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The successes achieved in defending as a united body the common posts formed in many countries including Greece as well as increasing the influence of the socialist programme in these struggles are very modest. In this sense, it is an important task to make a critical analysis of the situation and the role International Communist Movement in this process.

 

01 November 2011 /International Bulletin / Issue 110

 

As the symbol country of the World economic crisis, Greece has witnessed the most magnificent strikes and demonstrations of its close history last month. The second destruction programme that was approved in the parliament under the decision of German-French centred EU and the imposition of IMF was responded by millions of labourers taking to the streets on October 19-20, sieging the parliament and paralysing the production and all services in the country.
The European imperialists behave as one single body in face of the wave of rebellion in Greece, which, in case of any achievement, may become an example for all European workers and labourers and try to save the EU economically and politically by ensuring the euro-zone without discarding Greece. With their support, the Greek bourgeoisie tries to break the resistance of the workers and labourers.
During the wave of rebellion that started after the killing of Alexis Grigoropoulos by the police in 2008, Greece had given the signal of the fact that it is one of the epicentres of the sharpening contradictions between labour and capital in Europe and would become the arena of even bigger resistances in the close future. The latest process of rebellions in the country present maybe the most favourable conditions in the world now for the organisation of a revolution with direct socialist character. In this country, the working class is quite developed in quality and in quantity, the contradictions between labour and capital have become uncovered and naked and having experienced the bourgeois democracy in the most advanced form possible after the fall of the Colonels' Junta in 1974, there is not a question of democracy, unlike the countries of Arab spring. The violence applied upon the resistance of the workers and labourers by the Greek state through the police and other instruments of repression only proves the limits of the bourgeois democracy and the fact that it means dictatorship for the workers and labourers and democracy for the monopoly bourgeoisie. The Junta has already fallen in 1974; the consequence of this has been the present situation of destruction due to being limited in the bourgeois system and the Greek working class and labourers have seen and learnt that through their own experience. In this sense, slogans concerning government changes, law reforms, "democratic measures" and "deep political changes" will not carry the mass movement further and will even fall behind it. There is only one way forward from the present point and one programme, which is socialism.
However, the attitude of KKE and its affiliated trade union PAME taking the parliament under protection pulls the workers and labourers organised in these two organisations away from revolutionary struggle on the one hand, and on the other hand, stands in front of the mass movement that targets the institutions of the bourgeois system and tries to maintain it within the borders of the system. Moreover, this attitude consolidates the image that the "communists stay away from fire" in the eyes of the working and labouring masses; the image created by the revisionist parties which have deeply damaged the idea of socialism especially in Europe. Revisionist forces like KKE who try to restrain the idea of communism within the borders of the system cause that workers and labourers stays distant to the programme of socialism which is the only programme that is able to lead them out of the borders of the bourgeois system. They get the spreading impression that a militant mass movement does not correspond with socialism and communism.
This reaction and distance can be seen in every important mass movement in Europe tending to go beyond traditional trade-unionism/reformism, and very typically in the movement of indignados which has the tendency of excluding any form of organisation and especially political organisations with socialist orientation. This is the most serious deadlock of the workers' and labourers' struggles in Europe. In this sense, it is essential for the revolutionary and communist forces to take active place in these militant struggles; carry the idea of organisation and socialism to these movements and change the negative image among the working class and the labouring masses through its practical stance. The revolutionary and communist forces should carry not only their practical struggle but also their organised identities, slogans and programmes into these movements in a systematically and insistent way but without any attempt of obstination or imposition. Other method would maybe bring faster and broad relation with this mass movement but actually it will not be able to carry this mass movement further.
World revolutionary and communist forces have been tested in the very important mass struggles throughout last one year. The successes achieved in defending as a united body the common posts formed in many countries including Greece as well as increasing the influence of the socialist programme in these struggles are very modest. In this sense, it is an important task to make a critical analysis of the situation and the role International Communist Movement in this process.

 
 

 

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The successes achieved in defending as a united body the common posts formed in many countries including Greece as well as increasing the influence of the socialist programme in these struggles are very modest. In this sense, it is an important task to make a critical analysis of the situation and the role International Communist Movement in this process.

 

01 November 2011 /International Bulletin / Issue 110

 

As the symbol country of the World economic crisis, Greece has witnessed the most magnificent strikes and demonstrations of its close history last month. The second destruction programme that was approved in the parliament under the decision of German-French centred EU and the imposition of IMF was responded by millions of labourers taking to the streets on October 19-20, sieging the parliament and paralysing the production and all services in the country.
The European imperialists behave as one single body in face of the wave of rebellion in Greece, which, in case of any achievement, may become an example for all European workers and labourers and try to save the EU economically and politically by ensuring the euro-zone without discarding Greece. With their support, the Greek bourgeoisie tries to break the resistance of the workers and labourers.
During the wave of rebellion that started after the killing of Alexis Grigoropoulos by the police in 2008, Greece had given the signal of the fact that it is one of the epicentres of the sharpening contradictions between labour and capital in Europe and would become the arena of even bigger resistances in the close future. The latest process of rebellions in the country present maybe the most favourable conditions in the world now for the organisation of a revolution with direct socialist character. In this country, the working class is quite developed in quality and in quantity, the contradictions between labour and capital have become uncovered and naked and having experienced the bourgeois democracy in the most advanced form possible after the fall of the Colonels' Junta in 1974, there is not a question of democracy, unlike the countries of Arab spring. The violence applied upon the resistance of the workers and labourers by the Greek state through the police and other instruments of repression only proves the limits of the bourgeois democracy and the fact that it means dictatorship for the workers and labourers and democracy for the monopoly bourgeoisie. The Junta has already fallen in 1974; the consequence of this has been the present situation of destruction due to being limited in the bourgeois system and the Greek working class and labourers have seen and learnt that through their own experience. In this sense, slogans concerning government changes, law reforms, "democratic measures" and "deep political changes" will not carry the mass movement further and will even fall behind it. There is only one way forward from the present point and one programme, which is socialism.
However, the attitude of KKE and its affiliated trade union PAME taking the parliament under protection pulls the workers and labourers organised in these two organisations away from revolutionary struggle on the one hand, and on the other hand, stands in front of the mass movement that targets the institutions of the bourgeois system and tries to maintain it within the borders of the system. Moreover, this attitude consolidates the image that the "communists stay away from fire" in the eyes of the working and labouring masses; the image created by the revisionist parties which have deeply damaged the idea of socialism especially in Europe. Revisionist forces like KKE who try to restrain the idea of communism within the borders of the system cause that workers and labourers stays distant to the programme of socialism which is the only programme that is able to lead them out of the borders of the bourgeois system. They get the spreading impression that a militant mass movement does not correspond with socialism and communism.
This reaction and distance can be seen in every important mass movement in Europe tending to go beyond traditional trade-unionism/reformism, and very typically in the movement of indignados which has the tendency of excluding any form of organisation and especially political organisations with socialist orientation. This is the most serious deadlock of the workers' and labourers' struggles in Europe. In this sense, it is essential for the revolutionary and communist forces to take active place in these militant struggles; carry the idea of organisation and socialism to these movements and change the negative image among the working class and the labouring masses through its practical stance. The revolutionary and communist forces should carry not only their practical struggle but also their organised identities, slogans and programmes into these movements in a systematically and insistent way but without any attempt of obstination or imposition. Other method would maybe bring faster and broad relation with this mass movement but actually it will not be able to carry this mass movement further.
World revolutionary and communist forces have been tested in the very important mass struggles throughout last one year. The successes achieved in defending as a united body the common posts formed in many countries including Greece as well as increasing the influence of the socialist programme in these struggles are very modest. In this sense, it is an important task to make a critical analysis of the situation and the role International Communist Movement in this process.