Political developments
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against government-capital-EU
Escalation of the attack to increase the exploitation of the working class
In Greece, the profound capitalist crisis of the excessive accumulation of capital; which continues for the fourth year, combined with the crisis in other EU Member States, causes the intense aggression of monopolies and their political representatives and is manifested in the overall antipeoples’ strategy, part of which are also the «Memoranda» signed between the Greek governments, the EU, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Every working class and popular family faces or/ and lives under the threat of mass poverty and deprivation, relative and absolute. Workers, popular strata are driven to despair. Taxes are imposed taxes, which cannot be paid by the people and the health of workers is threatened because of the anti-peoples policies, due to which the popular strata cannot afford even medication, hospitals are shut down, etc. The unemployed, young couples, these who work under flexible working relations, these who make a living being paid with the lowest wages, salaries and pensions, thousands of self-employed and small and medium farmers are in dire straits. Thousands of others will face the same fate in the near future. The deep crisis in combination with monopolies existing in various sectors leads to the shut down of a significant part of small shops. Moreover, the inability to pay back debts to banks creates huge debts and deadlocks for thousands of families of the self- employed. Already thousands have been driven to unemployment.
The EU’s and the government’s policies still leaves farmers to be exploited, to suffer the exploitation of the industrialists, banks, monopolies. These lead to the concentration of land and agricultural production in a few hands The deepening of the capitalist economic crisis and the intensification of the attack of the capital increase class exploitation and with it the inequality the working women face. Thousands of working women work without health insurance. The effects of anti-labour ongoing overthrows have affected women tragically. Many self-employed up to now women have been looking for a job, after the shut down of their shops and are in a painful condition. Moreover all the barbaric measures on labour and education have led large parts of the working youth in deadlocks. Tomorrow the situation for everyone will be even worse if a wave of resistance and organized struggle to stop this ongoing wild attack is not raised. We live at the same time at an era where there are policies that promise a way out of the crisis. The government prepares a new set of harsh measures supposedly for the way out of the crisis. These are measures that strengthen the dictatorship of the capital. Accomplices for this course are all the political and trade union forces aligned to the goals of proofing the competitiveness of the capital and of correcting the EU.
The ruling class and its government with the support of the EU escalates the antipeoples’ attack with the objectives: 1. to promote pre-decided capitalist restructuring aimed at the shielding of the competitiveness of monopolies,
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