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.
Read more: P.B. of OKDE Spartakos for the election's result, 26/01/2015
Nationwide greek general strike on the 27th of November. We must use this strike as a turning point in order to escalate the worker’s resistance to the government’s and Troika’s new attacks upon them. We must turn this strike into a springboard of counterattack to take back all that has been stolen from the workers world during the last years of the memoranda policies. This day of nationwide general strike, must be the start of the government’s and its undeniable class war against the working class, ostracism. And above all, we must utilize said strike, in order to construct a labor movement worthy of enforcing to every government its measures to suffice the workers needs and rights today.
Read more: OKDE-Spartakos for the general strike, 27.11.2014
