The visit paid by Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister of Turkey, to Athens, Greece, for talks with his Greek counterpart George Papandreu in the midst of the dramatic economic crisis and severe class struggle in the latter country was protested in Istanbul on Saturday, 15 May 2010 by a platform of socialist parties including the Initiative for the Revolutionary Workers' Party (DIP), Turkish section of the Coordination for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International. The action was organised on the initiative of DIP.
Build solidarity between the working classes of Greece and Turkey!
Greece is in flames. The world economic crisis of the capitalist system has descended upon the country in extremely intensified form and left the economy face to face with bankruptcy.
The EEK (Workers' Revolutionary Party) of Greece and the DİP (the Initiative for the Revolutionary Workers' Party) of Turkey, both sections of the CRFI in their respective countries, note with disgust the outrageous statement by the Turkish actor Atilla Olgaç concerning his deeds during the Turkish military intervention in Cyprus in 1974. During this statement, made during a TV show to millions of incredulous spectators, the actor confessed to shooting on the foreheadand killing a 19-year old Cypriot prisoner of war whose hands were tied after the latter spat at him and his superior. He went on to say that he killed nine other Cypriots, not elaborating on the details of these cases. Having defended his remarks to Turkish papers during interviews the next day, he then made a turnabout to retract his confession, claiming that he had mixed up the truth with the events he had imagined for a script he was writing. The question of whether the retraction was made under the pressure of Turkish authorities or as a result of the actor's own embarrasment should not overshadow the immense significance of his previous confession.
A new explosive element entered the situation, already destabilized both economically and politically in Greece, particularly after the December revolt: the peasants, who in their vast majority in Greece are small proprietors of land, (owing about 42 acres each peasant family), have rebelled and paralyzed all traffic throughout the country by their road blocks. All the main routes from North to South and from East to West, have been blocked by thousands of tractors. The borders with neighbor countries have blocked too. The peasants of Serres have blocked the border with Bulgaria, the peasants of Kilkis the border with the former Yugoslav Macedonia, the peasants of Evros the land, borders with Turkey.
More than 60 class struggle trade unions, very active during the Greek revolt after the assassination of young Alexis last December, mobilized today, January 22, 2009 about 10.000 workers in Athens in a combative demonstration of solidarity to the Bulgarian immigrant worker and militant trade unionist Kostandina Kuneva who was savagely attacked with sulfuric acid by a death squad on December 22.
Written by EEK - Greek section of the Coordination for the Refoundation of the Fourth International
Thursday, 01 January 2009
The revolutionary year 2009: the revolt in Greece is the first sign of a world in flames!
1. The December 2008 popular revolt in Greece sent the message to the entire world showing in practice what the New Year 2009 will mean for all the oppressors and the oppressed: a Happy New Fear for all the oppressors and exploiters, a New Year of Hope for all the oppressed and exploited!
Today thousands of students, schoolchildren, teachers, university professors, workers marched again in Athens against the State repression and the government of murderers showing clearly that ,as the slogan of the youth says, “Christmas are postponed, the revolt no!”
While the protest marches in working class –popular neighborhoods, attacks on police stations, occupations of schools and faculties but also of cultural centers and radio stations continue, the capitalist State does not stop its repression using the political support not only of the government but also of PASOK and particularly of the Stalinist “Communist” Party-KKE against the so-called “hooligans”.
The night of Saturday the 20th to Sunday, December 21st, the area around the central square of Exarchia and the Polytechnic University of Athens became again the battlefield between the riot police and groups of youth. Earlier, Saturday night at 21.00 pm, at the same hour and place of the assassination of the young Alexis by the Police, a two weeks memorial meeting was held attended by a thousand people. The street itself was renamed and new plates were installed with the name "Alexandros Grigoropoulos Street". The clashes started immediately after the memorial and continued until the morning.
The depth of the
movement shaking two weeks now Greece, after the assassination of the young Alexis by the Police, is clearly
shown also by the fact that artists and creators in the cultural field are
actively involved in the revolt.
Solidarity with the fraternal Greek people in revolt!
Since the murder of a fifteen-year-old youth in Greece on Saturday the 6th of December, the masses have erupted, protesting day and night against the Greek government. This is a revolt in the strict sense of the term! Greece has not seen such a massive revolt since the insurrection of 1944 under Nazi occupation and the Polytechnic revolt of 1973 under the military junta in power between 1967 and 1974.
Great concerns were raised throughout Greece by a second attack by gun two days ago against a 16 years boy, the son of a cadre of PAME / KKE in Peristeri, a working class neighborhood, in the greater region of Athens.
The day appeared initially a very difficult one for a demonstration because of the very bad weather and continuous rain. But despite the rain (later on, the day, fortunately, became sunny and then cloudy from the tear gas of the riot police) a tremendous march of 50.000 students, schoolchildren, workers and organizations of the Left has shaken Athens.
Current developments turn around the strike or rather the 4 hours stoppage in the public sector announced for tomorrow Thursday December 18 by the ADEDY, the National Federation of Public Employees( which is led by PASOK trade unionists but where are present other forces too, including the revolutionary Left and EEK).
This morning started with a very unpleasant surprise for the riot police, the special force against popular mobilizations, which is busy all these days of popular revolt in Greece to attack and brutalize 13-14 years old kids: their central headquarters/caserne in the Kaisariani area, in Athens, was put under siege for hours by a multitude of young people throwing to them stones and Molotov cocktails.
Today Monday, December 15, 10th day for the revolt in Greece after the assassination of the young Alexis Grigoropoulos, at noon and four hours, thousands of young schoolchildren 14-16 years old surrounded the Central Police Headquarters in Athens, in Alexandras Avenue.
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