GREECE – September 14th 2015

Tsipras quit as Prime Minister and triggers a new election again: a new blackmailing against the exploited to apply the slavering and starving plans already agreed with New Democracy, Merkel, IMF and the imperialist bankers

After 8 months since Syriza took into office…
The new call for elections is the continuity of the trap that meant the Syriza and Merkel’s referendum and a fraud to take away masses from the revolutionary street-struggle.  We are facing a new ultimatum of Troika on Greek masses: “either you vote for Tsipras or the attack will be worse”

It is a lie! Whoever wins either Tsipras or New Democracy, the attack is the same one
They already voted it together in the parliament of the imperialist bankers and together with Merkel in the European Union behind people’s back

Let`s defeat the new electoral trap of Troika and Syriza’s merchants of illusions

Los gobiernos y el régimen infame de los armadores y los banqueros griegos, representantes de la UE y el FMI, ya hace rato le han declarado la guerra a los trabajadores…

The governments and the vile regime of the Greek ship-owners and bankers, those representatives of the EU and IMF have already declared the war on workers since a long time before…
It`s need to prepare immediately the Greek working class to a decisive fight!

The CP, from the trade unions and Central trade unions they lead, keeps the working class paralyzed after 32 general strikes and huge combats of the struggles during 7 years…
The Left currents discuss what electoral front create at the left side of Syriza and don’t pose to the exploited an immediate revolutionary action road to follow. They pose “to take the “NO Referendum” ”till the end”…

The “NO- till the end”, like the plebiscite and this current deceived elections are a true fraud!
What we need to take till the end is the revolution the exploited started in 2008

To stop the Troika`s attack, to recover the salary and get work…
It is a need to prepare the revolutionary general strike to defeat in the streets the Greek regime of the ship-owners, NATO, and the imperialist Maastricht!

The working class must vote for his self-defence!

Let`s Vote for a congress of delegates with rank and file’s mandate of the entire worker movement, trade unions, the workplaces’ committees, the pensioners, immigrants and rebel youth to confront the electoral trap and defeat the pact Merkel-Tsipras that has declared war on Greek workers!

Let`s Vote for organizing the self-defence committees and soldier committees!

Let`s Vote for “All of them (exploiters and their politicians) must go away!
No one of them must stay!”

Let`s Vote for the expropriation without payment of all the Greek bankers, the Ship-owners and all the capitalists!

Let`s vote for a common fight side by side the German and European workers for the 36 hour-labour-shift per week without unemployment, for the pension and a decent job in accordance with the basic food Basket!

Let`s vote for fighting together with our brothers of Maghreb and Middle East brutally plundered and repressed by the imperialist oil companies, the US Pirates as well as the Maastrich’s Europe! The enemy is at home! We are all political refuggees! We are all a single world working class!

Let`s vote for defeating NATO, and his military bases settled in the Balkans under the command of the murderous Greek generals! Let`s vote for defeating the counterrevolutionary pacts of the bankers and the Greek ship-owners with the Zionist-fascist state of Israel!

Let`s vote against the deceit that means “the left fronts” of”wide range or close” on the part of the administers and paramedics of the rotten Greek capitalist system!

Let`s vote for the power of the workers and soldiers ‘councils! Let`s vote for a socialist and revolutionary Greece!

Let`s vote for the spark of Athens to set on fire Europe, and set on fire again all the revolutions of Maghreb and Middle East!

Let`s vote for overthrowing the imperialist Maastricht and for the Socialist United States of Europe!

With a new call for elections, once again Greece is the scenario of a monumental fraud against the working class and exploited. 

On July 5th, the trap of the referendum was carried out; it was imposed by the Tsipras government to legitimize the bourgeois regime`s institutions and prevent masses from the revolutionary upsurge when Greece was entering to be in default and was negotiating the bailout of the debt.
It was a vile trap because in such referendum no matter if either YES or No wins, since the Greek banker and imperialists pirates of Germany and the EU always would be the winners. The Tsipras NO meant to apply the Merkel plan but negotiating “better conditions” while the “right-wing” New Democracy`s YES meant to apply the same plan but without any modification.
The NO won and Tsipras made a pact with Merkel. And them Syriza and New Democracy voted altogether in the parliament such plan that was a savage attack against the working class and would mean worse hardships for masses.

The fraud of the plebiscite was unmasked before the eyes of the masses. Layers of the vanguard of the working class and exploited took the streets against the Parliament confronting Syriza as happened on July 16th. Facing this situation and as a continuity of such fraud, Tsipras resigned as Prime Minister on August 20. But he did it after guaranteeing that the creditors of Greek could collect over 20 billion euros including first the imperialist Greek bankers as well as the EU pirates. The president Pavlopoulos dissolved the parliament and named Vasilifi Tahnou as interim Prime Minister-PM, the top Supreme Court Judge, and called for early elections next September 20th.

They want to lead exploited to cast a vote, once again towards the polls, the third time in a year with the aim to keep masses outside the streets to keep them far away from the revolution’s path. We are witnessing a series of traps and parliamentary diversions against workers and exploited to continue taking them away from streets and that cannot restart their struggle and for the ruling classes and imperialist bourgeois regime to have legitimacy to apply their redouble attack against masses.

They call for new elections before the implementation of the new plan of attack against workers; they call for elections again before the results and the catastrophe consequences of such plan can be visible; a plan of attack against workers agreed between Tsipras and Merkel in favour of Bundesbank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Bank, IMF, bankers, big ship-owners and he Greek transnationals. A pact of brutal attack and merciless war against masses so that workers and exploited go on paying for the imperialist parasites ‘crisis, as they have been paying for the crisis during the last years. 

Tsipras calls on Greek workers to vote for him again and says: “this pact with Merkel is the best I could get…if the right-wing New Democracy wins, something even worse would come, the “original” Merkel`s plan”. A complete blackmail because no matter if either Syriza or New Democracy wins since the same plan would be applied. Syriza and New Democracy have the same program against masses which was voted by both in the parliament because both play for the same team: for the Greek bankers, the EU, and IMF against the exploited.
Today Tsipras has put a gun on the masses ‘head. His resignation and call for new elections are a vile extortion for the working class and exploited to kneel down and “accept” keep paying with blood, sweat and tears the millions of dollars robbed by the imperialist Greek, German, and US parasites

The “new Left” in action: after supporting Syriza, after sustaining the referendum… now by electoral fronts they are ready to subordinate masses to this new trap

Today all the left currents have put at the order of the day in their debates the Greek question. But what is the Greek and worldwide left discussing a lot? How to organize the fight against such electoral trap and Merkel-Tsipras pact? How to set up the revolution in Greece and the entire Europe as the only solution at disposition of the exploited? How to conquer –against the clock- a Worker Congress of the entire Greek working class and exploited to coordinate in single revolutionary struggle side by side the German proletariat against the imperialist Maastricht’s pirates?
No. The only concern of the worldwide Left is which electoral front to settle for the next elections.

Three electoral fronts at the “left” side of Syriza have been stablished.
One of these fronts is the “Left Platform” of Syriza, the 29 deputies “opponents” to Tsipras who have broken with Syriza and have created an organization called “Popular Unity”, and  two Stalinist parties former members of Antarsya (a coalition that claim to be “anticapitalist”)  have also endorsed to them. This electoral list is openly a bis-idem Syriza.
Another front is Antarsya, which includes parties of British SWP and French NAP, as well as EEK (a party linked to PO of Argentina).
Finally it is KKE (Greek CP) with its own list.

Thus, all these currents support and legitimize this new elections called by the imperialist Greek regime to once again impose a new fraud against the working class of Greece and the entire Europe; when it is very clear that there are more than enough conditions so the working class and exploited people can stand up in maneuvers of revolutionary combats to defeat the scam.

All these parties and organizations of the renegades of Trotskyism and the “anti-capitalist left” in the electoral programs do not even mention the idea of calling neither to fight in the streets nor to defeat capitalists’ attack or their government with revolution. We are before a “new left” that constantly tells workers all over the world that they do not have to take power to win their demands; it says workers can solve their sufferings or “restrain” the retrenchment launched by capitalists, within the frames of bourgeois imperialist regimens.

It is not by chance that all those currents supported Syriza, whether critically or unconditionally… Because all of them agree with Tsipras’ party in the fact that working class does not revolution to live and that is why they do not pose any alternative to Syriza, to which they do not call to confront with the revolutionary fight in the streets.

Thereby they all voted together with Tsipras for NO in the referendum. Today, beyond shades, they all have as “banner of fight” in their electoral campaign the slogan of “NO up to the end”; i.e. “taking NO up to victory against Germany and Troika”. But, what does “take NO up to the end” mean? That “NO” is only half way?

The left keeps covering Tsipras. NO in the referendum was applied and fully up to the end! We insist, if SI would had won in the referendum, the winner would had been New Democracy and Merkel plan would had been applied. But NO won, as world left wanted. And after NO’s victory Tsipras took it up to the end and closed an agreement with Merkel and applied her plan.

The working class does not need a “NO up to the end”, but taking towards victory the revolution started in 2008

Enough taking the masses to the cliff of the institutions of Greek imperialist bourgeois regime! Against the “NO up to the end”, there must be the program of “revolution up to the end”, to victory, because we must expropriate without compensation the Greek bankers, ship operators and all capitalists; because that is how we can guarantee jobs, wages, health, education, housing to all workers of Greece; because we must smash the officer caste of the Greek army of NATO and its military base in the Balkans.
In Greece there are two roads. On one hand there is the “new left” that wants to take us to the trap of the bourgeoisie and strangle the revolution. On the other hand are us, the ones who want to fight –and are doing it- to take up to the end in Greece and all over the world the revolutionary battle started in 2008, in the Politecnical and with the working class facing Stalinism, the bourgeoisie and Greek imperialist government; their fight was part of the combats of the working class of the Spanish State, France, Rumania, Europe and the world.

Greek “new left” -getting advices from their partners of NAP (France), SWP (England), FIT (Argentina)- spent 30 days discussing which electoral front they should do at the left of Syriza… whether with “Popular Union” or without it… whether “open” or “close”… and all this while the attack against the working class has increased ten thousand times. They are not preparing the working class to join forces in a decisive fight. The imperialist bourgeois regime of Troika wants to conquer legitimacy with these fake elections to attack the masses fiercely. The “new left” only knows how to discuss electoral fronts and not how to organize and prepare the working class –since now- for a decisive battle against its executioners.

While they were discussing their electoral fronts, they cover the back to the Stalinist wing of this “new left” in Greece, the KKE (Greek CP). They called it to make an electoral front; they told it to stop being “sectarian” and “self-proclamatory”. But Greek CP leads the unions. It is something else besides “self-proclaimatory”. It the one that guarantees keeping the working class static so the bourgeoisie and Troika attack all their conquers. Sectarian” and “self-proclamatory”? The “new left” hides that the CP had immobilize the answer of the unions so Troika’s plans be applied. This is why it disguised as rrrrrrrrred in the elections.

The KKE show itself as “opposition” since Syriza’s government took control; it even denounced the referendum. It leads unions and trade union PAME. But all this time they have not called a single action in the streets against Merkerl-Tsipras pact, to which it say it confronts, while they present to the new elections, being part of the new trap against exploiters.

The unions and trade union led by Greek CP, which today poses as “leftist” and “radicalized”, had in their hands the chance of calling a Congress of all European Unions to defeat capitalists attack and unify the European working class.

When they did was to close any road to decisive unity of workers against imperialist Maastricht. In their European congresses they announced a “general strike” that never came. All they did was a demonstration with 1000 leaders to Brussels to the European Parliament in 2010. All European trade unions called to “regulate the retrenchment”, “conquer a more social Europe”… and there they have the “social Maastricht”: workers without pensions, longer shifts and millions unemployed.

Miserables! All these years the European working class lost most of the conquers. They have many reasons and a common enemy to unify their fight.
In Greece, bourgeoisie concentrated their forces to attack the entire working class, from the Russian hills to Portugal. They have also concentrated their forces in Ukraine to smash the rebel masses of Donbass and impose the plans of semi-colonization of IMF in the East.

The tragedy is that European working class, for the betrayal of their leadership, cannot concentrate their forces, neither in Athens nor in Donbass, in order to launch a revolutionary counteroffensive from there. There were and are plenty of forces for it. The cowardice of the leadership prevented it.
Greek CP and its trade union had many opportunities since the fraud of the referendum –which it said it confronted- until today, to call a Union and Workers Organizations Congress of Europe to confront the brutal attack of the EU and Maastricht against workers and open the road to fight for boycott against this new electoral trap; they refused. And they still do, because it would mean conquering the solidarity of the European working class to defeat Merkel’s and Tsipras’ plan, their electoral scams, which are opening the road to deepen retrenchment against the European working class.

In this job of dividing – from the unions- the fight of the working class in Europe, Communist Parties are covered by renegades of Trotskyism and all socialimperialist countries of Europe that support them by left and say nothing about their betrayals when the CPs lead unions and trade unions all over Europe. Greece proves it. Calling the Greek CP -that strangled 32 general strikes of the working class- “sectarian” and “ultraleft” is not made by a teller, but a liar.

It is clear then that after the scandalous fraud of the referendum and the exposing of Syriza and Tsiprasm there are more than enough conditions to organize a decisive fight of the working class and its organizations, together with the rebel youth, against the fraud and electoral trap of Syriza, New Democracy and Merkel, which proved to be the same before millions of exploited of Greece and Europe.

The road to boycott this elections was open. Conditions to set up united front bodies of the masses to fight were more than matured since 2008… after 32 general strikes. What else are the “new left” of the world and Greece’s going to ask to the Greek working class? It never missed any call to a decisive fight. There were more than enough conditions to re-group the working class and confront and defeat the fraud and electoral trap of Tsipras and Merkel. There were more than enough conditions to prevent it.

The “new left” supports, in last instance, this new electoral trap against the masses, as the ones that has been setting up the Greek regime to take them from the fights in the streets. This happened with PASOK, then Syriza and now… again with Syriza and the “new left”, which only argues about electoral fronts within the infamous regime of Troika and Greek imperialist bankers.

This policy of class collaboration of the new and old left prevented the revolution from starting and stands up… But there is no time to waste! A new war and offensive against the masses is here. New retrenchments are being prepared. Capital has no limits to save from its own crisis. All we have to do is look to the other side of the Mediterranean Sea to realize how far the imperialist bourgeoisie is ready to go in the plunder of the oppressed peoples. This is how the Eastern Europe workers are being treat…and the ones of the imperialist powers.

Workers and exploited people must vote in self-defense!

Against the power and infamous regime of Troika, let’s vote to set up exploited’s power, of workers’ and soldiers’ councils!

Let’s set up the Greek working class in war against their executioners!

Let’s prepare the revolutionary general strike to expel everyone, not anyone left!

Let’s open the road to victory of a socialist workers revolution!

It is time that the working class and exploited people vote in self-defense. It is time that we vote for ourselves.

Let’s vote delegates in the factories; let’s vote delegates of immigrants and workers who are arriving from Maghreb and Middle East running away from genocides and massacres; let’s vote delegates of the rebel youth; let’s vote delegates from the retired workers; let’s vote delegates from the unemployed workers; let’s vote delegates from the renters; let’s vote delegates from the soldiers… let’s vote in a big WORKERS CONGRESS to confront this new electoral trap, to fight and defeat Merkel-Tsipras pact and to take back the road for everybody out, nobody left.

Workers must vote for ourselves, in self-defense, against bankers who stole 300 billion dollars. Let’s expropriate the expropriators!
Let’s disregard the debt with EU, IMF, Bank Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Greek bankers!
Let’s expropriate without compensation and under workers control all bankers! Let’s expropriate without compensation and under workers’ control the TNC ship operating companies! Out with IMF!
Down with the pact of Merkerl-Tsipras! Down with the pacts and agreements signed by capitalists and their governments of Maastricht, EU and IMF!

Break with NATO and disarm the murderous officer caste of the Greek Coronels!
Out with Greek Generals of NATO from Ukraine, who kill the workers of Donbass! Out with the Greek military base in the Balkans!

Let’s set up self-defense committees and workers’ militia!

Out with Frontex, European border police! Dissolution of the murderous police! Immediate closure of detention camps in the border! Workers and popular courts to punish the killers of Alexis, Foundas, Pavlos Fyssas and all immigrant workers attack the fascist Golden Dawn and murderous police!
Freedom to Nikos Romanos and all Greek political prisoners!

Let’s return to the road of revolution of 2008! Let’s vote for Revolutionary General Strike!

Let’s vote that the “spark in Athens sets up Europe in fire again”!
The attack against the masses in Greece is an attack against the German and European working class

If exploiters impose the plans against the masses in Greece, they will have green light to keep stealing all the conquers and deepen the retrenchment against German and European workers.
This is why fighting –in self-defense- to prevent the defeat of the Greek masses and confront the electoral trap is a task of all the workers of Europe; first of all the German workers fighting against Merkel and their own imperialist bourgeoisie.

Merkel and Tsipras join forces against workers of Greece and Germany. Imperialist Greek bankers, partners of Goldman Sachs, made a pact with German Bundesbank.
It is time we conquer the unity of the Greek workers with their class brothers and sisters of Germany and Europe!

There are more than enough conditions for it. Today German and European workers are marching supporting Syrian workers who arrive to the “old continent” running away from the genocide of Al-Assad, commanded by imperialism. That’s the road to follow!

Anyone who can see the huge solidarity of the European working class with their brothers and sisters of Syria, will see that there were and there are conditions to unify the exploited people of Europe in a single fight against imperialist Maastricht. A child dead in a Turkish beach exposed not only those who supported Al-Assad’s murderous regime, but also those who said that there were not conditions to set up a fight of the entire European working class against Maastricht. There is plenty support of the European working class. What is missing is a leadership at the same level and their willing to fight.
There were more than enough conditions and willingness of the European working class to unify the fights in the old continent with their brothers and sisters of the colonies and semi-colonies. Nobody can deny this anymore. The leaderships of the working class prevent the unity of the exploited people of Europe against imperialist Maastricht.

As the coasts of Europe arefilled withchildren, women and men killed by this rotten capitalist system and its imperialist companies which loot the peoples of the Maghreb and the Middle East, the European working class and the exploited masses demonstrate all their willingness to fight and their classsolidarity with the political refugees fleeing from the murderous regime of Al-Assad,from the US invasion of Afghanistan, from invaded Yemen and slaughteredEgypt. What would the European working class not be able to do if its organizations called itto starring in a decisive fight against the brutal attack of the imperialist Maastricht, which they themselves are also suffering?

Syriza’s"Summer schools" have gone for good. "Deliberations" of "anti-capitalist" parties all over the world have ended as well as their lofty debates over whether "enclosed or broad fronts". Words, just words! Concretely, they have taken from the masses the possibility of a decisive struggle to deal with this electoral trap, and it was done by the same people who yesterday subordinated them to the trap of the plebiscite.

The rebel youth, which suffers in jail for their brave fight against the Government of Syriza and the facists gangs of Golden Dawn, have called to confront this electoral trap and ask the masses to turn their backs to the vendors of illusions,the Greek left. We affirm that this position is correct and courageous. We accompany it, and call the global working class to support it, make it theirs and spread it among all the exploited of the world. Because there are enough brave voices who yearn to decisively deal with this infamous regime of the Troika and the creeping left of the Greek imperialist regime.

The frontbetween Antarsya and EEK, proclaiming itself "anti-capitalist", has the obligation to prove in this electoral process which it proclaims in words in its electoral agreement, expressed in its statement of September 3rd, 2015. They call to "fight for a euro zone that has an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, character embraced in the cooperation of the working classes and the popular masses of Europe and their movements in a modern socialist and Communist direction".
Why waiting to do all of this in the future, as a statement of good intentions, and not now? If they have evenan electoral tribune from which to turn their backs on this trap and call to organize, together with the trade unions and all fightinglabor organizations and the rebel youth, a showdown on the streets against the Covenant  of Tsipras, Merkel and New democracy.
The fact is, they have located themselves as a new, "redder" Syriza, but are also the supporters of the same regime.
The EEK and Antarsya have just signed in common a program "for socialism, communism... in defense of the democratic rights of the working class and youth"... though they don’t say a word about more than one dozen of young Greeks who are in prisons for confronting the fascists of Golden Dawn. This silence prevents them from speaking in the name of socialism, because silencing that Syriza is keeping in jail the best of the Greek rebel youth amounts to giving the right to the repressorState of the Troika and its Government to have hostages in its dungeons.
The front of the EEK and Antarsya is "leading the NO vote until the end". They are "a consistent Syriza for the NO vote"... They are leading the masses to the dead-end of frauds and electoral traps. And if not so, they have to demonstrate it, as well as Popular Unity... and also the KKE, which heads the main unions of Greece. They have all the conditions to organize a great fight and a new grouping of the working class. But, to do so, they must break with the bourgeoisie and the infamous regime of Greek capitalism, the representative of the Troika. They must declare war to the bourgeois state. The way is none other than setting up bodies of dual power of self-organized masses.
The starting point for this is to denounce the fraudulentreferendum of yesterday and the cynical electoral trap of today, which only comes to legitimize the memorandum by Merkel, Tsipras and New Democracy against the Greek exploited.  The "new left", to the left of Syriza, is going after its steps. Their vulgar parliamentary cretinism only competes with Tsipras’. After 32 General Strikes, saying that "the great deeds of the Greek working class in these years are the victory of Syriza and the NO vote in the plebiscite" is to become aopportunist and pseudo-democratic"small Syriza.” The alternative of fascism or communism is preparing accelerated in Greece.
Reformism unmasks at every step. Syriza did it in 6 months. Struggling to put up a revolutionary leadershipis already a question of live and death. The European working class and their willingness to fight give a handicap favoring the truly revolutionary forces to group their numbers. And that they will make fighting recklessly for setting up suitable bodies of self-organization of the masses to confront the brutal onslaughts of the capitalists which for years they come bearing, which are not only economic, but also a political (as the ongoingblackmail) and military ones, as the fascist blows against the youth, the workers and in particular the immigrants.

It is not late, yet with all these forces, for putting up a front of struggle to battle against the attack of the capitalists, their regime, the Tsipras Government and that which will emerge from the electoral trap. The road to victory is on the streets. We must prepare the revolutionary general strike! Now there's no time for parliamentarian speeches!
If Antarsya and the EEK ask for the vote to the left wing of the working class, they should be up to it. That they call to put up a real fighting front to defeat the electoral trap in the streets and put up the bodies of dual power of the exploited. If they ask for the vote of the most combative and fearless of the working class and the Greek youth, so they must stop flirting with the KKE and expose it for what it is: the bureaucracy of trade unions. If they ask for the vote to fight for socialism, at least be consistent democrats and organize a fight alongside the rebel youth for freedom to the prisoners, who had the courage to confront the fascist guard of Golden Dawn.
The direction they have taken is leading them directly to fill–a little more to the left- the vacuumleft by Syriza. It’s an empty space that also Popular Unitywants to deal with. Syriza has gone with New Democracy. There are two extremes, left and right, from the same rope which attempts to strangle the working class. 
Enough is enough! The combat is in the streets. Let's denounce fraud and the electoral trap and prepare a great fight of the exploited!

The situation has not been defined yet. By the nature of their leaderships, a new offensive of the Greek masses is bogged down. Though, due to the predisposition to the fight of the European working class, the last word has not been said.
The alternative is clear. Either the European working class binds and declares war to Maastricht; or all the forces of the bankers and capitalist regimes will focus on Greece and Ukraine for a defeat to hit exemplary both revolutionary processes that are ongoing.
The European working class should look in the mirror of how imperialism did to choke the revolutions of the Maghreb and the Middle East. It focused on Syria and crushed it to give a warning; to cut the chain of revolutions that progressed from Tunisia to Jerusalem and settle its counter-offensive. Siren chants of the left today in Greece and Syriza are only meant to disrupt and demobilize the masses and prepare the conditions for future counter-revolutionary hits of Capital.
No time to lose! All the forces of the world working class and the revolutionary workers attention must be placed in Greece! The exploited of the world need to start already the European revolution.

Carlos Munzerand James Sakala
For the International Executive Committee of the Collective for the Re-Foundation of the Fourth International - FLTI