Plans to "rescue" imposed since 2010 successive unbearable litany of austerity measures that do not end up ravaging the Greek economic system and social fabric of the country. The inventory of social resistance test. ---- For three years, the employee-es that Greek-s suffered a decline in average salary by 45%, official unemployment above 26% and a 20% reduction in pensions of more than a thousand euros. Over 200,000 businesses have gone bankrupt: across the country, the landscape of desolation, with a succession of closed shops, abandoned buildings, construction sites stopped for months... --- Austerity measures deadly ---- Privatization affect both oil and gas companies, water, electricity highways, ports, transport ... The State must raise 19 billion euros by 2015 through asset sales and total of 50 billion by the end of 2020, for the benefit of the financial oligarchy. In early 2012, Parliament voted to abolish 150,000 civil service jobs in 3 years about 750,000. Health spending undergo a decrease of one billion, that of raising a billion and a half. One of the dramatic social consequences of these brutal measures, which reflects the despair of some of the Greek people, it is the exponential increase in suicides. An association Klimaka, was also created to prevent suicides. April 5, 2012, a pensioner was shot in the head in front of the Greek Parliament and concluded his letter: " I believe that one day young people with no future take up arms and go hang the traitors of the people on the Syntagma Square, as did the Italians in 1945 to Mussolini on the Piazzale Loreto in Milan. " Unstable political situation In this context of relentless attack, the last legislative elections had redesigned the Greek political scene with a right-wing government led by New Democracy, forced into an alliance of convenience with PASOK (Socialist Party) and the Democratic Left, slavishly applying measures austerity. Several corruption erupted, ending discredit the political class. The work has led to the conviction in February of the former mayor of Thessaloniki (Greece's second city), a member of New Democracy, and in March a former Minister of Defence member of PASOK. On March 6, three former ministers (two conservative, socialist) were charged, too, because their reported income did not justify their wealth. They face up to ten years in prison. But on the left, the dynamics had brought the radical left coalition SYRIZA to 27% in the June 2012 elections barely translate politically, because this organization torn internally neither has a strong network of local representatives or to a real boost social struggles. Particularly worrying sign, racist and neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, which has 18 members of parliament and relay at the police and mass media, take this situation to say politically, especially in the street: soup kitchens segregationist, militias "securitization" of certain neighborhoods, aggression activists left and especially punitive expeditions against the immigrant-es. Solidarity against the far right For migrants and migrant-are entered via Turkey (the Greek State has also started to build a wall on the border) or through perilous crossings boats, Greece is a gateway to the rest of Europe but turns out to most cul-de-sac where they and they suffer police harassment and violence from the extreme right. Racist crimes are becoming more common. In this regard, Human Rights Watch published in July 2012 a damning 99-page report entitled The hatred in the streets xenophobic violence in Greece [ 1 ]]. Associations and political organizations to effectively organize support immigrant-es and fight, with a strong anti-fascist tone against the xenophobic climate that developed in Greece. An anti-racist demonstration took place January 19, 2013 in Athens against racist violence and for the regularization of undocumented migrants. Labor struggles and solidarity networks Union struggles remain relatively marginalized and face police repression. The long strike and emblematic of the steelworkers Halyvourgia Ellados factory in the suburbs of Athens [ 2 ] in 2012 has never received such practical solidarity of the single trade union federation, the General Confederation of Greek Workers ( GSEE), except that of the militant Front of all workers (Pame), linked to the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) union. And strike in January of workers of the Athenian metro only knew solidarity of several base unions which had called for walkouts support against the requisition and police violence. In addition to almost daily protests in the country, the struggles are also growing through informal networks of solidarity and disobedience movement "We will not pay" actions in neighborhoods, parallel system of free health care ... The anarchist movement has a strong presence in Greece but scattered into affinity groups. Early March took the founding congress of the Greek Anarchist Federation. And our fellow anarcho-syndicalist Initiative Roccinante are actively involved in the struggle with the main axis of the development of autonomous union structures. Faced with the social anger rumbling, like the recent mobilizations in Spain and Portugal are the signs of a will to fight which will be realized in the development and radicalization of struggles in Greece and throughout Europe. Marcos Vega (AL Paris North-East) [ 1 ] available [ 2 ] see [www.bastamag.net-> www.bastamag.net "class =" spip_out "> www.hrw.org.
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donderdag 23 mei 2013
(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #227 - Greece: 'One day, young people without future will power " (fr)
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