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The Final Day, Sunday July 5, 2015: The Triumph
By Savas Michael-Matsas
It is a
great moment for the Greek people, for all oppressed all over Europe, all over
the world. OXI, a defiant, proud,
massive popular NO has triumphed
against the arrogant ultimatum posed by the imperialist institutions of
the IMF and the EU for a permanent
barbaric austerity.
About 62
per cent of the voters supported the NO. Only about 38 per cent voted 'Yes'. In the working class areas the vote was raised to an incredible 70-80 percent! The infamous leader of the Official Right Opposition of New
Democracy, Samaras, had to resign.
We have
experienced an unprecedented campaign of intimidation of the Greek people, orchestrated internationally by the centers of global capital. The closure of the
banks imposed by the decision of the European Central Bank to cut liquidity the week leading up to the referendum
produced enormous pressures and fear. Imperialist blackmail was fully supported by all the Greek
bourgeois opposition parties, all the bourgeois mass media, the SEV (
Confederation of Greek Industrialists), the
bankers, the trade union bureaucrats of the GSEE ( Confederation of
Labor) and ADEDY ( the Federation of Civil Servants), by reactionary bishops of the Church, and a
reactionary pro-EU “civil society
movement” organized from above on the pattern of Euro-Maidan in Kiev. All the
enemies of the working class and of the impoverished people combined their forces to secure a victory of
the Yes.
Among
the Left, the Stalinist Communist Party boycotted the No vote, calling for a null or
abstention.
This
Unholy Alliance failed miserably to achieve its reactionary goals.
They underestimated the strength, the anger, the resistance, the fighting
capacity of their victims: of the
workers, of the millions of jobless and
pauperized people, first of all of the younger generation without a job and
without a future.
The political turning point that demonstrated
what was boiling beneath the surface took place the last day of the public
campaign for the referendum, with the
extraordinary popular mobilization in Syntagma, last Friday, July 3. The real social force of historical change
came into the arena of class struggle, as the real protagonist. A new phase
of revolutionary radicalization has started and with it a new transition
towards a decisive confrontation.
Vangelis
Meimarakis, former Chairman of the
Parliament and now interim Chairman of
New Democracy, threatened in openly
class terms the victorious people, in his first
comment on the results: “ The
bourgeois class that supported
the Yes will give its own answer if an
agreement with the EU is not achieved”.
The
danger comes not so much from the camp
of the defeated Right
but rather from the leaders of the victorious Left. The Syriza government made repetitive
calls for “national unity" and for no break with the EU. Tsipras asked
the President of the Republic to call a meeting of all parliamentary parties
to elaborate a common stand in
future negotiations for a
“reasonable deal” with the EU. The
Syriza demands class peace and class
collaboration in conditions of an open class war.
As the
Communiqué of the Political Bureau of the EEK on the victory of the NO insists saying “No concessions, no new retreats in front of the class enemy, the imperialist troika and the
Greek bourgeoisie! We won a battle but the class war continues until the final
victory, workers power and Socialism in Greece and all over Europe!”
A new chapter in the history of the world
capitalist crisis and social revolution
has opened. In these new conditions, the EEK is preparing to host the 3rd
Euro-Mediterranean Conference of social
movements and revolutionary
organizations of Europe, the Balkans and
the wider Mediterranean region in Athens, on July 18-20, to elaborate
collectively an analysis of the current situation, a perspective of struggle and a common plan of action.
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