[GREECE] LET'S GO FOR A UNITED FRONT TO KICK SAMARAS OUT

This article was original published on November 23rd in "EL PIQUETERO" N°3 (official newspaper of Tendencia Piquetera Revolucionaria from Argentina)

GREECE

LET'S GO FOR A UNITED FRONT TO KICK SAMARAS OUT

LIONEL ZIVALS

Tsipras says that he wants to get rid of Samaras, but in fact it's to pose an electoral replacement, because he's asking for elections. He declared “the question that our adversaries make isn't any more if we are going to win and reach the government (…) The matter is if we can do it” (www.syriza.gr, November 7^th). That means that the bourgeoisie considers the possibility of Syriza managing the capitalist state.

KKE AND SYRIZA BOYCOTT THE WORKERS’ STRUGGLE AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT

Xekinima (CWI, Taëffe, members of Syriza) precisely shows KKE´s and Syriza's role: “the motion to call a week of strikes and street actions was voted for No at the ADEDY´s CC (state workers) by KKE's votes”. “Two days before, at the journalists' union, Syriza (the biggest fraction of the union) played a similar role (www.socialistparty.co.uk, November 14^th). This must be taken in account, even more because they are Syriza's members who are declaring it. KKE and Syriza aren't a way to develop an independent alternative.

TO GET RID OF SAMARAS, WE HAVE TO KICK HIM OUT: WE HAVE TO BUILD THE WORKERS UNITED FRONT

The TPR states: it’s impossible to expect to kick Samaras out by a string of general strikes. That way, Samaras could fall down, but he will not be replaced by a revolutionary government. To get rid of him, we have to kick him out. As we stood at the “Open letter from the TPR to PO's XXI Congress and CRFI's International Secretariat”, this requires the establishment of a Worker United Front that boosts direct action and fighters’ common debate to achieve it. This is the politics we propose to EEK, Antarsya (composed mainly of NAR, SEK, OKDE-Spartakus and others parties and activists) and the whole Greek left. Only by this way, kicking out Samaras can lead to a workers government.