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"en.20120213.20.1-210-000"2
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"Madam President, ancient Greece is known as the birthplace of democracy. Modern Greece is the graveyard of any semblance of real, genuine democracy and the site of the resurrection of colonialism within Europe.
An unelected banker and a coalition government that commands the support of only 30% of the population are imposing brutal savagery on the Greek people. The very poorest are now in the crosshairs of the ‘troika’, with the monthly minimum wage cut to EUR 430 for young people and EUR 600 for others – all of this so that the vampire bondholders can continue to feast on the blood of the people.
The Greek workers should build a movement for an indefinite general strike and workplace occupations to bring down the Government and kick out the troika, and for a government of workers and poor, where the economy can be democratically planned to meet the needs of ordinary people, not the bankers.
The Greek people are not alone. What they face is a more extreme version of what the Irish people face, as do the Portuguese people, the Italian people, the Spanish people, and increasingly what people right across Europe are facing. A united movement is needed against austerity, against the troika, against the capitalist EU and for a socialist confederation of Europe."@en1
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