Thursday, July 16, 2015

Stavros Mavroudeas — SYRIZA betrays the resounding NO vote of the Greek people and signs a 3rd troika austerity program

It is of paramount importance for the Left not to leave the field free to the extreme Right as it had happened in West Europe. A Left popular front against the EU should be urgently organized. This should involve political forces and grassroots popular organizations, fight austerity and capitalist restructuring and strive for the total disengagement of Greece from EU (that is for a popular Grexit involving leaving the whole structure and not solely the monetary union). It is the task of the independent and militant Left and the combatant forces of labor to instigate this front.
The Left will have to rethink its internationalism, which should not be difficult. The Left is not about internationalism as much as the worker revolution being international. "Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains."

What this amounts to is reversing the priority of ownership over work to that of the dignity of work and needs of the people, the majority of whom are workers and those unable able to work, — children, students, the disabled, and the elderly. 

The assumption that there is no alternative to working people serving owners and organizers is just that, an assumption, and the claim that there are no alternatives is not founded.

In this regard, the Right is not the workers' friend. Listen up, Left.

Naked Keynesianism
SYRIZA betrays the resounding NO vote of the Greek people and signs a 3rd troika austerity program
Stavros Mavroudeas | Professor of Political Economy in the Economics Department of the University of Macedonia

2 comments:

lastgreek said...

EU threats of the other kind:

During a pivotal meeting with Merkel, French President François Hollande and European Council President Donald Tusk, Tsipras at one point received a thinly veiled threat that if he walked away and left the euro, Greece risked going it alone geopolitically, too.

According to two officials in Brussels with knowledge of the exchange, the specter was raised of aggression from Turkey — a neighboring nation viewed in Greece as a historic antagonist.


Greek leader’s debt deal ignites revolt at home from austerity’s opponents

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/greece-agrees-to-a-punishing-ultimatum-from-european-leaders/2015/07/13/4b6c2f2a-28f3-11e5-960f-22c4ba982ed4_story.html

Anonymous said...

I don't think the left is going to abandon its internationalism, and throw in with all the tea partiers, Birchers, "firsters" and paranoids on the nationalist and sovereigntist right. Not in Europe and not in the United States. So what that means in the immediate case of Europe is that for the European left to recover its vitality, relevance and vision, while holding firmly onto its traditional commitments to democracy and equality, it needs to relaunch the drive for the full social, economic and democratic unification of Europe.

No Financial Union without Social and Democratic Union!