International Bureau
The brutal murder of the 15-year-old Alexis Gregoropoulos, on Saturday December 6, in the centre of Athens by a policeman who cold-bloodedly shot him, was the fatal result of the Greek governments’ policy that in the last years has strengthened state terror against the people’s, working and youth movement (high school students, university students and unemployed young people) as well as against immigrants. The absolute responsibility belongs to the current right-wing government and the previous social democratic, that both encouraged the murderous police troops and riot police forces to shoot, beat and arrest demonstrators, strikers, young people and immigrants while they made a callus legislative frame of terror laws and orders, and at the same time left the killers in previous similar cases go unpunished.
The uprising of the Greek youth and a large part of the workers and the Greek people, the mass protest of thousands of people that erupted across the country, the taking-over of high schools and universities that are in progress, the attacks against government buildings and police stations are the justified demonstration of rage that exists in broad parts of society and youth due to the tough economic policy which is in favor of multinationals, big capital, bankers and the European Union. The murder of young Alexis was the spark that started the fire and the materials of this fire that doesn’t end are unemployment, indigence and despair that large parts of the workers and youth are facing. The results of the capitalist economic crisis and the government and EU policies are the real reasons for the eruption of the Greek youth and people.
Once again the stance of both official parties of the formal reformist Left was at least problematic. The so called KKE [CPG] tried to appease and slander the youth’s struggle, SYN-SYRIZA [Left Alliance] tried to manipulate and channel the demostrations for its own ambitions (future collaboration in government with the social-democrats), while the leaderships of both parties hurried to meet the prime minister when he invited them to his office. Both parties are trying to incorporate the popular rage within the parliamentary electoral process and defuse the movement that erupted.
Communist Party of Greece (marxist-leninist) [KKE(m-l)] as well as other left organizations, the Militant Movement of Students and other front organizations participated actively from the very start in the protest that took place in numerous Greek cities, in the taking-over of universities and the mobilization of high school students. We fight for the continuance and escalation of the struggle and the success of its goals against the government and its policy.
• LONG LIVE THE UPRISING OF THE GREEK YOUTH!
• DOWN WITH THE KILLERS AND THE POLICY OF POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT!
• LONG LIVE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY!
Athens 12/12/08
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