AFTER a request by Prime Minister Tsipras, the Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos convened, Monday afternoon 6th of July, a meeting of the Political Leaders of the parties represented in the Greek Parliament.
Attending were Prime Minister Tsipras; the transitional Leader of New Democracy and leader of the Opposition, Evangelos Meimarakis; the leader of the ‘To Potami’ party, Theodorakis; the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Dimitrios Koutsoumbas; the President of the Independent Greeks, Kammenos; and the president of PASOK, Mrs Fofi Genimata.
During the meeting, the Prime Minister proceeded to inform the Political Leaders of the initiatives he intends to immediately undertake following the result of Sunday’s referendum. At the end of the meeting, the Political Leaders – with the reservation of the overall disagreement of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, Koutsoumbas, which was registered in detail in the proceedings of the meeting – issued the following joint statement:
‘The recent verdict of the Greek people does not comprise a mandate of rupture, but a mandate for continuing and strengthening the effort of achieving a socially just and economically sustainable agreement. Towards this direction, the Government assumes the responsibility of continuing the negotiations. And each Political Leader will contribute, respectively, within the framework of his/her institutional and political role. The common goal is to seek a solution that will ensure:
• The adequate coverage of the financing needs of the Country.
• Reliable reforms, based on the criterion of the just distribution of burdens and the promotion of development, with the least possible recessionary effects.
• Powerful, front-loaded, growth programme, first and foremost for combatting unemployment and for the encouragement of entrepreneurship.
• A commitment towards the beginning of substantive discussion on dealing with the problem of the sustainability of the Greek public debt.
• Immediate priority is to restore the liquidity in the financial system, in consultation with the ECB. The Prime Minister has promised to inform the Political Leaders, immediately after the forthcoming EU Summit, for the first conclusions to be drawn and for the overall progress of the negotiations.’
The Syriza government has made nonsense of the just concluded referendum in which it got over 60% of the vote, after a campaign in which the EU Troika were condemned as blackmailers, and the Greek opposition insisted that to vote ‘NO’ was to vote for suicide.
Syriza accused the EU of seeking to impose a regime change on Greeece, and to place the opposition into power against the wishes of the Greek masses.
Now, Premier Tsipras and Syriza is organising its own regime change by preparing the way to accept whatever dastardly deal the EU and the Troika are prepared to offer, with a Greek national governent in waiting ready to impose it onto the Greek masses.
On Sunday overnight, when the Greek masses were dancing in the streets after the landside ‘NO’, Syriza was so petrified by the revolutionary movement of the masses that it immediately ran for protection to embrace its right wing ‘opponents’.
First, the Finance Minister was sacrificed as a show of good faith to the Troika and its Greek allies.
Then the opposition leaders were propositioned by Tsipras to form a common front, even a coalition government to push through whatever dastardly deal the EU was prepared to offer.
The issue is now clear. The Greek workers must organise to take the power and establish a Workers and Small Farmers Government, that will expropriate the bankers and the bosses, and establish a workers state as the only way to avoid 20 or 30 years of slavery under the iron heel of the Troika.
This task means rapidly building up the Revolutionary Marxist League, the Greek section of the Inernational Committee of the Fourth International, and making an immediate call for the workers of Europe to rise up in support of the Greek workers and to bring down the EU and to replace it with the Socialist United States of Europe’.
