| Escrito por LIT-CI |
| Domingo 16 de Mayo de 2010 23:12 |
Declaración de la LIT-CI
¡Su lucha es la de todos!
El pasado 5 de mayo la clase trabajadora y el pueblo griego volvieron a paralizar completamente el país contra el brutal plan de ajuste de la Unión Europea y el FMI, aplicado por el gobierno “socialista” del PASOK. Era la cuarta huelga general desde que el pasado diciembre se desencadenó la crisis de la deuda griega. Marchas multitudinarias recorrieron Atenas y todas las ciudades griegas. Decenas de miles de manifestantes cercaron y atacaron el parlamento griego, la gran institución de la democracia burguesa, convertido en cámara de sometimiento a los dictados de las grandes potencias de la Unión Europea. Los choques con la policía fueron generalizados. Una nueva convocatoria de huelga general está en marcha para el 20 de mayo.
“Quieren convertirnos en pobres”
El plan de ajuste es draconiano: recortes de empleo público; reducción del 25% del salario a los empleados públicos; bajada de las pensiones en un 20%; aumento de la edad de jubilación; grandes recortes en los servicios públicos; graves retrocesos en los derechos laborales, como la abolición de los convenios colectivos y la liberalización y abaratamiento de los despidos; fortísima subida de impuestos (el IVA sube del 19 al 23% y la gasolina, el alcohol y el tabaco un 10%, mientras rebajan impuestos a los empresarios); privatizaciones de todo lo que queda por privatizar.
Los trabajadores griegos han definido con precisión el objetivo del plan: “quieren convertirnos en pobres”, “devolvernos a los años 50”. Es un plan para desangrar salvajemente al pueblo griego con el fin de que los banqueros alemanes, franceses y griegos y otros buitres financieros sigan enriqueciéndose con el gran negocio de la deuda pública. Para ello, han convertido a Grecia en un protectorado económico sin soberanía nacional.
La UE al borde del abismo
La crisis griega y su efecto “contagio” ha sido el detonante de una crisis general que ha colocado ala zona euro y a la UE al borde mismo del abismo y amenazaba con una nueva crisis financiera mundial, todavía más devastadora que la que se desencadenó tras la quiebra de Leman Brothers en 2008. En un intento de salvamento a la desesperada, la UE ha aprobado un macroplan europeo de “rescate”, dotado de 750.000 millones de euros, destinado a préstamos de emergencia a los países del euro en riesgo de suspensión de pagos. El FMI (donde EEUU tiene la voz cantante) se hará cargo de la tercera parte de estos fondos. Han acordado también que el Banco Central Europeo compre deuda pública y privada de los países en peligro y mantenga todas las facilidades de crédito a los bancos. Al mismo tiempo, los gobiernos de Alemania y Francia han impuesto un estricto sistema de control que, al estilo de Grecia, transforma a los países “periféricos” en verdaderos protectorados económicos.
La clave del plan de salvamento de la UE no es otra que imponer un retroceso histórico a la clase trabajadora europea. Por eso han establecido condiciones drásticas para pertenecer a la eurozona y a la UE y medidas draconianas para acceder a los fondos de “rescate”, según el modelo griego. Indigna escuchar que son préstamos para “ayudar a Grecia”, cuando el pueblo trabajador griego no va a ver un solo euro de esa “ayuda” sino, por el contrario, sólo penalidades y sufrimientos.
Grecia preanuncia los planes de ajuste para toda Europa, comenzando por países más débiles como Portugal, el Estado español, Irlanda o Italia. Los gobiernos español y portuguésya han anunciado un drástico paquete de endurecimiento de sus planes de choque. Estos planes están llamados, además, a ir a más, porqueel retroceso económico que provocan acaba generando más déficit público y más deuda… hasta que el país, desangrado y exhausto, no pueda pagar y se vea obligado a declarar la suspensión de pagos
¡Fuera la UE! ¡Por una Europa de los trabajadores y los pueblos!
Grecia ha dejado en evidencia que no hay salida dentro de la UE ni en el marco del respeto a las bases del capitalismo. La UE se ha mostrado como la expresión descarnada de la Europa del Capital y como un engendro antidemocrático irreformable. La agudeza de la crisis griega, la catástrofe que representa para el pueblo griego, sólo puede enfrentarse si se declara el no reconocimiento de la deuda, si rompe con el euro y con la UE y si se toman medidas drásticas y urgentes para reorganizar la economía al servicio de la gran mayoría: expropiando a la banca, nacionalizando las empresas estratégicas, repartiendo el trabajo, estableciendo el monopolio del comercio exterior y buscando la solidaridad de clase de los trabajadores europeos, en la lucha común por una Europa de los trabajadores y de los pueblos, por unos Estados Unidos Socialistas de Europa.
“Todos somos trabajadores griegos”
El conflicto griego es la primera gran prueba de fuerza entre el capital financiero y la clase trabajadora europea, que ha tenido la fortuna de que esta primera gran prueba se desarrolle en Grecia, el país con la clase trabajadora más combativa del continente y donde la burocracia sindical encuentra más dificultades para controlar a un movimiento obrero en cuya base hay un importante peso de la izquierda clasista y combativa.
Los trabajadores griegos son un ejemplo magnífico de combatividad y valentía para toda la clase obrera europea. Ellos marcan el camino a seguir y merecen, como la parte más avanzada que son, la más amplia solidaridad de clase. Todos tenemos que responder a la llamada de los trabajadores griegos: “Pueblos de Europa, levantaos”. La lucha de Grecia es la nuestra, la de todos. Apoyar a Grecia y unir fuerzas contra los planes de ajuste es la gran tarea de los trabajadores.
Organizar la resistencia común a escala europea
Diferentes organizaciones sindicales europeas han firmado un manifiesto titulado “Todos somos trabajadores griegos”, en el que afirman: “Para salvar su sistema capitalista, los empresarios y los accionistas se han organizado internacionalmente: el movimiento sindical debe actuar atravesando fronteras para imponer otro sistema diferente (…) Esperamos avanzar en la instauración de una red sindical alternativa en Europa, abierta a todas las fuerzas que quieren luchar contra el capitalismo y el liberalismo. ¡Desarrollemos y coordinemos las luchas sociales y construyamos la resistencia común a nivel europeo! Frente a la crisis la huelga general es necesaria. ¡Nosotros la queremos construir!”
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*Supplement of International Courier_*
*Nr **1 May 2010*
*IWL-FI Statement*
*SOLIDARITY WITH THE GREEK WORKING CLASS AND THE TOILING MASSES!*
*Nr **1 May 2010*
*IWL-FI Statement*
*SOLIDARITY WITH THE GREEK WORKING CLASS AND THE TOILING MASSES!*
Your struggle is ours!
On last 5^th May, Greek working class and the toiling masses once more paralysed the entire country against the brutal plan of adjustments of the European Union and the IMF applied by the socialist PASOK administration. This is the fourth general strike since last December when the crisis of the Greek debt was triggered off. Crowds of people swept through the streets of Athens and all the other Greek cities. Tens of thousands of demonstrators besieged and attacked the Greek Parliament, the great institution of bourgeois democracy converted into a chamber of submission to the dictates of the great powers of the European Union. Clashes with the police were widespread. A new summons for a general strike is underway for the 20^th May.
*They want to turn us to paupers!*
The adjustment plan is Draconian: further unemployment, 25% reduction of salaries of civil servants, increase in age limit for pensions, reduction of public services, serious retreat in labour rights, such as the abolition of collective agreements and liberalisation and reduction of the costs of layoffs, strong increase of taxes (The GHP rose from 19 to 23%) and gas oil, alcohol and tobacco a 10% while taxes for entrepreneur were reduced; they are privatising everything that has not yet been privatised.
Greek workers have coined expressions to define accurately the objectives of the plan: they want to turn us to paupers and they want to drive us back to the 50s. It is a plan to bleed Greek people to death and so benefit German, French and Greek entrepreneurs and other financial vultures that are still getting richer and richer with the great business of the public debt. That is why they have turned Greece into an economic protectorate with no national sovereignty.
*EU on the verge of the abyss*
The Greek crisis and its contagious effect has triggered off a general crisis that has placed the Euro zone on the very verge of the abyss and threatens with a new world financial crisis, even more devastating than the one that was unleashed after the bankruptcy of Leman Brothers in 2008. In an attempt at a desperate rescue operation, the EU has passed a European macro plan with a dowry of 750 000 million euros meant for emergency loans to countries of the euro in danger of having to stop paying. The IMF (where the USA has the leading role) will take over a third of these funds. They have also agreed that the European Central Bank will buy the public and private debt of the countries in danger and maintain full facilities of bank credits. At the same time, the governments of Germany and France have imposed a very strict control system which, in the Greek way, transforms peripheral countries into veritable economic protectorates.
The key issue of the rescue of the EU is nothing but a historic retreat fro European working class. That is why they have established drastic condition to belong to the euro zone and the EU and draconian conditions to gain access to the funds of rescue, according to the Greek model. It is outrageous to hear that these are loans to help Greece when Greek toiling masses will not see a single euro but will suffer the consequences and penalties.
Greece preannounces the plans for the entire Europe, beginning by the weakest countries, such as Portugal, Spain, Ireland or Italy. The government of Spain and Portugal have already announced a drastic packet of toughening measures for their clash plans. Furthermore, these plans are doomed to go beyond all that because the economic slope down they cause will cause more public deficit and more debt… until the country bleeding and exhausted will no longer be able to pay and so will have to call for stop payment fee.
*Out with the EU*
Greece has provided the evidence that there is no solution inside the EU or within the framework of respect for the basic rules of capitalism. EU has now been revealed as the stark expression of the Europe of the Capital and as an antidemocratic freak that cannot be reformed. The sharpness of the Greek crisis can only be challenged if we declare the non-acknowledgement of the foreign debt, splitting away from the euro and the EU and taking drastic and urgent measures to reorganise economy in the service of the vast majority: expropriating the banks, nationalising the strategic companies, distributing labour, establishing the monopoly of foreign trade and seeking class solidarity of all European workers in a common strife of a workers and popular Europe, for the Socialist United States of Europe.
*We are all Greek Workers*
The Greek conflict is the first great test of forces between the financial capital and the European working class; it has been fortunate enough that this first phase took place in Greece, the country with the most combatant working class on the continent and where trade union bureaucracy finds it difficult to control a workers movement, the grassroots of which have a strong base of classist and combatant left.
Greek workers are a magnificent example of courage and combativity for the entire European working class. They are the ones who are showing us the way to go and deserve as the vanguard that they are the most ample solidarity of the class. We all have to respond to the call of the Greek workers, People of Europe, arise! The struggle of the Greek people is ours, everyones. Support Greece and join forces against the plans of adjustments is the great task of the workers.
*Organise the common resistance on European scale*
Different European trade unions have signed a manifesto called We are all Greek workers where they assert that: In order to save their capitalist system, entrepreneur and shareholders got internationally organised; trade unions must act breaking through the frontiers to impose a different system (…) We hope to advance in the instauration of an alternative trade union network in Europe, open to all the forces willing to fight against capitalism and liberalism. Let us develop and coordinate social struggles and build a common European resistance! It is necessary to confront the crisis with a general strike. We want to build that!
European organisations of the International League of Workers Fourth International (IWL-FI) pledge to support this statement and to take concrete steps in this direction to build a new political and trade union leadership for European workers, absolutely necessary to advance towards the defeat of the bourgeoisie and the establishment of socialism based on proletarian democracy.
*They want to turn us to paupers!*
The adjustment plan is Draconian: further unemployment, 25% reduction of salaries of civil servants, increase in age limit for pensions, reduction of public services, serious retreat in labour rights, such as the abolition of collective agreements and liberalisation and reduction of the costs of layoffs, strong increase of taxes (The GHP rose from 19 to 23%) and gas oil, alcohol and tobacco a 10% while taxes for entrepreneur were reduced; they are privatising everything that has not yet been privatised.
Greek workers have coined expressions to define accurately the objectives of the plan: they want to turn us to paupers and they want to drive us back to the 50s. It is a plan to bleed Greek people to death and so benefit German, French and Greek entrepreneurs and other financial vultures that are still getting richer and richer with the great business of the public debt. That is why they have turned Greece into an economic protectorate with no national sovereignty.
*EU on the verge of the abyss*
The Greek crisis and its contagious effect has triggered off a general crisis that has placed the Euro zone on the very verge of the abyss and threatens with a new world financial crisis, even more devastating than the one that was unleashed after the bankruptcy of Leman Brothers in 2008. In an attempt at a desperate rescue operation, the EU has passed a European macro plan with a dowry of 750 000 million euros meant for emergency loans to countries of the euro in danger of having to stop paying. The IMF (where the USA has the leading role) will take over a third of these funds. They have also agreed that the European Central Bank will buy the public and private debt of the countries in danger and maintain full facilities of bank credits. At the same time, the governments of Germany and France have imposed a very strict control system which, in the Greek way, transforms peripheral countries into veritable economic protectorates.
The key issue of the rescue of the EU is nothing but a historic retreat fro European working class. That is why they have established drastic condition to belong to the euro zone and the EU and draconian conditions to gain access to the funds of rescue, according to the Greek model. It is outrageous to hear that these are loans to help Greece when Greek toiling masses will not see a single euro but will suffer the consequences and penalties.
Greece preannounces the plans for the entire Europe, beginning by the weakest countries, such as Portugal, Spain, Ireland or Italy. The government of Spain and Portugal have already announced a drastic packet of toughening measures for their clash plans. Furthermore, these plans are doomed to go beyond all that because the economic slope down they cause will cause more public deficit and more debt… until the country bleeding and exhausted will no longer be able to pay and so will have to call for stop payment fee.
*Out with the EU*
Greece has provided the evidence that there is no solution inside the EU or within the framework of respect for the basic rules of capitalism. EU has now been revealed as the stark expression of the Europe of the Capital and as an antidemocratic freak that cannot be reformed. The sharpness of the Greek crisis can only be challenged if we declare the non-acknowledgement of the foreign debt, splitting away from the euro and the EU and taking drastic and urgent measures to reorganise economy in the service of the vast majority: expropriating the banks, nationalising the strategic companies, distributing labour, establishing the monopoly of foreign trade and seeking class solidarity of all European workers in a common strife of a workers and popular Europe, for the Socialist United States of Europe.
*We are all Greek Workers*
The Greek conflict is the first great test of forces between the financial capital and the European working class; it has been fortunate enough that this first phase took place in Greece, the country with the most combatant working class on the continent and where trade union bureaucracy finds it difficult to control a workers movement, the grassroots of which have a strong base of classist and combatant left.
Greek workers are a magnificent example of courage and combativity for the entire European working class. They are the ones who are showing us the way to go and deserve as the vanguard that they are the most ample solidarity of the class. We all have to respond to the call of the Greek workers, People of Europe, arise! The struggle of the Greek people is ours, everyones. Support Greece and join forces against the plans of adjustments is the great task of the workers.
*Organise the common resistance on European scale*
Different European trade unions have signed a manifesto called We are all Greek workers where they assert that: In order to save their capitalist system, entrepreneur and shareholders got internationally organised; trade unions must act breaking through the frontiers to impose a different system (…) We hope to advance in the instauration of an alternative trade union network in Europe, open to all the forces willing to fight against capitalism and liberalism. Let us develop and coordinate social struggles and build a common European resistance! It is necessary to confront the crisis with a general strike. We want to build that!
European organisations of the International League of Workers Fourth International (IWL-FI) pledge to support this statement and to take concrete steps in this direction to build a new political and trade union leadership for European workers, absolutely necessary to advance towards the defeat of the bourgeoisie and the establishment of socialism based on proletarian democracy.