Greece urgently needs our solidarity. The upcoming days are crucial. The new government of Alexis Tsipras has engaged in negotiation to enforce the mandate of his people. By applying its social and economic recovery program as well as democratic restoration, Syriza can manage to change Greece and, with us, to change the rules in Europe in order to get out of austerity. The troika, Angela Merkel, the Liberals and the financial power know this. They want to close the breach.

This is the reason why the European Central Bank decided to change the system of loans guarantees in Greek banks. They are trying to create panic. This brutality facing the goodwill and negotiation efforts undertaken by the Tsipras-government, is an attack against all European peoples, against democracy. It shows to which level the standoff that has been launched will be difficult.

We must be alongside the Greek government. European citizens must pressure their governments to respect the vote of the Greeks, to change the rules imposed by the ECB and the Troika and leave Greece breathe. The time required has to be left to Syriza to rebuild the country's development on a new basis, instead of keep on suffocating it. This is our common struggle. All European nations need to come out of austerity and act for European solutions based on solidarity.

I call all the forces that refuse austerity and the blackmail of the debt to amplify the popular pressure in the different countries of the EU on their government, on central banks and on the ECB by multiplying solidarity actions throughout Europe on February the 11^th, the day of the extraordinary meeting of the Eurogroup. The mobilization should keep on all over the week from 11 to 17 February; during the European Council on 12 and 13 February, until the Eurogroup of 17 February.

Pierre Laurent

President of the Party of the European Left

Brussels, 6^th February 2015