In an anti-workers
delirium that even the right-wing, neoliberal press would envy,
SYRIZA party's newspaper “Avgi” launched a vociferous attack
against the working people's right to strike! In an article published
on 28/6, the newspaper shamelessly attacked the striking
mobilizations of the municipal sanitation workers by reproducing the
most reactionary arguments of the bourgeois press. Trying to justify
the anti-people, anti-worker policy of the SYRIZA coalition
government, “Avgi” characterizes the strike as the “ultimate
medium” (!) which, according to the newspaper, should not be used
frequently by the workers.
Using the arguments of
the capitalists and big employers, the newspaper of SYRIZA tries to
fuel “social automatism” (turning labor sectors against each
other) and undermine class solidarity. In order to do this, the paper
attacks the strikers for “keeping society hostage” and blames the
workers-peoples' mobilizations for being “harmful” for the
“national interests”! According to “Avgi”, the “national
interest” is the interest of the bourgeoisie which the SYRIZA
government faithfully serves.
The newspaper
intentionally tries to undermine the solidarity among workers of
different sectors thus condemning those who strike against the
barbaric policy of the government as “enemies” of the economy and
development. But the point where “Avgi” openly challenges the
right to strike is when it writes the following: “Some crucial for
the social and national interests sectors do not have the right to
strike” (!). Yes, the official party newspaper of SYRIZA reaches
the highest levels of reaction, showing its real role as a social
democratic instrument of the bourgeois class.
Apparently, the
article of “Avgi” echoes the deeper intentions of the Tsipras'
government to restrict the right to strike. Being in the service of
the big capital and an enemy of the working class, the SYRIZA-ANEL
government is ruthless in accomplishing its anti-people role. The
working class movement in Greece have no other choice but to stand
firm in class solidarity and respond dynamically to such hideous
provocations.
