MARXILAINEN TYÖVÄENLIITTO

As the Greek Parliament is ready to vote for the IMF/EU imposed program of draconian measures to save capitalism in its bankruptcy, the Greek working class and popular masses are mobilized to fight back. The General Strike of May the 5^th was a great success- and just a beginning.

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A new stage of the class struggle

Despite the divisions within the workers’ movement in Greece (in Athens 5 different rallies and marches were called by different trade unions, left organizations and the anarchists…) tens of thousands turn to the streets in Mayday 2010 in a powerful demonstration of popular anger for the IMF/EU/ PASOK government’s draconian measures of austerity( in the picture, from the demonstration in Athens, a part of the contingent of EEK; the second banner writes “Out with the IMF, the EU and the government of their lackeys- All the power to the workers!” ; the banner in front says “ Forward for the world socialist revolution!”). In Syntagma Square, in front of the Parliament, in front of the Athens University, and in Omonia square, the riot police attacked with chemical gas the demonstrators, particularly, from the contingents of class struggle trade unions, extra-parliamentary left( including EEK) and anarchists. Dozens of young people were arrested and savagely beaten. Popular anger was targeting bourgeois politicians and parliamentarians as during the revolt in Argentina in December 2001. The former Chairman of the Greek parliament Apostolos Kaklamanis (PASOK) was recognized by the crowd during the Athens Mayday demonstration, and he had to hide himself in the toilets of a coffee shop near by, and to remain there for some time until the riot police comes to “liberate” him from the people who were shouting “Liars! Thieves! Go home!”.

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Traumatic memories of History never die.

On April 23, 1941, the Greek government of Tsolakoglou had surrendered the country to the German Occupation Army and transformed itself into the first “government” of Nazi collaborators.

On April 23, 2010, the Greek government of Papandreou officially activated the so-called “rescue mechanism” for a bailout to avoid an official default, agreed with the European Union dominated by Germany, surrendering the country to the grips of the EU Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF.

Many Greeks, including the Press, particularly of the Left, draw the parallel between the two surrenders.

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