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“Memorandum 2” for Greece: An agreement of shame and social destruction

The new loan agreement between the troika (EU-ECB-IMF) and the Greek government coalition (consisting of the Socialist party, the right-wing and the extreme right-wing) brings dramatic...

The new loan agreement between the troika (EU-ECB-IMF) and the Greek government coalition (consisting of the Socialist party, the right-wing and the extreme right-wing) brings dramatic developments for Greek people, but also for Europe as a whole.
This new authoritarian agreement is illegitimate, because it is negotiated by a government which has never been elected, but appointed directly by the troika and the Greek and international forces of the capital.
This agreement is inhuman, because, among other dreadful changes, it dictates 150.000 lay-offs in the public sector, terminates any sense of Collective Contracts, reduces the minimum wage in the private sector by 22% (from 751.39 Euro gross, now to 586,08 Euro gross) and even by 33% for employees under the age of 25 (from 751,39 Euro gross, now to 510,94 Euro gross), while it also reduces pensions by 15% and blows up social security funds. It mathematically leads Greek people to an unprecedented social and humanitarian destruction and also to the bankruptcy of the country, the first bankruptcy of a Eurozone member state.
This agreement is a test. If this test is successful in its ratification against the will of the Greek people, it will determine the disastrous fate of the other over indebted EU member states and, eventually, the EU as a whole.
Against the massive and unprecedented impoverishment, social destruction, violation of democracy and abolition of popular sovereignty, the European Left forces answer back with solidarity, resistance and with our continuous struggle for the formation and the realization of an alternative way-out of the crisis. 
We call upon all social and political forces that resist to the ongoing escalation of social destruction and authoritarianism in a national and European level, and invite them to the widest possible unity struggle, for the massive change in the balance of power and the defeat of the reactionary governments, the troika and their super-austerity plans, in each country and in Europe as a whole.
Only such an answer can correspond to the present historical developments and defend our peoples' social achievements and rights, against the forces of the capital, which created the crisis. Peoples of Europe unite and revolt!
Brussels, 10/2/2012

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