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| Greek PM Alexis Tsipras (Right) with Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, dressed in military uniforms during an exercise of the Greek Armed Forces. |
No trust in the bourgeois class and her governments.
Abstract from "Rizospastis"
(7-8 April 2018, p.9).
Translation: In Defense of Communism.
While
the country's involvement in the US-NATO-EU plans in the region
grows, so it happens with the effort of the bourgeois class, of her
staff and parties to “call up” the people in the dangerous plans,
to “prepare the ground” for the possibility of fast developments,
even of a war engagement, interchanging the dangerous complacency and
the placement of hope to the imperialist unions with ultrapatriotic rhetoric and the people's “psychological” preparation.
The people must show no trust at all in the bourgeois class and her governments, (and) to the calls for “enlistment” in the aims of the capital, either in conditions of imperialist “peace” with the gun to the people's head or in the prospect of a military engagement, which consists an extention of these competitions.
There
is no relation between the defense of the [country's] territorial
integrity and sovereign rights with the interests of the business
groups, the imperialist competitions for the share of the region's
energy wealth, the routes of energy and goods, markets and spheres of
influence.
On
the contrary, it is those interests and competitions where the
government fully participates, on behalf of the bourgeoisie, which
consists source of great dangers, which become magnet of imperialist
confrontations thus leading to border changing plans, international
treaties and people's bloodshed. The participation in the imperialist
unions, in the unions of the capital, means actual challenge of these
rights and a source of great dangers- and not, of course, a source of
security.
The
working people, the popular strata, must decisively respond to this
treacherous effort, which through calls about a supposed “national
unity” seeks to subordinate the working class, the people, in the
plans of the capital and the ones of the USA-NATO.
[The
people must respond by] strengthening the struggle against the
imperialist war, against the multifaceted involvement in the USA-NATO
plans that smell “gunpowder”. By strengthening the struggle for
the country's disengagement from NATO-EU, for the closure of the
bases and the foreign military headquarters, for the immediate return
of all army staff and soldiers from missions abroad.
The
people must join the KKE, which sets in the working class the task to
draw her own struggle, alongside the other popular strata and their
mass movement, in order to defend the country's territorial
integrity, but also for the victorious emergence of the people
against the capitalist power of exploitation and wars.
