Greece: Down with the government of murderers!

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Down with the government of murderers!

Common statement of anti-capitalist left organizations
OKDE-Spartakos

We, the organizations of the anticapitalist Left that sign this text,
want to condemn the murder, in cold blood, of 16 year old Alexis
Grigoropoulos by a police special guard in the evening of December 6th.
Our answer will be to resist and to keep fighting to overthrow the
policy of police oppression, austerity and racism


We salute the demonstrations against the government of murderers all
over Greece. In our opinion the reason for what happened is not the
“extreme zeal”, or the “loss of temper” or the “lack of training” of a
police special guard but the whole policy of the New Democracy government.

It is a policy that not only reinforces police oppression and
legitimizes the use of lethal weapons against demonstrators, but also
privatizes the Ports and Olympic Airlines, attacks social security and
the rights of students.

It is the policy of police beatings of students, of the kidnappings of
immigrants from Pakistan, of illegal interceptions of phone
communications and of racist attacks that lead to the death of
refugees that came here looking for asylum and a better future.

It is the policy of special “antiterrorist” legislation, of full
compliance to the measures adopted by the EU against democratic
liberties and against immigrants.

It is the policy of the new legal framework for the Universities, of
legalizing Private Universities. It is the policy of lower wages and
rising taxes. Amidst an economic crisis the government is trying on
the one hand to offer billions of euros to the Banks and on the other
to find scapegoats either in radical youth or in immigrants.

After the brutal murder the government has chosen the path of police
repression. That is why police anti-riot squads attacked those who
were demonstrating. The Socialist Party, PASOK, has offered his
consent to this policy. The message is simple: the government will
enforce its policy at any cost, a policy that will make the workers
pay for the economic crisis, by means of austerity, flexible work,
privatizations, implementation of the EU policies.

The anger of the demonstrators is fuelled by the policies of the
government, of the forces of capital, of the EU. That is why the
protest must grow stronger. We must meet in the streets with the
struggling workers, farmers and students. We will not pay for their
crisis. Today anger is not enough. What is needed is collective and
militant struggle in every workplace, every neighborhood, in order to
transform them into places of resistance and overthrow the government
and its policy.

Down with the New Democracy government of murderers and its policy

Capital must pay for its crisis, not the workers and youth.

Let’s escalate the struggle for our rights

The ministers that are responsible must resign

The police must be disarmed, police forces must keep away from
demonstrations, and Police Special Forces must be disbanded.

Release all people arrested during the demonstrations.

Repeal “antiterrorist”? and authoritarian laws

8/12/2008

The organizations of the Greek anticapitalist Left : ARAN (Left
Recomposition), ARAS (Left Anticapitalist Group), EKKE (Revolutionary
Communist Movement of Greece), EEK (Workers Revolutionary Party),
OKDE, OKDE-Spartacus (4th International), SEK (Socialist Workers
Party), NAR-N.K.A. (New Left Current-Youth Communist Liberation), K.O.
Anasyntaxi (Communist Organization Regroupment), K.A. (Communist
Renewal), EN.ANTI.A (United Anticapitalist Left), ME.R.A. (Front of
Radical Left)

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