You have tried them… Now the solution is to be found on the path to
overthrow the system, joining forces with the KKE
Workers, employees,
unemployed people, farmers, professionals, tradesmen, self-employed
scientists, pensioners, young men and women, women from the families of
the popular strata, you who are being burdened with the new unbearable
measures of the third memorandum of SYRIZA-ANEL, which are being added
to those of the previous ND-PASOK governments that are still in force.
We address ourselves to all those of you
who in recent years placed your trust in various governments to manage
the system, both single-party and coalition governments, “centre-right”,
“centre-left” and “leftwing” governments, and you saw one memorandum
follow the other. In these elections, do not give the right to the
parties that signed up to cuts in salaries and pensions, negative
changes in labour relations, heavy taxes, the reduction of health and
welfare benefits and education provision, the bankrupting of the small
farmers and self-employed, to say that the people consented, voted to be
massacred and that the people agree about the inevitability of the
permanent memoranda. In any case, the governmental programmes of the
other parties, whatever differences they may have, contain the
three-year agreement-memorandum with the EU and the other memoranda
which will come in the future.
We address ourselves to leftwing radical
people, militants, people who are very active in the labour-people’s
movement, to those of you who believed in SYRIZA and today feel
betrayed. You have the opportunity to draw valuable conclusions, to join
with the KKE in the struggle, which will be carried out on a really
solid and radical basis this time around. The importance of the KKE’s
unwavering stance as regards its non-participation in the governments
that manage capitalism has been demonstrated in practice.
We address ourselves to those of you who
struggled against the memoranda in previous years, who believed that by
voting NO in the recent referendum you denounced them and today you see
SYRIZA bringing a third and even worse memorandum. This is the
SYRIZA-ANEL government’s great contribution to the industrialists, the
bankers, the ship owners, who have been demanding the implementation of
even tougher measures for years. From the very first moment, it
“dressed” its negotiations on behalf of capital, its compromise, with
left slogans and with the mantle of dignity. It utilized the various
trends and “platforms”, its allegedly democratic pluralism, fostered
illusions in every direction-to its “left” and to its “right”. It
transformed active militants into passive spectators in the face of
every impending electoral confrontation. It hijacked and appropriated
historic moments from the history of the labour-people’s movement of the
20th century, bright pages etched in the peoples’ memory, in
order to foster the illusions of an alleged left renewal, of left
continuity.
Workers, employees, unemployed, semi-employed, pensioners, farmers and self-employed people.
Stand tall, take your fate into your own hands, turn your backs on the false dilemmas and traps that are being set!
Don’t make the mistake again in these
elections of choosing another party that promises a way out of the
economic crisis, productive reconstruction, development and income
redistribution allegedly in favour of the people. In reality, they want
to govern on behalf of the big capitalists, the monopoly groups and
their power.
Enough is enough!
The KKE in particular addresses itself
to those of who perhaps occasionally chose to vote for the KKE in the
past, but then preferred a more immediate, as it seemed, political
solution.
Today we call on you to think and to make your electoral choice on the basis of your experience.
We call on you to take a combative
position and in these elections this can only mean a vote for the KKE,
the vote that will strengthen the people’s resistance against every
anti-people agreement and law, every single-party or multiparty
governmental coalition, against every imperialist alliance of states.
History as a whole has demonstrated that
the effectiveness of the struggles mainly depends on how strong the KKE
is in every sector.
Today you have more experience and more reasons to support and decisively strengthen the KKE
A strong KKE, because
it never tried to trick the people in order to win votes. It told the
truth, it warned in good time about the course of the developments, it
predicted the outcome of a SYRIZA government. It warned that SYRIZA’s
programme and the Thessalonica declarations determined the compromise,
the agreement with the EU and the new shameful memorandum. Its program
was inherently an anti-people one, dressed up with some left slogans.
You now have tangible and irrefutable evidence which demonstrates that
no government can follow a pro-people political line inside the
framework of the EU and the capitalist one-way street. Capitalism and
its international unions, such as the EU, can not have their character
changed by negotiations, referenda, allegedly left governments. Any
government that operates on the terrain of the capitalist economy is
obliged to observe its immutable anti-people laws, which make the people
bleed in order to reinforce the competitiveness, profitability and
investments of capital. All the other parties are deceiving the people
that change and a differentiation of its political line are gaining
ground in Europe. Discussions, plans, squabbles are under way, but these
have nothing to do with the people’s interests. They are worried about
the impasses of capitalism, they are arguing about how capital’s profits
and the losses in the member-states will be shared out amongst them.
A strong KKE, because
it says the truly genuine and unwavering NO to the memoranda and
anti-people measures and at the same time proposes a path of development
which is in the interests of and exclusively belongs to the people. It
fights against the real causes of the memoranda which are the strategy
of the EU and capital to overcome the capitalist economic crisis by
forming new avenues of profitability for capital with an even cheaper
labour force. The KKE was the only party that tabled a draft law in
parliament to abolish the memoranda and the application laws, which was
never brought for discussion or a vote in parliament, something for
which all the MPs of SYRIZA-including those that have now split from
SYRIZA- and the Speaker of the Parliament are responsible. It
consistently organizes the struggle for immediate relief measures for
the people, for solidarity, for the abolition of the
antiworker-antipeople laws, for the recovery of the losses, for the
satisfaction of the people’s needs today, in a course of rupture with
the EU, capital and its power.
A strong KKE, because
tomorrow it will be able to support the people even more decisively in
the confrontation against the “chorus of blackmailers” which is
comprised of all the other parties and is guided by the EU, Commission,
IMF and the country’s ruling class. The KKE will express the people’s
opposition to every government, whatever its composition. A strong KKE
will be in a better position to defend the workers’-people’s rights and
will play the leading role in the organization of the people’s struggle
so that the antimonopoly-anticapitalist activity of the labour movement
acquires a mass and dynamic character, so that the people’s alliance is
strengthened. The KKE devotes all its forces to the organization and
unity of the workers so that they can take control of their own future.
Today, think about the negative consequences for the people’s interests
which the electoral weakening of the KKE in the previous years had. A
strong KKE and movement can overthrow the “memoranda and the bosses”.
A strong KKE, because
the realism of the KKE is determined by the interests of the people and
workers and by the recognition that the people, when they are in the
frontline of the counterattack, can be victorious. Workers’-people’s
power is the only one that can be the foundation for the centrally and
scientifically planned social production and the social services –
education, health, welfare- on the basis of social ownership of the
concentrated means of production and workers’ control. On this basis it
can deliver popular prosperity, disengage from the EU, unilaterally
cancel the state debt in favour of the people, lead the country out of
NATO and out of the plans of the imperialists.
Reject the
fraudulent new dilemmas, the fraudulent anti-memorandum demarcation
line, the false rupture with the Eurozone that does not dispute
capitalist ownership and power
Those of you who transferred your votes
from ND and PASOK to SYRIZA, with the hope of abolishing the memoranda
and the anti-people application laws, must not be trapped again by the
promises about an allegedly better management of the new memorandum,
waiting for compensatory measures in favour of the people. Don’t support
and don’t rely on such a disastrous new illusion.
Remember what the KKE said from the
first moment that SYRIZA became the official opposition: that the SYRIZA
government in the end will serve the EU, NATO and big capital. And now
no votes from the popular strata must return to ND, PASOK, or be trapped
by POTAMI or SYRIZA mark 2, the newly founded “Popular Unity” that
emerged after the split in SYRIZA.
The squabble around the distinction
between memorandum and anti-memorandum forces has been revealed not only
to be superficial, but also false and therefore damaging to the
people’s movement.
The key to the economic policy and
overall political line of a party and what social forces it represents
is the position it takes on the issue of the concentrated means of
production and the country’s natural resources. This is the real
demarcation line and not the currency. Today, everyone talks about
“development of production” and “redistribution” not only parties
labeled as being “left” but also “right” parties, the bourgeois liberal
ones and the Nazi Golden Dawn party.
The main issue for the parties of the
memoranda, the EU and capital is this: Who, which government, with which
composition and alliances will implement the new memorandum and the
anti-people application laws. Reject the confrontation between them that
aims to entrap the people inside the anti-people framework.
- SYRIZA is once again shamelessly attempting to trick the people, saying that it will “overcome” the memoranda, while at the same time implementing and prolonging them. It claims that if it is in the government it will blunt the negative consequences of the memorandum and take compensatory “people-friendly” measures for growth and the reduction of the debt. It conceals the fact the continuous attacks against the people are basic prerequisites for any capitalist recovery and decision about the debt, which will be paid for in its entirety by the working class-popular families in its entirety. The development packages and the adjustment of the debt will be directed towards supporting big capital and will once again be paid for by the people, just as the previous ones were. SYRIZA has fully adopted the propaganda about “inevitable choices”, which in previous years had been repeatedly used against the people by ND and PASOK. On the one hand SYRIZA absolves ND and PASOK of their sins, forming a front in parliament with them in order to pass and implement the barbaric measures of the memoranda and on the other it squabbles with them about who will form the next government.
- The other parties of bourgeois management, ND and PASOK, are utilizing the SYRIZA-ANEL memorandum as a vindication of the barbaric policies they supported and implemented in previous years. They want to extract a “statement of recantation” from the people who denounced and fought against their policies. They promote themselves as guarantors of the “European course” of the country, because they have “expertise” in the memoranda. They present themselves together with POTAMI as possible partners in a future government with SYRIZA.
- During the years of the crisis, the standard of living of the majority of the people fell by 40-50%, every right that had been won earlier through struggles in a more favourable global correlation of forces was smashed. All the parties that promise compensatory measures are lying. No other party recognizes the right of the people to take back what they lost and to consolidate and extend their gains. Today, you can only trust the KKE.
If they vote for other parties,
the people will immediately come face to face with the negative
consequences. The next government on every occasion will invoke this
when the workers and popular strata make demands and struggle against
the new measures and the new application laws.
No more wasted time and disappointments
You must not trust the party that has
split from SYRIZA with the name “Popular Unity” and its cooperation with
older splits from SYRIZA, like Plan B, that serve as shock absorbers.
They played a basic role, up to and including today, in the deception of
leftwing radical people. It is an imitation of SYRIZA which will have
the same result. Every government that poses capitalist development as
its goal will sacrifice the people’s needs on the altar of capitalist
profit. Every government that accepts the obligations the EU
member-states have in order to buttress the competitiveness of the
monopolies will promote restructurings that ensure cheap labour power
for capital. This anti-people direction does not change, whether Greece
remains in the Eurozone or chooses to remain a member of the EU but with
a national currency.
For 25 years they have been providing a
“leftwing” alibi for Greece’s assimilation in the EU and EMU, for the
attack against socialism. They supported, as members of the parliament,
all the steps that prepared the new memorandum (the agreement of the 20th
of February, the Tsipras proposal of 47 pages etc.). They were silent
when Tsipras stated that the position of Greece in the EU and NATO is
non-negotiable, when he swore fealty to capitalism, to the Federation of
Greek Industrialists, in the various fora of international capital. And
today, they present themselves as having been “deceived”.
They confess that they want a national
currency as a tool for capitalist development, while the keys of the
economy continue to belong to the monopolies, Greece will be bound to
the EU or other imperialist economic and monetary alliances. Sections of
capital will once again benefit from this choice. This, in any case, is
what is happening in capitalist EU countries that have a national
currency (Bulgaria, Romania, Sweden, Denmark) or participate in other
monetary alliances. They conceal the fact that the living standards and
rights of the workers are in a downward spiral in all the eurozone and
EU member-states.
The system supports such parties in many
ways, as it did with SYRIZA and its “Left Platform” from 2012 onwards,
as it does with “Popular Unity” today in order to trap radicalism and to
place obstacles in the way of the anticapitalist-antimonopoly line of
struggle advanced by the KKE.
“Popular Unity” is 100% a systemic
party, like the leftwing systemic parties that have existed in Europe
and which are responsible for the assimilation of the labour movement
into the system. Their support for the imperialist system and for
capital is hidden behind anti-memorandum rhetoric.
Isolate Nazi criminal Golden Dawn
Do not allow it to rear its head again,
however much it tries to conceal and blur its criminal Nazi role. Its
support for the most open dictatorship of capital, its transactions with
the big employers, especially with shipping capital, its hatred of the
workers, the struggles and the movement is hidden behind its rhetoric.
Golden Dawn's slogan about “national production” and the priority of the
primary sector- in order to flatter and win over the farmers- conceals
the fact that the country’s productive potential is being destroyed
mainly by the capitalist economic crisis and the weak and unequal
position of Greece in the EU. Golden Dawn, in essence, does not reject
the EU, but seeks the “improvement” of the position of Greek capital
inside it. It fosters hatred against the other peoples, the refugees,
the immigrants, the victims of capitalist barbarity and imperialist
wars. It is the tool the capitalists use to “divide and rule”, a tool to
divide the working class and working people.
There is an alternative solution, a way out in favour of the people
The KKE argues that there is
another way, that there is hope. The memoranda, poverty, unemployment
and the exploitation of the people for the profits of the few is not
inevitable, nor can it be our future or our children’s future.
In the years to follow, the situation
for the people, for all the peoples will deteriorate. The capitalist
system is rotten. Crises and competition that are sharpening amongst the
capitalist states and imperialist centres, inside and outside the
eurozone, will lead to destitution, unemployment, wars, immigration. The
SYRIZA-ANEL government, as the previous governments had done, is
entangling the country even more deeply in these rivalries, going as far
as to plan the creation of a new NATO base in the Aegean Sea.
Despite the temporary compromise and the
agreement of the government with the EU-ECB-IMF, the competition and
splitting tendencies are strengthening, which manifested themselves over
the “Greek problem” and which want a Eurozone comprised of the states
with the strongest economies.
It is a possibility that some states
will leave the Eurozone, as a result of the various choices of capital
and with the criterion of defending the competitiveness and
profitability of capital at the expense of the peoples. Such a
development will also have an impact on the cohesion of the EU. Such a
development in the composition and the depth of the alliances of the
capitalist states in Europe could be accompanied by the strengthening or
weakening of the position of some capitalist states, however it will
not be accompanied by pro-people policies.
It is one thing for the people
themselves to willingly choose the disengagement from the EU, through
their activity, simultaneously taking the keys of the economy and power
into their hands and quite a different thing for a country to find
itself outside the Eurozone as a result of the contradictions and
competition of the capitalists. The first scenario is an alternative
solution in favour of the people and is worth every sacrifice, the
second scenario will lead to the people’s bankruptcy by another route.
The proposal of the KKE for
PEOPLE”S POWER WITH THE SOCIALIZATION OF THE MONOPOLIES-DISENGAGEMENT
FROM THE EU-UNILATERAL CANCELLATION OF THE DEBT can be implemented. This
is the only realistic and hopeful proposal for the people that can
finally put an end to the memoranda and the sacrifices imposed on them
which aim to serve the needs of the capitalist development path.
The realization of this path
depends on the will of the people. The path of rupture with the EU and
IMF, local and foreign capital, requires that the people join forces
with the KKE.
· It is the only true
alternative solution capable of utilizing and further developing the
country’s productive potential in favor of the people. Greece has
preconditions (industrial and agricultural production, mineral wealth,
specialized labor force and scientific personnel) to produce the
majority of the products the people need. And on this basis to develop
mutually beneficial relations with other countries. Today this potential
is either being restricted or utilized in a distorted way, at other
times it is actually undermined because it is subordinated to capitalist
profits, uneven capitalist development and the commitments to the EU.
· The utilization of this
potential requires emancipation from the shackles of capitalist
ownership and power. It is the only proposal that can safeguard
permanent and stable work for all, exclusively public and free services
in education, health and welfare.
· It is the only way to prevent
our country’s dangerous participation in the anti-people military plans
of NATO, the USA and the EU. The only way to ensure that we do not
become entangled in the web of contradictions between the imperialists,
which are fighting amongst each other over how the oil and gas transport
routes will be shared out, transport routes which are always drenched
with the people’s blood.
· Such a path to overthrow the
system will not be lonely or isolated as all the parties that defend
capitalism claim. It will be supported by the struggle and solidarity of
other peoples, movements and countries which are marching on the same
path.
We can bring the people’s victory closer
Today, better preconditions for the
organization and regroupment of the labor movement and the strengthening
of the people’s alliance can be formed. Fissures can emerge in today’s
negative correlation of forces that exists in Greece and
internationally.
What is needed is that the people utilize their experience and use it to empower their struggle for the overthrow of the system
Yes, there is a way and a plan
for our proposal to be realized and for the working class to see better
days, as they should, as they deserve, on the basis of the potential
that society has today. And this path requires the formation of a strong
popular social alliance which will fight against the new anti-people
measures and will have the struggle against the monopolies and
capitalism as its stable compass. Its formation and strengthening today
can help change the negative correlation of forces, empower the
organization, combativeness and militancy of the working class and the
other popular strata. It can counter submission and fatalism, the
subjugation of the people to the old and new managers of capitalism’s
barbarity.
An even more powerful KKE is
needed for this course, in the Parliament and –above all- in the
workplaces, in the big factories, in the popular neighborhoods, in the
rural areas, in the youth.
The KKE is the only force that
can support the struggle of the people against poverty, unemployment and
a degraded life whether inside or outside the Eurozone, with the euro
or with a national currency.
The KKE is the only force that
fights for a rupture with capitalist exploitation and power. It is the
force that can lead the people to a truly different and higher form of
the organization of society as a whole and the economy. This entails
social ownership of the means of production, central planning, workers’
control. These are the preconditions for the real liberation from the
vice-like grip of the markets and capital, for a unilateral and complete
cancellation of the debt, for disengagement from the chains of the EU.
NOW VOTE KKE!
IT IS YOUR FORCE FOR TRUTH, STRUGGLE, FOR THE OVERTHROW OF THE SYSTEM!
CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE KKE
AUGUST 26, 2015
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