IN THE STRUGGLE.
The conflict starts from the place of work against the employers.
UNITY OF THE WORKING CLASS, in the workplace, the sector, the region, the society.
The separation of workers into private and public sector must not pass.
COMMON STRUGGLE FOR OUR OWN INTERESTS AND NOT FOR THE CAPITAL’S.
POPULAR ALLIANCE OF
WORKERS, UNEMPLOYED, PENSIONERS, SELF-EMPLOYED, FARMERS, WOMEN, YOUTH
TOGETHER WITH PAME – PASEVE – PASY – OGE – MAS
POPULAR ALLIANCE IN EVERY SECTOR, IN EVERY NEIGHBOURHOOD WITH POPULAR COMMITTEES.
NO TO THE DISMISSALS AND THE REDUCTIONS OF WAGES AND RIGHTS.
NO TO THE CLOSURE OF HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS.
NO TO THE PRIVATIZATIONS.
DOWN WITH THE TAXES AND THE HEAD-FINES
WE MUST CUT THE HAND TO WHOEVER WILL DARE TO CONFISCATE OR MAKE AUCTION TO THE HOUSE OF AN UNEMPLOYED, POOR WORKER OR SELF-EMPLOYED FOR DEBTS IN BANKS.
September 2013
