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This "NO" was only the beginning!

The "NO" answer in the 5^th of July's referendum was a painful slap against the traditional parties of the capital, the bourgeoisie, the systemic media. At the short period before the referendum, this disputatious alliance had extorted and terrorized the people, using all means available: Via television, through newspapers, into the work places. They only managed to make fool of themselves and to increase the class hate even more.

The referendum turned into a pure class fight, regardless of Syriza's intentions. The working class voted NO and rejected the settlement massively, despite the historical betrayal of the General Working Union's bureaucracy, which sided openly with the "YES" and with the capitalists. The bourgeoisie fought hard in favor of YES, even its parts which weren't hostile to Syriza. The majority of the middle class, having almost nothing to loose anymore, formed into line with the working class and voted NO. In contrary to those who called for national unity and amity, it became clear to everyone that two, totally different "societies" exist in the country: The exploiters and the exploited. The escalation of the class consciousness of a large part of the working class creates a vast amount of fear to those who are afraid of a clear expression of the class and choose the national unity as their main slogan, in order to promote the complacency and the social peace.

Ce "NON" n'était que le début!

La réponse "NON" au référendum du 5 juillet a été une grosse claque pour les partis traditionnels du capital, la bourgeoisie, les médias du système. Durant la courte période qui a précédé le référendum, cette alliance encline à la polémique a fait du chantage et terrorisé le peuple, par tous les moyens à sa disposition : via la télévision, les journaux, et sur les lieux de travail. Ils n'ont réussi qu'à se ridiculiser et faire monter encore plus la haine de classe.

Le référendum est devenu un pur combat de classe, indépendamment des intentions de Syriza. La classe ouvrière a voté NON et massivement rejeté l'accord, malgré la trahison historique de la bureaucratie du Syndicat Général des Travailleurs, qui s'est ouvertement rangée du côté du "OUI" et des capitalistes. La bourgeoisie s'est durement battue pour le OUI, même ses franges qui n'étaient pas hostiles à Syriza. La majorité de la classe moyenne, n'ayant presque plus rien à perdre, s'est alignée sur la classe ouvrière et a voté NON. À l'encontre de cru qui appelaient à la cohésion et à l'union nationale, il est devenu clair pour tout le monde qu'il y a deux "sociétés",complètement différentes dans le pays : les exploiteurs et les exploités. La montée de la conscience de classe d'une large part de la classe ouvrière crée un grand effroi chez ceux qui ont peur que la classe s'exprime clairement et qui choisissent comme principal slogan l'unité nationale, dans le but de promouvoir la complaisance et la paix sociale.

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.

NO! No agreement – End the negotiations

Decision of the CC of OKDE – SPARTAKOS 28.06.2015

The greek government, despite its persistent efforts, failed to win the confidence of the institutions (EU, IMF) and the favor or the hegemonic bourgeois classes of Europe. The vows of loyalty to the repayment of the debt “fully and timely” and the renunciation of unilateral actions, as well as of any measure which would be contrary to the capitalist normality, weren’t enough. SYRIZA adopted ever more measures and reforms in full accordance with the memoranda (privatizations, retirement age increases, de facto reductions in wages and pensions, increasing VAT in mass consumption products etc.). The EU and the IMF, however, along with their domestic partners in Greece, don't want just harsh measures, but they also want to destroy any hope (and illusion) reflected in the election of a government that was elected with the slogan of terminating the memoranda, even if this slogan was withdrawn the very first day after the elections.

P.B. of OKDE Spartakos for the election's result, 26/01/2015

In the elections of 25 of January the Government of memorandums and the parties that managed the crisis of Greek capitalism with during the period of austerity have suffered a great defeat. The factor that demolished the government of New-Democracy and Pasok, as well as the previous bourgeois governments of memorandum was the pressure of the movement of the working class, the youth and the oppressed. Despite the contradictions and the retractions, the strikes, the occupations, the demonstrations and in general, the struggles of the last years bring a result, they can bring down governments and they are able to win.

The instability of the regime of the political system, which came as a result of the crisis and the pressure of the movement was also a factor that made it possible for Syriza to come in power. The victory of a party that comes from the reformist left echoes the hopes of a vast part of the working class and the petit-bourgeois class to abolish the consequences of the crisis and austerity, hopes though, that in a big part are invested in the logic of representation and not the vivid participation.

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This "NO" was only the beginning!

Ce "NON" n'était que le début!

Class struggle has no intervals

NO! No agreement – End the negotiations

P.B. of OKDE Spartakos for the election's result, 26/01/2015

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