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"Mr President, the situation in Greece does not need recommendations. ‘Memorandum Two’, passed on Sunday, 12 February by the parties of capital and rubberstamped by the EU/ECB/IMF Troika, is a blatantly barbaric attack on the working people. The new borrowing agreement and its flanking measures will make modern-day slaves of the workers, forcing them to work for a loaf of bread. The attack is sweeping. Crushing cuts to wages, pensions, health, welfare and education, mass unemployment, poverty and the impoverishment of the people. Everything is being demolished. This is uncontrolled bankruptcy of the nation. Greece is a special, exceptional case. Spearheaded by the EU 2020 strategy, the EU and the bourgeois governments are jointly attacking the working classes and grassroots classes in every Member State of the EU with the same savageness. Even this blatantly anti-grassroots policy will not prevent friction in the EU or even the risk of general warfare for the redistribution of the markets. Three days after the new Memorandum was passed, the EU has already started a new round of terrorism and pressure on the Greek people to accept even worse measures. This spells the end of self-delusion about a unified EU, convergence, solidarity and peace. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators on the streets of Greece, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, France and elsewhere are shouting as much from the rooftops. It is time now for the organised working/grassroots class movement to speak. As you sow, so shall you …"@en1
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