ΠΑΝΕΡΓΑΤΙΚΟ ΑΓΩΝΙΣΤΙΚΟ ΜΕΤΩΠΟΗ επίσημη ιστοσελίδα του Πανεργατικού Αγωνιστικού Μετώπου

The position of the class trade union movement of Greece at the Referendum

Dear comrades,

We forward to you 13 of the measures of the two drafts of anti workers-anti people’s measures, prepared by the European Union-IMF-ECB the one, and the other prepared by the Greek Government of SYRIZA. In the referendum of July 5, the Greek Government calls the people to reject ONLY the Memorandum of the EU-IMF-ECB. This way, the Government of SYRIZA wants to promote its own anti workers’ proposal, to be accepted by the people as an alternative.

The class trade union movement of Greece, PAME, rejects both options

We call the working class to demand its own rights

We do not reject ONLY the one memorandum, so as to accept another

We call the workers to put in the ballot their own demands

And not the marked cards of the SYRIZA Government

Compare the two proposals

The EU-IMF-ECB Memorandum:

1. Retirement age raised at 67 for all workers, imposed by 2022

2. Raising pensioners’ contributions for healthcare (which will be taken from their pensions) from 4% to 6%

3. Raising employees’ contributions for healthcare (which will be taken from their wages) from 4% to 5% *THE SAME POSITION

4. Cuts in the State Budget for Pensions: 0.5% of the GDP for 2015, 1% of the GDP for 2016 *THE SAME POSITION

5. Early retirement “fine” raised by 10% *THE SAME POSITION

6. Reduce of “Labour cost” in Public Sector since 1/1/2016 *THE SAME POSITION

7. Continue the imposition of the so called “Solidarity Tax” *THE SAME POSITION

8. Minimum Wage to be formed through Memorandum legislation *THE SAME POSITION

9. Continue collecting the “Unified Estate Tax”-ENFIA till 2016 *THE SAME POSITION

10. Raise the incomes through VAT at 1% of the GDP

11. VAT raised at 23% for canned and packed foods, 13% for basic Foods, electricity and Hotels, 6% for Medicines, Books, 23% for everything else *THE SAME POSITION

12. Taxation to Shipowners to be imposed

13. Privatizations of Ports, Airports, infrastructure, Stare Properties *THE SAME POSITION

The SYRIZA Memorandum

1. Retirement age raised at 67 for all workers, imposed by 2025

2. Raising pensioners contributions for healthcare (which will be taken from their pensions) from 4% to 5%

3. Raising employees’ contributions for healthcare (which will be taken from their wages) from 4% to 5% *THE SAME POSITION

4. Cuts in the State Budget for Pensions: 0.5% of the GDP for 2015, 1% of the GDP for 2016 *THE SAME POSITION

5. Early retirement “fine” raised by 10% *THE SAME POSITION

6. Reduce of “Labour cost” in Public Sector since 1/1/2016 *THE SAME POSITION

7. Continue the imposition of the so called “Solidarity Tax” *THE SAME POSITION

8. Minimum Wage to be formed through Memorandum legislation *THE SAME POSITION

9. Continue collecting the “Unified Estate Tax”-ENFIA till 2016 *THE SAME POSITION

10. Raise the incomes through VAT at 0.93% of the GDP

11. VAT raised at 23% for canned and packed foods, 13% for basic Foods, electricity and Hotels, 6% for Medicines, Books, 23% for everything else *THE SAME POSITION

12. Taxation to Shipowners NOT to be imposed

13. Privatizations of Ports, Airports, infrastructure, Stare Properties *THE SAME POSITION

  NO to the Referendum will be translated to YES for the SYRIZA Memorandum

We reject both options

The working class must raise its own demands

We vote with our own demands

Not with the “marked cards” of the pro-EU political forces

To the Trade Unions, Federations, Labour Centres, Industrial Trade Unions.

To the Working Class, the Working People, the Unemployed, Pensioners, Youth!

 Colleagues,

We raise our heads against the blackmails and terrorism, which are underway and will intensify in the coming days, before the referendum on Sunday! Fear and fatalism are not for us!

 Enough blood we have shed! Enough we have paid!

We do not accept new anti popular measures, new memoranda,

New sufferings and new burdens

No matter how they present them, how they name them.

 The monopolies, the European Union and the Greek Government, their people, their mechanisms, the political parties that support the EU as one way, started bombarding with a “fear campaign” so as to kneel the working class and the people, to accept new, additional, heavy sacrifices.

With raw blackmail, they want our people to choose ourselves the imposition of a new memorandum that will tie us hand and foot. a new memorandum, which will convict us to lasting poverty and misery, so to have recovery of profits.

 We will not become accomplices in their anti-workers’, anti-people’s policy!

 Our position must find expression in a great, workers’, people, fighting movement, which will lead at the voting stations on Sunday in various ways. A fighting movement against the memoranda and the EU that is imposing them, on behalf of our exploiters.

 We do not step back! No retreat!

We demand the abolition of the memoranda and the implementing laws that make our lives hell

No new sacrifices for the plutocracy!

The future of our children is beyond the shackles of the EU,

the bankers, the industrialists and the shipowners!

Rupture with the EU and the path of the monopolies!

 Workers forward! Destroy memoranda and bosses!

All workers, rallying with their trade unions and with the forces of PAME, the pensioners in their unions, the women in women’s associations, the unemployed, the youth in their organizations, along with the people’s committees in neighbourhoods, we organize, we strengthen the working people’s solidarity! We leave none alone!

 We demand and we fight for:

• Ensure payment in their entirety, the wages of the workers, the unemployment allowance for the unemployed, the pensions. Right Here and Right Now!

• Fully ensure the provision of healthcare and medicines, free of charge to the people with the government’s responsibility!

• Expansion and generalization for all public transportation the measure of free transport. Abolition of tolls.

• No lay offs or compulsory unpaid leave for workers on the pretext of the closure of banks.

• Freeze doses for taxes, mortgage and loans.

• Freezing of payments for electricity, water, telephone. No interruption of connections.

We call for fighting alert to protect our rights, to support the workers and the people.