Stalinists start the slanders
Day 5 of the revolt in Greece
While the clashes between the riot police and the people,
particularly the youth, five days after the killing of the 15 years
old Alexis Grigoropoulos continue without interruption, a General
Strike called by GSEE( General Confederation of Labor) and ADEDY(
National Federation of Public Employs) for December the 10th took
successfully place. The Strike was particularly successful in the
Public, Education, Health, and Transport sectors.
The Prime Minister Karamanlis made a public call and sent an
official letter to the leadership of the Confederation to cancel not
only the march, which traditionally follows the central rally the day
of the General Strike, but the rally in Syntagma Square as well and
the strike itself "because of the tense situation". The trade union
bureaucracy had already cancelled the march and transferred the rally
from the traditional place in front of the headquarters of GSEE to
Syntagma Square, in front of the Parliament "in support of
parliamentary democracy". But the GSEE leadership dominated by PASOK
did not dare to cancel the Strike or the rally, as Karamanlis
demanded, fearing that the mass workers movement will mobilize
independently and against the bureaucrats.
Under the combined pressures of the New Democracy government, of
PASOK, and above all, of the Stalinist KKE which accused the reformist
Synaspismos and its allies in SYRIZA to cover up for the "hooligans
destroying social peace and private property", SYRIZA cancelled its
march and transferred its rally near Syntagma Square.
The Stalinists of KKE( who recently rehabilitated officially not
only Stalin but also the verdict of the Moscow Trials and the purges
of the `30s in the Soviet Union) have become the main slanderers of
the youth revolt calling the young rebels "Talibans", "gangsters",
"drug dealers", " prostitution dealers"(!!), "police agents" etc.
Today in all mass media, the Right and particularly the fascists of
the far right party LAOS praised, quoted approvingly, and repeated ad
nauseam all the despicable slanders of the Gen. Sec. of KKE, A.
Papariga against the revolt.
For the General Strike, they organized their own separate rally
in Omonia Square and then they moved two blocks in the other direction
and dispersed! They were less than 4.000.
So the only march in Athens in the day of the General Strike was
that organized by the far left organizations of MERA( Front of Radical
Front, which includes EEK) and of ENANTIA( United Anti-capitalist
Left), joined by two Maoist groups and the Anti-Authoritarian Movement
(anarchist). Some class struggle sections of
the trade union movement, particularly in the Public sector, Health,
Education, technical engineers etc., including the Federation of the
high schools teachers refused to go neither with the PASOK-led GSEE or
the Stalinists and joined us putting themselves in the first ranks of
our march. It was the most impressive march of the Greek far left for
decades: about 25.000 people! EEK had its strongest contingent for all
its recent history. The Italian TV( which took also an interview by
Savas Michael of EEK) as well as other foreign TV channels have showed
our march- but not the Greek State TV, which nevertheless showed the
tiny rally of GSEE in Syntagma and the Stalinist gathering in Omonia.
There were only small clashes with the riot police during the
march, which, of course, geometrically escalated after the end of the
march, and still continue this hour (around midnight, Greek time)
around the Polytechnic University under occupation. The police use
there tonight also goons of the paramilitary fascist group "Golden
Dawn" - as they already did yesterday in Patras injuring with a knife
a young girl- and threaten to attack also our Independent Action
Center in the occupied Law Faculty in the Athens University.
In the Law Faculty under occupation, after the march, two
General Assemblies took place: a Workers Assembly joined by hundreds
of class struggle trade-unionists and a Student Assembly joined by
representatives from nearly all the student unions of the Athens
University. The traditions of the 1973 Polytechnic uprising against
the CIA junta are revived: at that time too there were a Workers' and
a Students' Assembly coordinating their actions as we do today. The
Independent Action Center is precisely this Coordination.
A Statement was drafted and voted with a series of demands (for
the abolition of anti-trade union, anti-pension, police state
legislations, for wages increases, against privatizations, for
nationalizations under workers control etc.), a call for an indefinite
General Strike to overthrow the government, and a solemn decision for
civil disobedience, demonstrations, strikes etc. against the State of
Emergency prepared by the New Democracy government. The Statement, of
course called also for the immediate release of all arrested, whose
number until now is higher than 150 people, most of them young boys
and girls around 15 years, the first target of this horrendous
capitalist government of kid killers.
Another provocation became public today: the Medical -Legal
Department of the Police wants to issue a verdict declaring the
killing of Alexis .an accident. At the same time the two police
murderers in their deposition in the Interrogator, made public by
their lawyer (a notorious lawyer of the mob), accused their young
victim to be "a nasty hooligan with a disturbed behavior", "kicked out
from his school" (the school rejected officially the slander). This
character assassination- the Second Murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos-
undoubtedly will provoke a new wave of explosions, keeping in mind
that in the forefront of the struggle is 14-15 years schoolchildren.
Tomorrow there will be another student and schoolchildren
demonstration. The same, the day after tomorrow. The mobilization will
not stop until victory.
On December 18, the government budget is voted in parliament
and another General Strike is planned for that day.
Good that Stella is not a dedicated stalinist (although a KKE follower) because this topic would have 100 pages now 
