Demonstration on Sunday, August 24, 20:00, at Syntagma Square, Athens
Solidarity with the heroic people of Palestine
End the genocide now — Freedom for Palestine
PAME and hundreds of trade unions, Federations, and Labour Centers across the country continue the militant struggle to end the genocide of the Palestinian people. We stand with all those who today, despite arrests, prosecutions, and brutal repression, resist in the heart of the beast, inside the murderous state of Israel, against the genocide of the Palestinian people.
The death toll has exceeded 60000, the vast majority children. The number of children and civilians dying from hunger is rising daily. Now our anger must turn into a force of struggle to express humanity. Now the fight against imperialist war and against our country’s participation in it must be strengthened.
The recent decision of Israel’s Cabinet for the complete occupation of Gaza shatters any claim about the “right to self-defense” while the occupation, displacement, and extermination of the Palestinian people continues.
The slaughter of the Palestinian people, the death traps at “food” distribution centers, serve the plans of the USA, NATO, and the EU for the so-called “New Middle East”. They sacrifice in absolute barbarity thousands of women and children for the new division of spoils; the natural and mineral wealth, the trade routes, and control of the region. It is outrageous that imperialist states like France, Britain, Germany, and others, present themselves as “humanitarians” while, together with the USA, they have waged this war alongside Israel, supplying it for the past two years with every kind of means and weaponry. There is no longer any doubt that the murderous state is doing the dirty work for all these powers’ interests in the region.
The New Democracy government bears great responsibility for supporting the murderous state and its war plans. Together with the Israeli embassy, they try to whitewash the crimes, hide the real purpose of this war and genocide, and suppress every reaction and expression of solidarity with the Palestinian people in the name of “anti-Semitism.” They are disturbed by the mass expression of solidarity with the Palestinian people, by the content of demonstrations, and by the demands put forward in every possible way by trade unions and mass organizations across the country.
The parties that support the “strategic alliance with Israel,” NATO, and the policies of the USA–EU, that support and vote for war-preparation budgets, have blood on their hands and must be condemned.
At this moment no one can remain silent. Everyone must choose a side. Workers must condemn those forces within the Greek Confederation of Workers (GSEE) and the Confederation of Civil Servants (ADEDY) that adopt the “ridiculous” arguments of governments and the murderous state. They both have worked for two years now to prevent the escalation of the struggle against the imperialist war and the genocide in Palestine.
History has a just side — with Palestine until Freedom!
Now is the time for the largest mobilization. We call on all workers, all unions, Federations, Labour Centers to rise up en masse in struggle. We shall put all our strength into ending this crime!
We demand:
- End now all operations for the occupation of the Gaza Strip.
- Open now all crossings for essential humanitarian aid to pass.
- Recognition of the Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with UN resolutions.
- No economic, political, military cooperation with or support to the murderous state of Israel.
- Freedom for Palestine.
