ALL TOGETHER IN THE STRUGGLE –
ALL TOGETHER IN THE STRIKE ON OCTOBER 18
THEY CRUSH OUR LIFE. THEY ENCHAIN US
ALL TOGETHER IN THE DEMONSTRATION OF PAME AT OMONOIA Sq.
AT 10.30 a.m.
You must believe in your strength, turn everything upside-down!
You produce all the wealth, it must return to you!
Enough is enough! The government, capital and the E.U. abolish the minimum wage; they demolish the collective agreements and whatever has been left from labour relations and social security – pension rights, the social benefits and the unemployment benefits. They try to release the working-hours, to abolish the Sunday as a day off, to enslave and enchain workers and to transform the workplaces into modern galleys.
All the workplaces must be emptied!
All the machines must stop, the shops must close and the whole country must freeze.
All streets in every city must be full of protesting people!
Workers in every factory, every enterprise, every office, every school and every shop must participate in the strike.
We must not accept the modern slavery!
Through the legislation of the minimum wage, the institution of the collective bargaining and the collective agreements is abolished in essence. Through the abolition of the National General Collective Agreement all the workers are hit and not only those who take the minimum salary and day-wage. All the financial and institutional measures contained in the institution of Collective Agreements, e.g. the benefits from the years of work, the allowances, the leave etc. are abolished. They reduce once more the compensation in case of dismissals. They increase the maximum number of working days to 6 per week for all sectors. They define the minimum daily rest to 11 hours, thus 13 hours work per day without overtime being paid.
Working women and men, unemployed people, young women and men,
You must not bend to your knees! You must not remain uninvolved in the struggles that take place. You must not be fooled by the exploiters and their gang. You must not throw away your hopes to forces that face you as an electoral client for the next elections.
You have the power! You must gain courage! You must enter the struggle more decisively.
No gear turns without you! You produce all the wealth.
In the organization of the counterattack of our class you must join us, even if you have never gone on strike till now. You must also contribute so that this strike mobilization will give a response, to shake them. We must not accept to work for 13 hours per day without rights, for 400 euros. We must not accept unemployment as a natural phenomenon.
No more sacrifices for the salvation of the capitalists and the profits of the lenders.
THE PEOPLE DO NOT OWE TO ANYONE – THEY OWE TO THE PEOPLE
No worker must be carried away be the acuteness of the rivalries. Merkel’s visit took place in order to promote and support the interests of German capitalists, but also the interests of the whole capital in the E.U. and in Greece in relation to the other imperialist centers. They are all united against the working class because they know that they become richer by the exploitation, the sweat and the blood of workers.
NO SACRIFICE to save the profits of the monopolies.
No one must be fooled! These measures have nothing to do with the debt and deficits, nor are they for the good of our country. The debt was not created because of the prosperity of the people. The deficit in the public funds and in the pockets of peoples’ households is on the other side; it is caused by the huge profits of the industrialists, ship-owners, of the big employers and the monopolistic groups.
There is no national interest, national targets and national sacrifices. Greece as a country is one, but we do not have all the same interests! The new brutal measures, as the previous ones, are not bad for everyone. Monopolies, industrialists and the big employers have been seeking them for many years and they are the ones who have great benefit through the measures that degrade us. They brought memorandums and the loan agreements to support their profitability. The government and its allies in the European Union serve them. These predators are not the homeland. We, who create all the wealth, are the homeland and not the handful of parasites who steal this wealth.
BLOCKADE TO THE MEASURES
DOWN WITH THE MEMORANDUMS AND THE MEASURES THAT IMPOVERISH PEOPLE
The employers’ demands indicate what the development they speak about means. They want us to work with wages of hunger, from sunrise till sunset, without any right, so that they can fill their vaults in Switzerland with our sweat. That is the kind of development they want, with the workers being impoverished and enchained, while unemployment will be sky-rocket high, to threaten and blackmail with dismissals those that are degraded.
NO TO THE ABOLITION OF THE MINIMUM SALARY AND DAY-WAGE
We demand the abolition of the loan agreements and memorandums, the exit of our country from the “wolf-alliance” of the European Union and the cancellation of the debt.
We struggle for a development that will not have profit as a criterion, but our needs for full-time and stable jobs for all, with decent wages, pensions, leisure time, free education for our children, ensured free health care for our families and security for the future. Development and production in benefit of the people and not of the monopolistic groups.
They are not omnipotent, they are not powerful.
We are more; we are the majority that suffers.
We have the power to impose our right!
We must organize the success of the strike in a planned way, through our everyday action and discussion within the factories and workplaces, in the trade unions, general meetings and neighbourhoods. The majorities of GSEE and ADEDY (the governmental and employers’ trade unionism in private and public sector), in Federations and Regional Trade Union Centers neither want, nor can serve this struggle. They are at the other side. They are an organized bureaucracy with close links with the employers and the state. A line of struggle is needed; the one which will conflict with the governmental and employers’ trade unionism that always drags the workers to the tables of social dialogue. The trade unions must be strengthened and become castles of resistance against every employer and their class. The correlation within the trade union movement must change.
No tolerance, no delay. The people must respond in a fighting, militant way to counterattack the blackmails, to overcome terrorism. A militant response must be given everywhere, in every factory and workplace, in every sector, in every popular neighbourhood. We must prevent the adoption and implementation of the new brutal measures.
ALL TOGETHER IN THE STRIKE ON OCTOBER 18
We have the power and we can abolish laws and bosses.
ALL TOGETHER IN THE DEMONSTRATION OF PAME AT OMONOIA Sq.
AT 10.30 a.m.
