[OccupyCU] (The Internationalist) Greece: The Naked Rule of Finance Capital

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The SYRIZA Debacle: "Leftists" Enforce the Bosses' Austerity

Greece: The Naked Rule of Finance Capital

Workers: Sink the Bankers' Memorandum, Occupy the Banks and Ports!
Build a Trotskyist Party to Fight for International Socialist
Revolution!

http://www.internationalist.org/greecenakedruleoffinancecapital1507.html

In mid-July, the Greek parliament cast the fateful vote to accept the
draconian austerity measures dictated by Europe's central bankers. The
"Agreement" by Prime Minister Tsipras and his Coalition of the Radical
Left (SYRIZA) was a groveling surrender by these purported radicals who
won office in January on a program to reverse the cutbacks and layoffs
that have devastated Greek working people over the last five years.
Worse yet, the populist left is now enforcing anti-working-class
measures even more brutal than what its conservative predecessors tried
and failed to carry out. The Eurobankers used SYRIZA to get what the
right couldn't deliver. This spectacle is the most dramatic illustration
that imperialist democracy masks the dictatorship of finance capital.
Despite the regime's capitulation the battle is not over. Greek workers
have the power to defeat the vicious European Union chiefs, but to use
it they require not another SYRIZA but a leadership with the
revolutionary program and determination to sweep away all the
imperialist exploiters.