Central Coordinating Committee of ANTARSYA briefing (14/9): People and workers must impose their own government and their own power to the power of capital and the EU

The Central Coordinating Committee of ANTARSYA discussed the current political developments and its intervention

1. Since the collapse of the “re-negotiation” myth it is clear that Samaras-led government is a government ‘by coup’, a government subservient to the demands of the Troika, the commands of the Banks, the Capital and the EU.

New cut-throat measures are announced; savage cuts in salaries and pensions; disintegration of healthcare and education; sellout of state enterprises and public utilities, land water, air, ports, islands and airports; massive layoffs of public functionaries, new reduction of the minimum wage. They only care to save the repressive forces from the cuts, presuming that the uniformed bully of Greek Riot Police (MAT) is worth more than a doctor or a teacher. They even want to impose a 6-day working week so as to turn us yearlong into slaves of the employers. 

2.  We need to take the streets again. To continue where we left it at, with strikes and demonstrations, occupations and mobilization in central squares. To organize resistance and solidarity. Through class reconstruction of the labor movement, with movements operating as safety nets, with popular assemblies everywhere. With an anti-capitalist program that opens a different path in the face of destruction:

The mass slaughter of the South-African striking workers in the name of profit reveals the true face of capitalism!

ANTARSYA (Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow, the anti-capitalist front of the Greek Left) expresses its unreserved support and solidarity to the working class of South-Africa. The working class will always remember and honor the miners who were assassinated during their strike.

On the 10th of August, in the city of Marikana, over 3,000 miners went on strike demanding pay raises. The multinational company «Lonmin», the third greatest metal-mining company in the world, with immense profits, assures that the strike is declared illegal. The company threatens to fire the strikers, sets up a strikebreaking mechanism and asks for police intervention. The police, following the company's appeals, assassinated 36 workers and wounds more than 80.