Greek workers are being victimized to pay for the crisis of European capitalism as a whole.
The defense of their social and political rights is a European-wide question,
that requires the mobilization not only of the Greek working class, but of workers
in Germany, France, Britain and the entire continent in a united struggle against capitalism.
The key to the situation in Greece and throughout Europe is the development of an independent revolutionary movement of the working class.
This requires a political break with the unions and their pseudo-left political allies who will do everything in their power
to suppress such a movement and tie workers to the ruling class and its institutions.
Greek workers must organize themselves independently of the unions and their political allies.
They should build action committees to defend jobs and social rights, organize protection against fascist attacks and unite all sections of the working class. They must fight for a workers’ government, which expropriates the major corporations and banks and reorganizes the economy to serve the social needs of the population at large rather than the drive for profit by the international and domestic financial aristocracy.
In order to implement such a program, a new revolutionary party must be established, a Greek section of the International Committee of the Fourth International. The International Committee embodies the historical continuity of the Marxist, Trotskyist movement. It fights for an international socialist program and for the overthrow of the European Union and for the construction of the United Socialist States of Europe.
What way forward for workers
What way forward for workers in Greece?
Greek workers are being victimized to pay for the crisis of European capitalism as a whole.
The defense of their social and political rights is a European-wide question,
that requires the mobilization not only of the Greek working class, but of workers
in Germany, France, Britain and the entire continent in a united struggle against capitalism.
The key to the situation in Greece and throughout Europe is the development of an independent revolutionary movement of the working class.
This requires a political break with the unions and their pseudo-left political allies who will do everything in their power
to suppress such a movement and tie workers to the ruling class and its institutions.
Greek workers must organize themselves independently of the unions and their political allies.
They should build action committees to defend jobs and social rights, organize protection against fascist attacks and unite all sections of the working class. They must fight for a workers’ government, which expropriates the major corporations and banks and reorganizes the economy to serve the social needs of the population at large rather than the drive for profit by the international and domestic financial aristocracy.
In order to implement such a program, a new revolutionary party must be established, a Greek section of the International Committee of the Fourth International. The International Committee embodies the historical continuity of the Marxist, Trotskyist movement. It fights for an international socialist program and for the overthrow of the European Union and for the construction of the United Socialist States of Europe.
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