Class struggle has no intervals
1. Αll hopes that the working class can get rid of austerity by voting and electing a “government of the left” collapsed very soon. SYRIZA won the election and formed a government. Not a government of the left, of course, but a collaboration government along with the extreme right nationalist party Independent Greeks (ANEL) and with various socialdemocrats. However, SYRIZA is the primary determinant of the governmental policy. And this government of “national salvation” (this is the term for class collaboration in the language of politics), after some bravado, entered an endless game of negotiating with creditors, with the troika, with imperialist institutions and with capitalists both in Greece and Europe.
2. There are conflicts in this negotiation between the government and the troika (IMF, ECB and EU). However none of the two sides represent the real interests or working people, the unemployed, the oppressed and the poor.