statement by the Communist Tendency of Syriza: HISTORIC VICTORY OF THE LEFT IN GREECE - FIRST TIME IN HISTORY A PARTY WITH ITS ROOTS IN THE GREEK COMMUNIST MOVEMENT HAS COME TO POWER! Read here the initial estimate of the Communist Tendency for the outcome of todays electoral battle and this historic victory of the Left. A SYRIZA-KKE agreement is the only way to form a stable self-standing Left government able to implement a radical, socialist programme. This historic opportunity must not be missed! The 25 January 2015 proved to be a historic day, not only for the Greek people but also for the European and international working class. For the first time in the country of the developed Western capitalist world, it is possible to form a majority government with its roots in the Left - communist movement, despite and against the persistent and constant attempt by domestic and foreign capital to thwart this prospect. Todays historic victory of SYRIZA is a dramatic change in the correlation of forces between the working class and capital in Greece, that is reasonably to be expected to express itself throughout Europe given the crisis of capitalism globally. The cumulative share of the vote by parties with roots in the communist movement (SYRIZA, and KKE) - with the decisive protagonist being SYRIZA - a time when the electoral influence of the traditional bourgeois party, New Democracy, is disintegrating - reflects the class consciousness of the vast majority of working people, and the abandonment of bourgeois parties by a surprisingly large section of the petty bourgeois, who having gone through the painful experience of the crisis and the austerity Memoranda are no longer under the sway of their deeply held illusions about the merits of capitalism. The vote in todays historic election campaign was clearly one based on class. The significant electoral difference between SYRIZA and New Democracy that arose in large urban centres, where workers, the unemployed, low level pensioners, those petty bourgeois layers that are crushed by the crisis have voted on the basis to punish the parties of what now they perceive as representing their class enemy: the bourgeois parties, which with their policies have only spread more poverty and unemployment. But apart from this historic victory, the current election result, above all, presents a unique historic opportunity for the Left. Should the formation of a self-standing Left governement be possible, it would be able to bring an end and reverse the effects of austerity, to also denounce the public debt that is the yoke on Greek society, and to realise the strategic aim of the communist movement which is to overthrow the capitalist system and the acheive the socialist transformation of Greece and Europe. The working masses have already demanded profound social change with their spectacular shift towards SYRIZA and its meteoric rise from a party which garnered 4% to now becoming the primary political force. SYRIZAs large share of the vote and the notable growth trend of KKEs influence particularly in large urban centres, indicates that the founding socialist ideas and principles of the Left, not only are no longer taboo for the majority of society, but that they are actually approching these ideas with considerable sympathy. This day allows, if not demands, celebration on the part of the thousands o Left activists across the country. After decades of persecutions and political marginalisation of the communist movement, the formation of a self-standing Left government is now feasible. But tomorrow, for all conscious Left militants, the celebrations should give way to the organised political struggle. The Communist Tendency of SYRIZA calls for this fight to be carried out on the basis of the following political slogans - demands: Self-standing Left government! No collaboration with ANEL (Independent Greeks) or other bourgeois parties; the KKE is the only natural ally of SYRIZA at present! The historic opportunity for the Left cannot to be missed! There must be a SYRIZA-KKE agreement on the basis of a radical, socialist programme! No retreat from the radical commitments contained in the Thessaloniki programmei - Immediate implementation and completion of anti-capitalist - socialist measures! The Greek ruling class must be entirely disarmed before starting the war against a Left government: this requires the socialisation of the banking system and key levers of the economy - the mobilisation of workers to smash any attempt on the part of capitalists and their faithful servants in the state to prevent the implementation of a Left programme! To disarm the Troika: to liberate the people from the yoke of predatory debt through unilateral action - Call for European workers active solidarity towards a Greek Left government and for them to fight for the direct election of leftist, socialist governments across Europe for the purpose of instituting a Europewide Federation of Socialist States!
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 01:30:13 +0000
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