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You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.”—Goethe
In Greece the old parties and leaders are discredited, hated even. All hopes were placed on Syriza, which won the election on January 25. But hope was tinged with a degree of skepticism: will Syriza really do what they say? Or will they do the same as PASOK and others have done before?
Last weekend the Central Committee of Syriza met. Opposition to the party’s Majority line on the agreement with the Eurogroup was strong. A critical amendment by the Left Platform, the main opposition group led by the Minister Panayotis Lafazanis, won 68 votes, 41% of the total.
Stamatis Karagiannopoulos, of the Communist Tendency, intervened in the debate and presented the Tendency’s resolution. The Communist Tendency gave critical support to the amendment of the Left Platform. Here, we make Stamatis Karagiannopoulos’s intervention available for our readers.
The letter from the Greek government to the Eurogroup detailing the measures it is committing itself to implement as part of the agreement reached on Friday reveals the extent of the retreat from Syriza’s program. This has caused an uproar of opposition within the party.
On December 3, 1944, British snipers, the Athens police, and fascist paramilitaries opened fire on a demonstration of communist sympathizers in Athens’ Syntagma Square, leaving 28 dead. They were protesting against the provocations of the Greek bourgeois parties and the British imperialists, who were trying to derail and crush the mass revolutionary movement that had defeated the Nazis. Thus began the Battle of Athens.
The Communist is the official newspaper of the party of the Revolutionary Communists of America. It is different from any other publication you’ll find in the US today. Behind this newspaper, there’s a vast network of communist activity from coast to coast. It is a tool for organizing in the streets, at protests and strikes, for building communist cells in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and campuses.
The RCA is on a mission to carry Bolshevism into the political arena of a country that’s ripe for it. Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age, and we also use social media and our podcast to spread the communist program. But we’re not the kind of internet leftists who stay inside and “do politics” online. That’s why we need something we can carry with us into the streets and put into people’s hands. The physical paper is an instrument for building a real-life organization—a genuine Communist Party of fighters.