This is a translated excerpt from a recent speech by the GS of the KKE, the Greek Communist Party. This is how it is done, this is how one confronts the deprivations of capitalist financiers and capitalists in general.
No more blackmails. We will respond with our actions. No more blackmails. Enough is enough. For too long the people have taken into their account these extortions. The blackmailer will never stop here. If you give him something today, he will come tomorrow asking for more. Have you ever seen a blackmailer to willingly stop asking for more? If we succumb then our People will pay the price. We, KKE, will never allow to ourselves to let the Greek workers succumb who have long traditions in struggling in the factories, in the ports, at the streets and his struggles are now well known through Europe
What type of authority can deny the Debt without punishment and retaliation or what type of government can deal with the retaliation (because it is certain that they will retaliate) by mobilizing all the developmental forces of the country and people's participation? Power of the People and capitalistic ownership are 100% incompatible. We say: Only the government of the People's Power can liberate the country from EU restrictions, from the bonds of Imperialism, from the restrictions of private capitalistic ownership. The socialization and the cooperative production centrally organized together in national scale based on worker's checking of the production from the bottom to the top, will become the propulsive force for a development which will abolish unemployment, the anarchy of capitalistic development and will distribute the working force and all means of production to different branches of production. One part of the social product will be distributed by measuring the time needed for the production of this product and the other part of the social product such as Education, Health, House accommodation, Medicines, Energy, water etc will be distributed according to the social needs.
If we assume that tomorrow PASOK loses the power (something we obviously want) and it is replaced by the government of the self-proclaimed progressive leftist forces who are fantasizing that they can renegotiate the Debt and annul the Memorandum with Troika. If they annul the Memorandum without even touching the ownership of monopolies, they wont succeed anything else but to help Monopolies to regroup and counterattack while the People, unprepared for this event and disoriented, will be demoralized. At that point will will see again the kettle movement. They, the supporters of such a government, should tell us in which country a policy like that managed to win and stopped things from going back. It is one thing to lose the power or not become a government because of negative situations and something else to have the working class quit from the effort of taking the power. The fact that we now are presenting to the people the question of who should take the power, doesnt make us forget the problems of the unemployed, the pensioner and the self-employed. On the contrary, the question of power will help the people to counterattack now, to carry out his struggle as effectively as possible.
The bourgeois class of Greece is preparing with the participation in the new round of peripheral armed conflicts. We are asking: They are preparing. Shouldn't we, the working class, the people, to be prepared, now, fast and effectively ideologically and politically? Or will we let those in power, unharmed and undistracted to overtake their difficulties and make the political system more barbaric, more authoritative and more oppressive? The emancipation of the people is closely related to the struggle for blockading the new measures, no matter if they are of social democratic or liberal origin.
We are calling the people to stop paying the unjust taxes. This is the response to government's threats that we will experience hellish conditions in the next two month. To the “hellish months” that the government is promising us, we respond : We must make the life of the government and Troika a real living hell. We will make the life of the monopoly a real hell. How long the people will have to put up with such extortions: “Pay or die slowly”. Are we going to leave those who cant pay the taxes embodied in the electricity bills or the people who cant pay their loans to lose their own houses or to be sent to jail? We are supporting, we are encouraging and we are participating in an pan-hellenic movement organized by the trade unions, the massive organizations of women and the youth, the people's committees. We are supporting any movement who denies the payment of government's unjust taxation.
We are obliged to fight against our known weaknesses and deficiencies so we can manage to turn the dissatisfaction of the big part of the working class into a decision of organized, planned struggle for the overthrow of the bourgeois power for the benefit of the working class and its allies. Because the people's economy will declare public property all the wealth that our country really has, will exploit all the developmental perspective for the benefit of the people's prosperity without dependences from EU and NATO.
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