CALLING FOR THE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST HELEXPO

ELECTIONS REQUIRE OUR PRESENCE AT THE BALLOTS AND ASSIGNMENT OUR ABSENCE FROM LIFE STRUGGLES 

WE TURN OUR BACKS TO BOTH 

At Syntagma, the Left as a whole chose the easily digestible populist dilemma of memorandum or no memorandum in order to gain a role, instead of self-instituting or self-organising a new social scheme. This false dilemma is over, but the left will face it again in its path ahead and this may lead to a defeat larger than anyone can imagine” (Abstract from AK’s release after the elections in May 2012).

We have said it before and we say it again for those that were taken aback and those that want to do one of the same, crossing the same river twice. They are trying in vain. The reasons that led Syriza to its full integration and management by the capitalist system are the same reasons as those that will lead all versions of the left that participate in elections and seek authority roles, to the same end. Gasping behind them are the “perpetual students” of extra-parliamentarians to count votes that have no counterpart in society.

Even the most naïve were convinced in the past five months that assigning someone to save us is the same as assigning someone to destroy us. The LIE in politics takes supernatural dimensions. The NO has become YES, COUNTER-MEMORANDUM became MEMORANDUM and the LEFT became the RIGHT by providing foothold for the reversed world of authority and statism. Five months of the Left were five months of management and governance and nothing more.

Referendum on a outdated question but in front of a clear responsibility

Our society is called today to handle an exceptionally critical situation. Governing institutions can no longer present solutions to a crisis that like a cancer is destroying the social net, while it is becoming clear that the survival of the system can be achieved only through sacrificing society itself. The situation created by the international financial capital and the state institutions that reinforce it is leading us with accelerated rhythm to the imposition of a continuous fascism whilethe state of exception has now become the normal state of the new governance.

Greece is of course included in this experiment. Following the contemptuous offer of the  institutions, the government of Syriza decided to conduct a referendum "as a way to continuing the negotiation through different means". This proves of course without any doubt the failure of reaching "an honorable compromise" which was noisily touted as the best solution until recently. Following into the steps of the Thatcherian dogma "there is no alternative", this imposition of the terms of "realism" leads to social passivity and an attempt to enslave life itself. This "realism" of  continuous impoverishment, of unemployment, of no hope, of the definite abandonment of any possibility to achieve happiness, of war and of repression is very far from our own sense of logic. Society needs not only to see what is behind the closed doors of the decision-making chamber but also to move to break them.