Austerity & Fascism In Greece – The Real 1% Doctrine

[Magda Hassan]

A google translation from French

Greece: the specter of famine

Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 05:00 | Read 8075 times I 13 comment (s)

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While the Troika is back in Athens this week, poverty is growing in Greece. Our partner blogger Panagioris Grigoriou explains how to organize what is now called the "survival" daily. A situation not without political consequences.

(Meals provided by the churches of Athens, late 2011 - PETER NICHOLLS / THE TIMES / SIPA)

Our world becomes more refined and precise in all its expressions as possible and practicable policy. Or rather acquires sclerosis crudest of the crisis, by normalizing.And indeed, this policy can be reduced by increasing the gains the most basic and essential, namely survival. Facing the fear of starvation, deprivation, and that of otherness, regarded as more threatening every day and frankly, to be felled. What remains: few social rights as a meager relics museum, in a world that no longer quite the social body. Still, left it welcomes the decision of a Chamber of Justice Athenian unconstitutional and forced unilateral cuts in wages and bonuses in the public, in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Conventions of the International Labour Office. This is certainly a significant step, and the radical left Daily Avghi , dated Tuesday (03/07), does not hesitate to "salute the crack construction salairophage" . But for effectiveness in practice? Mystery still.

"THE HAND THAT FEEDS"

The dark side of force, the Golden Dawn wants to broaden his political base by holding the bowl of the citizen. According to the report dated July 2 at the site of La Repubblica - "In Athens, a market at low prices for those who have Greek blood" - taken over by the Greek daily Protothema , the far-right party is currently establish grocery stores in neighborhoods with citizens suffering of western Athens, like those already operational, created at the initiative of associations, the church and some municipalities. Moreover, meals distributed every day, nothing in Athens, will not count thousands. The peculiarity of this citizens' initiative of the label extreme right is explicit yet: "free offer, or sell at very low prices, food and food only to Greek citizens who can prove their membership in the nation by ties of blood " . It's not very original indeed, except that the political significance of this ethnicization of humanitarianism is immediately provided. Just yesterday, Ilias Kasidiaris, inaugurating a new local branch of his movement in the northern suburbs of Athens, has managed to gather a thousand enthusiastic people. Contradicting, Alexis Tsipras has already stressed the need for a contingency plan " in self-help and citizen solidarity and left. " The humanitarian crisis is at hand. Leftmost among paléocommunistes KKE, yet it remains doubtful: " I would rather die than accept food aid, there is the fight that counts " , summed up a militant encountered during pre-election rally party in Athens two weeks ago. In any case, no doubt that politics is done and will now also on the plate of the poor. Here lie all the historical force of this "policy can be reduced to acquire the most basic" . And thinking citizen will be reduced in turn - who can doubt it - the only remaining politically correct contemplation, suggests that now the"visible hand nourishing" . And it's not without reason that some columnists left recall that time the National Liberation Front (EAM) of the 1940s, a key priority of the political partisan army was fighting against starvation, while in Meanwhile, the occupying German authorities and the right-wing organizations of the time, did not neglect the political bias of emergency assistance. We're not in the famine years of 1941-1943 course. But the chorus of that old time gathered all the misery is increasingly heard ...

"SINCE JUNE 17, WE DIED"

On a different apparently related, Stelios Vaskos, native son, went to Munich from Trikala, bicycle, and the last I heard he would be on the way back, while the local Red Cross organizes a violin concerto. For a poster pasted on the walls of the Prefecture, the Society of Animal Welfare in the next town, Karditsa, sending out an SOS: "After the theft of food for our animals, mud and snow from last winter almost gave the coup de grace to our kennel, so many years of effort ... " . Some televisions national audience, reports showed on the hard life of animals in the memorandum: abandonment, killing, violence. It is probably for this reason that Monday night, July 2, Antonis Samaras and other heads policies of the coalition came together to finally find a parade in front of the Troika, expected within a week in Greece. In reality they have no room for negotiation and everyone understands it: "They apply the Memorandum, the Memorandum alone, we know. Samaras is a draw, also at the Brussels summit, there has not been a single word for Greece. It turns out that since June 17, we are dead " , heard to say in the cafe of the fortress city of Trikala. But the discussion did not go further. Because in some cases at all, probably because of the vote in favor of tripartism"Troika from within" , wanting to make the argument becomes more tricky. In such circumstances it is better to be silent. It is preferred to change the topic of conversation and discuss "the history of our glorious infallible people" , and other stereotypes such as a salve, recyclable desire in all coffee trade respectable. It regrets, however, the flight of young people, their new emergency emigration, and to close the discussion, some even reminisce about their old memories of the time "RFA positive" of Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt: "I was at my worker-bodybuilder debut in Karlsruhe, then I became a restaurateur, and after fifteen years, I returned to Greece with 800,000 DM to finally realize my dream: build a restaurant in the country and leave Germany. I'm about to go bankrupt now, there is more than a dream, but in less than a year I will retire " .

ALREADY PROVISIONS FOR THE WINTER

The fight grocer has already begun and will certainly be good times ahead in this country. Meanwhile, thieves who had robbed the churches of Milos just been arrested by police in the Cyclades, while at the same time in Athens, small posters addressing our friends germanophones, extolling the virtues of rooms for rent in Sikinos (a beautiful island, it's true). Aris my neighbor in the village will not go anyway, he spent all his money to buy nine tons of wood for next winter. It also increased its production of greenhouse tomato and waiting for better days. Getting ready already in effect for the winter. Each according to his ability, each according to need. Thus two popes in the neighboring department of Karditsa defrauded the Treasury, by falsifying forms for use in payment of pensions by the State of the prelates. Result (Divine): 700,000 euro between January and June 2012. Both men were indicted. And in terms of the clergy, according to some here in Trikala, political commissars of the local church would have suggested an informal online political unequivocal: "Let us vote and do vote Golden Dawn, this is our only way to be saved " . Other residents refute these remarks: "This is probably isolated cases. Because everyone here knows, the Church and the monasteries were in favor of a New Democracy MP and not whatever it is the former Prefect (elected). How many roads or other development of the sacred territory under control of the monks, were incurred during its passage through the prefectural? " During his time in a symposium organized by The Economist , July 2, Alexis Tsipras yet once said that the idea of growth was possible only after "abandonment of the memorandum, introduction of a Tobin tax, issue of eurobonds, and implementation of legislation regulating the banking and neutralizing tax havens " . This is perhaps a new form of struggle grocer to another level ... In the meantime, we leave the grocery world. Carrefour, for example, who sold his share to his partner Marinopoulos native. Credit Agricole also, which is selling its Greek subsidiary Emporiki Bank. French capitalism is about to leave us, because this would be rather Barony German, more it seems, from June 17 New Deal, or simply sharing the new Levant, who knows ...According to local press, expected in a few days the visit likelihood of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, who should meet shortly in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Charles de Gaulle ... Historically, the East is a mirage of the West ...
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