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Create one,two, three, many Greeces!

by giorgos - Open-Publishing - Thursday 24 May 2012
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Create one, two, three, many Greeces!

24 May by Sonia Mitralias

Speech in the great anti-capitalist demonstration in Frankfurt, Germany, May 19, 2012

Comrades,

I come from Greece, a country destroyed and desperate, a country in ruins but still standing tall. From this Greece that resists and has shouted a huge magnificent "No" to its torturers: the Troika and the IMF, the Brussels Commission and their Merkel and Schäuble, their Barrosos, Sarkozys and the bankers. In short, to those who govern us and impose inhuman, barbaric policies on us. These policies are already causing child malnutrition and even hunger in major Greek cities. And where is all this happening? Not somewhere in the Third World, but here in the heart of rich Europe. And when? Now, at the moment in history when humanity produces more wealth than it ever had before! ...

Comrades,

The results of the May 6 election leave no room for doubt: a huge majority of Greeks have rejected the politics of austerity. This is a true political earthquake! The country that was chosen to be the laboratory for an austerity program is now in open revolt against those who starve and humiliate it, against those who close its hospitals and schools, and against those who destroy this beautiful country to sell it for nothing, against its Greek and foreign torturers alike.

But take care: the Greeks in revolt should not be left alone at the moment they are transforming their anger into a conscious and liberating movement, now that the prospect of a Greek left government begins to rise on the horizon, to become possible and realistic. If Merkel and Sarkozy, the IMF and the European Commission in Brussels have made Greece a laboratory of their barbaric policies and made guinea pigs of the Greeks, it is up to us, people of Europe, to do the same by making Greece the front line of our common battles against those who destroy our lives and the environment. Because Greek resistance is our resistance, its struggles are our struggles...

Comrades,

I come from a country that turns its gaze toward you today, awaiting concrete acts of solidarity. Now and not tomorrow. For it is now more than ever that the Greeks in revolt are directly threatened with extinction by those who fear that their example will be copied and spread like an oil slick across Europe. And I assure you, these Greeks in revolt are convinced that the best way to show solidarity with them is to imitate them. Imitate their example at home, in your country. While developing and coordinating resistance against the inhuman policies of austerity and destruction. Besides, this is exactly what our enemies fear most: CONTAGION! The contagion of struggles throughout Europe.

So yes, let us do it, let’s make TWO, THREE, MANY GREECES! Let’s get networked, coordinate our struggles, organize step by step a united and radical, massive and democratic movement , above all in our old continent, across Europe, from Romania to Ireland and from Italy to Iceland. A long-term movement with great liberating goals, which combines the broadest unity with a liberating radicalism. Now is the time. Because ... United we stand - Divided we fall! Or in French struggle language: Tous ensemble, tous ensemble, oué oué oué …
(All together, all together, yeah yeah yeah) ...

Thank you comrades.

Translated by John Catalinotto

Forum posts

  • Comerade , we are running out of time for setting up another ’Altermondialist’ radical front, we now need a clear cut SOCIAL ALTERNATIVE, to develop and snow-ball the masses and the people in grave danger of neo- fascism organized since 20 years outside and inside these states and NATO(II) forces carrying out Permanent Structural Wars to enslave the whole planet ! Look for Syriza, the beautifull breakthrough comment or www.oppressedpeople.com / Complete Alternative article ! Abram

  • GREECE,

    I am so proud of this nation, it has been hard and tough and lives have been lost but not as many in the wars that have been fought before in the name of freedom and self determination by your forebears! Now you recognize the sacrifice made for you all by them in their valiant efforts, hopes and prayers that you may have a better life than they ever enjoyed. I also praise Egypt and all the other countries in their efforts to do the same all around the world. Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro and now many latin American countries have woken up to the American and British dream that has been a nightmare for everybodyelse. Major BANKING FRAUD, that includes your puppet government sucking the moeny and resources out of your countries and leaving the people destitute and needy, while their is no better healthcare, education or infrastructure!
    Economic hitmen with their businesses, which included the tourism trap, why did they feel the need to label it tourism when people have travelled to your countries before! its because they supplanted thier businesses their and gave you a JOB with meagre wages while the prices in their shops go up and you wage didn’t, thats hoe poverty happens.

    GUESS who did that while smiling in your face and devaluing your money -while making your people take out loans for the most basic of needs. Its a pity you all thought they were nice while they were enjoying the best your country had to offer on holidays to their own resorts!!! Greece its going to be worth it, keep your people together, gain knowledge and help each other. Each one teach one and pull each other up this is how you build a better nation. The BRIC (Brazil, Russia,India, South Africa) are all doing well because they have seen the light and know how they have been treated and exploited. it has taken along time for Europeans to wake up and realize these boom and bust policies weren’t going to work, or their QUICK FIX polly filler atitude to everything thats important to people, like education, healthcare and decent affordable homes to raise a family. Its time to see what information is useful to your people(what your parents and forebears told you) and disregard the rest!!!

    NOBODY ON THIS EARTH SHOULD BE PAYING FOR BANKERS DEBT, OR FRAUDSTER POLITICIANS AND THEIR MINIONS!
    PROTEST, PROTEST,PROTEST START OR JOIN THE OWS(occupy movement) whereever you are because its all our futures on the line and we want the 1% to know we are after their heads and that they do not have a future. We do not want to see them parading their pulled and pinched asses in front of us with OUR MONEY thats the ultimate insult. Overpaid,singing artist, footballers and other sports people etc this is how they lifted their people out of poverty while telling us to bet on them too! It was all a scam from the beginning, A SCAM THAT SNOWBALLED.