A-Infos (en) Greece, Athens, It is in the streets, not in the corridors of Parliament that will decide our fate - Press release of the libertarian union (ESE) (de, fr, gr) [machine translation]

"Euro or drachma?", "Syriza or memorandum?", "Austerity or bankruptcy?" ... These are some 
of the dilemmas that exist these days in public debate and media. Parties in favor of the 
memorandum are the choice for "the difficult path to save the country by staying in 
Europe, with some hard but necessary", while Syriza "unite the people against the 
memorandum of bankruptcy." Both parties ignore something fundamental: at this stage, there 
is no attack against the country in general, but against employees, pensioners and the 
unemployed, that is to say, against the world of work. ---- All measures taken during the 
economic crisis reduced the value of our work force, directly (lowering the minimum wage 
and unemployment benefits) and indirect (reduced public spending, privatization of public 
goods and services, settlement agreements collective, etc..).

Aadoptées measures are proposals that the employers' organization has Greek on the table 
before the crisis, to boost competitiveness. The bosses are doing well since they will 
have access to a cheaper labor, more disciplined workers and frightened by the threat of 
unemployment. It is not surprising that much of the debt is famous in Greek banks and 
Greek companies. Under the pretext of the crisis, we the workers we have to pay the 
bankruptcy of banks and mortgage bubbles.

For workers, any dilemma in order to "save the country" is a false dilemma. The question 
is not how the country out of crisis, but how workers can cope with the version of the 
crisis management chosen by the bosses. Whether in euros or drachmas, operation is the 
same. What should concern us is how to build from scratch a new labor movement who may 
oppose the attack that we experience as workers. It is impossible that all the Greeks can 
overcome the crisis. We do not have the same interests as Greek businessmen, who increase 
their profits by taking advantage of the measures and restrictions. We, on the contrary, 
we have the same interests as undocumented migrant workers, the parties supporting 
memorandum, joining those of the extreme right (Golden Dawn, etc..), Designate as the 
great problem of Greek society .

The Greek state, regardless of the ruling party, conscientiously follows a specific policy 
by which all who are forced to migrate to Greece are called illegal. The problem is not 
that the state wants to close borders and double-locked. He is unable to do and needs of 
immigrants in the country considered illegal, so that employers can have a cheap labor 
market and obedient. Racism can devalue the wages of this part of the working class, which 
begins with a devaluation of immigrants and of course extends to Greek workers. At the 
same time, the status of illegal enables local mafia to control them more easily. It's a 
vicious circle in which one side is an illegal situation created artificially to degrade 
the value of the labor force of immigrants and push the mafia, while the other racism and 
xenophobia increase , contributing in turn to greater deterioration of the migrants and 
the Greeks.

The Golden Dawn organization is not an anti-system political force. All former members of 
his staff (Kousoumvris, Androutsopoulos, etc..) Have dropped by accusing the leader of 
Mixololiakos cooperate with police and receive money party PASOK and Nea Dimokratia. In 
the Athenian neighborhood of Agios Panteleimonas, where the party occupies the land, he 
sold the protection, in connivance with the police, in bars and shops where obviously 
immigrants work in degrading conditions. Its real purpose is not to "deport illegal 
immigrants" but they continue to be a cheap labor force and obedient to a regime of 
terror. Golden Dawn demand in its election manifesto that immigrants pay Social Security 
twice as much as the Greeks, which is not bad for employers. The labor movement requires 
that workers do not pay Social Security contributions and contribute only what the bosses 
and the state.

Golden Dawn is the "good guys" of the system and, as such, they are not committed to 
restoring the light for those who have none because they could not pay, or remove the 
barrier of tolls for putting people, not to promote civil disobedience in transport, or to 
encourage people to refuse to pay the new tax on income or participate in demonstrations 
against companies that lay off workers. They are available to the system and seek to 
confuse, obscuring who the real enemy. They tell us that it is immigrants and remain very 
quiet and bosses, ruling parties, the memorandum and the police, who knew so well help 
voting measures, protecting parliament against popular anger. It is no coincidence that 
the police are voting en masse for Golden Dawn and if riot forces and the Nazis in charge 
all the events (we have seen more than once).

The political system now denounces Golden Dawn as "extremist element" because of the 
fights shown on television the Nazi Kasidiaris while covering them when they attack every 
day in transport and squares, clubbing and stabbing immigrants and anyone with a pace or a 
haircut that does not return them. Over the last six months the anti-racist organizations 
have registered 500 cases of racist violence and 30 immigrants are reported missing. The 
political system has fully integrated the racist neo-Nazis. Today journalists and 
politicians denounce Golden Dawn as they did before with the LAOS Boridis, Adonis and 
Giorgiadis Plevris, scum they present to us now as "democratic forces". The historical 
role of the extreme right has always been to do the dirty work of the employing class, 
despite its rhetoric "anticapitalist"

As workers, we must face as well as tie in to the fascists fascists with shaved heads. 
Form new unions that are not controlled by political parties and that would integrate the 
immigrant workers, claiming for them equal rights and duties. If we do not, the mafia 
(who, lest we forget, have very good relations with the police and the far right) will 
grow and the "social cannibalism" is extended. It is necessary that we were in every 
neighborhood advocacy groups, public meetings, to protect people at once against attacks 
by neo-Nazis armed with knives like the mafia antisocial violence, a violence that neither 
Golden Dawn nor the police want to stop. Only an organized social movement from below and 
bringing together Greek and immigrants can break the Mafia, whether Greek, foreign or mixed.

The elections, which decide to participate or not, can not solve any real problems for 
workers. Instead, they create the false illusion that all united, workers and bosses, we 
can find a solution to "save the country" (that is to say capitalist profitability). If 
the real balance of forces does not change in society between the employers and the 
workplace, regardless of the government that emerges, politics will continue to operate 
for the benefit of patrons. As workers we have better things to do than worry elections: 
creating autonomous combative unions, organizing strikes on the workplace, strengthen 
neighborhood assemblies, form committees antifascist, create social structures of 
solidarity and working class autonomy.

Receive the new government as it deserves: by strikes and demonstrations!

http://athens.ese-gr.org info@ese-gr.org

[NDT] Golden Dawn is a far-right party that has grown following the participation in the 
government's far-right party LAOS, which lost many votes in the elections of May 2012.
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