Greece: From Despair to Resistance

[polly7]

Greece: From Despair to Resistance
By Panagiotis Sotiris

Source: The BulletSunday, February 19, 2012

http://zcommunications.org/greece-from-despair-to-resistance-by-panagiotis-sotiris

On Sunday 12 February 2012 the people of Greece, in demonstrations and street fights all over the country expressed in a massive, collective and heroic way their anger against the terms of the new loan agreement dictated by the EU-ECB-IMF ‘troika’ (Eurpoean Union, European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund). Workers, youth, students filled the streets with rage, defying the extreme aggression by police forces, setting another example of struggle and solidarity.

Greece is becoming the test site for an extreme case of neoliberal social engineering. The terms of the new bailout package from the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the so-called ‘troika’, equal a carpet bombing of whatever is left of collective social rights and represent an extreme attempt to bring wage levels and workplace situation back to the 1960s.

Currently Greece is entering a new phase of the protracted people's war against the policies of the EU-ECB-IMF troika. The 48hr general strike on 10 and 11 February and the mass demonstrations and street clashes on 12 February have become the new turning points in the struggle. The ‘people's war’ is far from over. Facing the danger of an extreme historical backwardness, we refuse to despair. We insist on the ‘windows of opportunity’ for social change the current situation opens. We shall fight to the end.

[dkf]

1. Good luck to them if they think they can preserve any benefits on their own.

Part of me is curious to see how it would turn out, but I think it would be worse than they and I could imagine.

From what I've seen they simply don't have an economy that generates enough to be self sufficient.

[polly7]

2. Yes, I'm afraid it's going to turn out badly for them, too.

All the proposed changes in the new agreement are so drastic. My heart goes out to these people.

[msongs]

3. the Greek people should just default and take what comes free of Euro criminal bankers nt

[Vincardog]

4. BUT BUT BUT if they do that THE WORLD ECONOMY FAILS. What will the Banksters

and Economic rapists do then?

[dkf]

5. Looks like the ECB is keeping them under their grip.