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| The impressive May Day rally in Athens / Photo: Reuters. |
The great, eye-catching demonstration organized by the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME) on May 1st in Athens' Syntagma Square caused nightmares
to anti-communists and various apologists of capitalist barbarity.
The enemies of the working class from all over the bourgeois political spectrum, from Golden Dawn's neo-Nazi criminals to conservative New Democracy MPs and from far-right charlatans to SYRIZA's social democrats, expressed their deep discomfort
for the celebration of the International Workers’ Day.
A common argument used
by the bunch of anti-communists is that the May Day gathering of PAME was “illegal”,
because it supposedly violated the quarantine imposed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. However,
the demonstration was so perfectly organized that all the necessary measures of
protection (distance between the protesters, use of masks, gloves, etc) were followed.
Those who try so hard
to defame the May 1st demonstration by unleashing anti-communist slanders
against the KKE and PAME do not care about any protection measures or
quarantines. Their actual concern is rooted in the great symbolism of the May
1st demonstration, which is the inalienable right of the working class to protest
and fight against the established capitalist barbarity.
The fear of class
struggle and the deep aversion towards the organized labour movement: that is
what unites fascist parties and prestigious liberal broadsheets like "Kathimerini".
The picture of hundreds of demonstrators in Syntagma Square on May 1st was a
punch in the stomach for all those who serve as capitalism’s apologists.
The May 1st rally in
Athens, which was organized under the slogan “People will not pay again! The
visible enemy is capitalism!” received broad coverage by international media, marking
a milestone in the history of Workers’ Day celebration.
Most significantly, the
demonstration sent a powerful message to the government, the capitalists and
their stooges: that the workers, the people will not accept to pay the burden
and the cost for a new capitalist crisis nor they will accept any violations of
their vested rights.