by Yorgos
Mitralias
So now here
we are: the new Tsipras government has just resolved two of its major
problems: that of the public debt and the one represented by the
ex-president of the Greek Parliament, Zoe Konstantopoulou. How has it
managed to bring off this feat? Simple! By erasing from the official
site of the Greek Parliament – for all time – everything that
could recall Zoe Konstantopoulou and her initiatives during her brief
presidency, including the Commission for the Truth of the Public
Debt.
Faced with
this impressive back-turn by the Greek government which takes us back
to the glories of Stalinism’s triumphant years in the ’30s but
also of Macarthyism at its most intrusive in the early ’50s, we are
entitled to ask: Does all this mean that Greece’s public debt has
disappeared? And has Zoe K. accepted her defeat then, and decided to
stop telling the truth and to silence her criticism of the vitriol
thrown at her?
The answer
is No. Greece’s astronomical public debt pursues its relentless
course as ever. Zoe K. refuses to concede defeat. So there is a
question to answer. In view of the fact that the attempt to clear the
Parliamentary website of unwanted presences clearly lacks efficiency,
why has the successor to Zoe K. and his friends proceeded in this
manner? What were they really after?
The only
possible answer is that, in acting like this, all those fine people
wanted to send a message or rather a signal to someone. To who? Well,
obviously, to the famous “European partners” with which the new
Greek authorities have just reached a deal: an agreement which is at
the same time … the sole program of the Tsipras government. But
also, to those from below of the Greek society – to make sure they
no longer have the slightest doubt as to the inevitability that any
resistance to the Memoranda and its instigators will be crushed.
In sum, it
was a highly symbolic act which aimed to do no more and no less than
once and for all clear the collective memory of the Greek people not
only of any trace of an alternative to the Memoranda policy, but also
even of the name of the person who was the very embodiment of this
alternative!
In reality,
the ruthlessness of these neophytes of neo-liberalism in fighting
what could be called their bad conscience is not limited to taking
away everything that reminded one of Zoe K’s brief presidency. By
going one further, and erasing also the appeal given out by the
international campaign to “support to the Commission for the Truth
of the Public Debt and the Right of Peoples to Audit the Public
Debts” the sorcerer’s apprentices of the Stalinist school of
falsification wanted to remove any trace of these 24,423 men and
women from all four corners of the earth, who have – up to this
time because the collection of signatures continues – shown their
active support for this campaign! In doing this, they have only
demonstrated that one thing: their total disregard for these
thousands of progressive people, including at least 2000 university
professors and economists, who want to do no more than support Greece
against its executioners!
The
predilection of the leaders of this genetically modified Syriza for
the very worst of administrative methods should not be a surprise. In
fact, well before their spectacular capitulation, they were already
making violent and vulgar attacks on the Commission for the Truth of
the Public Debt through their specialized dirty jobs media without so
much as daring to criticize it publicly or to give reasons. In fact,
up to the present moment you would look in vain for the slightest
argument out of their mouths against the Citizens’ Audit of Public
Debt.
On the
contrary, these cowards have always preferred low blows to public
confrontation. Cynical and armed with the arrogance of power, they
allow themselves to boot out tens of thousands of people who have
signed the appeal to support the audit Commission, people who are of
no use to them seeing as these illustrious mediocrities feel
comfortable only in the company of the ‘great ones’ of this
world. What Jorge Semprun said of Santiago Carrillo is just what
applies perfectly well to them: all his life he did only one thing,
enter in the big salons.
Living as
they do in a state of permanent insecurity and discovering enemies
even where there are only activists who ask questions, it is not so
surprising that these followers of a second hand Machiavelli recall
the worst Stalinist traditions to annihilate everything that bothers
them. Deprived – luckily – of the means at Uncle Joe’s disposal
in his time, they content themselves with simply erasing all
witnesses to their betrayals and other sins – on the model of
Stalinist inquisitors who in their millions caused lives, names and
even the faces of their Soviet compatriots to vanish without trace. A
telling detail: as once in Moscow, now also in Athens, these
inquisitors are giving first priority to annihilating those who dare
to deny the genetic modification of their party and persist in
standing up for themselves: … communists, anti-capitalists and
radical critics of the established order! …
Our
conclusion is optimistic: It will take much more than the “cleansing”
of the Greek Parliament site, and even much more than the relentless
smear campaign and the dirtiest of blows to destroy resistance to
those who have sold their soul to the neoliberal devil by agreeing to
apply his inhumane policies. Even in very difficult conditions, the
struggle continues as it is now a question of defending all that is
most precious: our dignity and our very survival.
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the propaganda seemed to be effective to a certain degree,
concerning specific people. From a point and after, the media
concentrated not to SYRIZA as a whole, but to the 'systemic
threats' like Panagiotis Lafazanis, Zoe
Konstantopoulou,
Yanis Varoufakis and Costas Lapavitsas. Many of them joined
Popular Unity later.
Generally,
the media tried to "decompose" these people to the
voters, as being totally unreliable, or, even having specific
"behavioral" problems in some cases. All the "parades"
of these people to the mainstream media had only such a purpose.
It is something that the US media are doing right now, more or
less, with Bernie Sanders, probably through a more sophisticated
way.
The
case of Zoe Konstantopoulou is characteristic. From the first
moment as Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament, she took very
important initiatives, concerning the investigation of big
scandals under previous (PASOK – New Democracy) governments, as
well as, the audit of public debt through the Debt
Truth Committee.
However, the corrupted media of the local oligarchs tried to
manufacture ridiculous stories against her, in order to distract
the Greek public from these important initiatives.
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