'Ελληνική' παρέμβαση στη συγκέντρωση για την 'Dag van Verontwaardigheid' στο Άμστερνταμ, Κυριακή 20/11/2011.
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Dear Friends,
I want to convey a solidarity message from a group of Greek immigrants.
This week, the Greek people commemorated with mass protests the 38th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military dictatorship. Today, 38 years later, the Greek people are struggling against a new dictatorship: the dictatorship of the EU and the IMF.
While the Dutch media and politicians talk about lazy and corrupt Greeks who enjoy high wages and retire at 53, Greek people suffer from poverty, sky-high taxes, massive privatizations and repression. In order to ensure the repayment of the state debt with usurer’s interest rates to the Germans, French and Dutch creditors, salaries and pensions have been reduced by 40%, unemployment has risen to 18% (40% for young workers), the poor Greeks are threatened by losing their homes and public goods, such as public transport, education and health care are given as a gift to the creditors.
The Dutch government tries to convince you that austerity measures are necessary so that the Netherlands does not become Greece. The Rutte-government and the most opposition parties suggest that the workers, the unemployed and the students, must give up their rights and put their hands deep in their pockets in order to calm down the beast of the financial markets.
The truth is that Greece is not the exception but an experiment for Europe. What started in Greece 1.5 years ago, starts now in Italy, Portugal, Spain and Ireland, and will also start soon in the Netherlands. As shown by the latest developments, even democracy has no place in Europe anymore. Referendums are cancelled at the request of the EU and top-bankers of Goldman Sachs become prime ministers.
As we were informed by our Spanish comrades, thousands of Spanish citizens living abroad will not be able to participate in today’s elections because the government didn’t sent them the required papers. Another example …
Dear Friends, in less than a year after the students’ uprising of 1973, the Greek people managed to topple the military dictatorship. Today, the Greek people are fighting side by side with the Take the Square movement in Spain the Occupy movement in the U.S., in the Netherlands and elsewhere, the students’ movement in Chile and the public transport strikers of Amsterdam.
The economic dictatorship of the banks, the EU, the ECB and the IMF that they want to impose all over Europe can be toppled by our joint struggle.
International Solidarity is our answer.
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