Greece: Moving towards a European Union Dictatorship

Greece, November 17, 2010.  37 years after the Polytechnic uprising, huge demonstrations took place almost in every major big Greek city. It is estimated that more than 50.000 people in Athens gathered to march for the anniversary. The state in order to “protect the public order” puts thousands of  riot policemen
in the streets. There are witnesses of severe and brutal police attacks. The mainstream media did a very short report (and of course one-sided) about the demos, placing them in the 6th place in the news. However, this state terrorism did not pass. The message was loudly heard to the hearts of the people who don’t want to see their future sink in the capitalist dictatorship of the European Union and the banks. “The I.M.F is not an image on your TV screen”.

Nevertheless, as long as the depression deepens, repression is getting tougher as well. What we have seen during the past months do not fit the profile of another Western country. Not to mention the distortion of truth by the international media filled up with emetic anti-communist vitriol. Indeed, we should not expect anything better from them. (We have seen the same stance for the case of Milbank riot as well in London). They keep on portraying every struggle in a way that keeps safe the interests of the ruling class. Victimisation and brainwashing!Thus, nobody is going to learn about the American activist who was seriously injured in the head by Delta motorcycle police during anti-IMF demonstration in Athens (15-11-2010), about the violent eviction of a squat in Peristeri (Athens) yesterday and so many cases of human rights abuse inside police stations. As this crisis keeps on getting worse and worse, more repression measures we see:

        [1] In overt orientation of NATO in repression of people’s movements, yesterday the Greek Prime Minister Papandreou confirmed, in a statement after the end of talks in the first day of the Summit in Lisbon. Cynically and fully expressing the imperialist designs of this alliance, said the new structure of NATO is among others to address “extreme political positions and movements around the world!” [...] “The new military doctrine of NATO tries to respond, twenty years after the end of the Cold War, why we need the Alliance, and it manages to achieve that” said Greek Prime Minister, suggesting that EU and NATO is moving in a parallel path. Moreover, the military arm of the European Union, called the Common European Security and Defence, as the Council of Europe, recently ratified a resolution on “combating extremism, aiming to direct targeting social movements and civil liberties”.

        After a series of right-wing attacks on social and political spaces in Athens and Thessaloniki, on the occasion of the recent murderous attack against members of the Radio Revolt, collectives of the city called Friday afternoon to anti-fascist demonstration in the centre. The police called the protesters to withdraw and attacked them without any reason during the first minutes of the march, with the obvious aim, the cancellation. Then, while the march continued without any riot incident, the police surrounded the protesters at a distance of less than one meter, preventing their continuance. Security forces arrested people with the only reason their age and appearance. Also, for their transfer to Thessaloniki Police Center they used mini-vans, unmarked state vehicles bearing signs of bogus trading companies, such like relax travel, something that reminiscent more of a kidnapping attempt rather than a legitimate police operation. In a protest that without any single violent incident, the arrests “for a precaution” exceeded the 35. Moreover non-uniformed officers, wearing hoods and bearing professional equipment, photographed the demonstrators, before, during and after the march, assuming, obviously, that the people who belong to this particular political space are potential suspects for “committing illegal acts.” Yesterday afternoon in Thessaloniki became obvious more than ever, that the police did not act in the prescribed legal procedures for managing such situations, but on their own collective political criterion, the criminalization of anarchist and anti-authoritarian space in order to create an internal enemy. The message that was given yesterday was clear: Anarchists are prohibited from protesting…

Greek people are finally very well experienced to what European Union means. All I can say is that it worked well for those who are in the top of the capitalist hierarchy but for the man in the street, for the worker, for the peasant, for the immigrant, for the student, for the ordinary man who works 40 hours per week and gets 500 euro salary per month, for the unemployed youth, for the sick, the disabled, the pensioners… was the biggest disaster we have seen after the WW2 and the years of fascism. So Ireland is next, Spain and Portugal follows… and those who still think that this system is great and works well, they can only watch us behind their cosy pc screen destroying it. Their time will come.

Source:  http://freevoicenetwork.org/articles/greece-movin-towards-a-european-union-dictatorship/