Stavros Mavroudeas — SYRIZA betrays the resounding NO vote of the Greek people and signs a 3rd troika austerity program
Mike Norman Economics 2015-07-16
It is of paramount importance for the Left not to leave the field free to the extreme Right as it had happened in West Europe. A Left popular front against the EU should be urgently organized. This should involve political forces and grassroots popular organizations, fight austerity and capitalist restructuring and strive for the total disengagement of Greece from EU (that is for a popular Grexit involving leaving the whole structure and not solely the monetary union). It is the task of the independent and militant Left and the combatant forces of labor to instigate this front.The Left will have to rethink its internationalism, which should not be difficult. The Left is not about internationalism as much as the worker revolution being international. "Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains."
What this amounts to is reversing the priority of ownership over work to that of the dignity of work and needs of the people, the majority of whom are workers and those unable able to work, — children, students, the disabled, and the elderly.
The assumption that there is no alternative to working people serving owners and organizers is just that, an assumption, and the claim that there are no alternatives is not founded.
In this regard, the Right is not the workers' friend. Listen up, Left.