Announcement of the Political Bureau of OKDE-SPARTAKOS about the elections in 20th of September

If the result of the elections in January expressed the hope (along with the illusions it included) of the working class for  abolition of the memoranda and austerity through the parliamentary route and a “Government of the Left”, the same, more or less, result in the election of the 20^th of September has a totally different meaning: it depicts the limits of the working class’ movement until now. The victory and the only slight weakening of SYRIZA a few weeks after it introduced the 3^rd memorandum show that a big part of the workers accept that, for the moment, there is no alternative. At the same time, the transformation of SYRIZA is maturating, as the party got rid of its left wing, as well as of the (not so big anyway) older makeweight it had in the trade unions, with quite a small cost.

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Statement on the September 20th Greek Elections

Against Syriza's austerity and the false alternatives of Popular Unity and the KKE

For an independent and working class policy - The capitalists must pay for the crisis

1.The capitulation of the Syriza-Anel government with the adoption of the third memorandum was the culmination of various concessions to the Troika made by Tsipras. The third memorandum is nothing less than a new “colonial pact”; with an increase in taxes on the people, pension reform, privatizations, attacks on labor agreements and new cuts.

Syriza has transformed itself into the implementer of the toughest neoliberal plans against workers and the Greek people. In these elections Syriza will seek to gain legitimacy in order impose these policies against the workers and the people. It is possible that the results will end in a coalition government as the Troika would like. Its incredible openness towards PASOK in the face of less favorable polling results is a sign of this.

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DECLARATION DU P.B. DE OKDE-SPARTAKOS POUR LES ELECTIONS DU 20 SEPTEMBRE

Si le résultat des élections de janvier exprimait l’ espoir (et aussi les illusions) de la classe ouvrière pour se débarrasser du Memorandum et de l’ austérité par la voie électorale et “un gouvernement de la gauche”, le résultat aux élections du 20 septembre, s'il est à peu près le même, a un sens bien différent : il reflète les limites actuelles du mouvement ouvrier. La victoire et l’ affaiblissement très limité de SYRIZA quelques semaines après qu’ il a imposé le 3e Memorandum montrent qu’ une grande partie des travailleurs accepte pour le moment qu’ il n’ y avait pas d’ alternative. En même temps la mutation de SYRIZA en parti gouvernemental avance, après qu'il se soit débarrassé de son aile gauche et des ses liens antérieurs dans les syndicats (pas trop grands faut-il dire !), sans grandes pertes.

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OKDE – Spartakos statement on the oncoming elections

1.The government of SYRIZA-ANEL agreed, planned and voted for the third memorandum, ignoring provocatively the OXI movement and the undoubted result of the referendum. SYRIZA has undertaken the duty of applying a major series of austerity measures and privatizations on behalf of the bourgeois class of Greece and the bourgeois classes of Europe, the pressure of whom did not allow for anything like “honest compromises”. And they decided to impose these measures at all costs, just like all governments with a similar duty: with oppression, police violence and trials against the anti – memorandum militants.

This situation did not come out of nowhere. This is the normal and predictable outcome of a deeply rooted political management of the bourgeois state and of class collaboration policy, which together lead to the benefit of the stronger side of the tug of war, the side of the capitalist class. Militant parts of the working class are breaking from their illusions on the policy of SYRIZA or on the alleged subversive developments that would be the result of their government. SYRIZA's own mechanisms are being disintegrated by the daily withdrawals of members of the base and the leadership.

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