At least 84 people are
dead and 187 injured. The number of those missing is still unknown.
Thousands of properties have been turned into ashes. The results of
the deadly wildfires which affected the region of Attica are
devastating.
The SYRIZA-ANEL
coalition government has unleashed an outrageous communicative
campaign in order to throw the blame for the disaster somewhere else,
except from itself. They blame the “weather”, the “climate
change”, the supposedly “unprecedented weather conditions”, the
“wind”, etc.
In an interview to the
BBC, Defense Minister Panos Kammenos had the audacity to blame the
residents themselves because, as he said, they contributed to
disaster by building illegal homes. In a shameless effort to justify
the unjustifiable, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras talked about an
“asymmetrical phenomenon”.
Behind such
communicative tricks of mockery, which deceive and provoke the
people, they are trying to hide the actual culprit of the tragedy:
the barbaric capitalist system which generates the pursuit of profit.
Profit-making is behind arson and land enroachment. A burnt forest
consists a splendid opportunity for investment and profitability by
capitalists and business groups. Capitalist development imposes-
through one or another way- the concentration of land in fewer hands.
In capitalist Greece,
fire protection measures and forest fire-fighting infrastructure do
not consist a priority. The policy that serves the capitalist profit
do not regard fire protection as an important matter. The Greek
governments pay up to 4.2 billion euros annually for military
expendidures related to NATO, but when it comes to fire protection
measures there is no money. You see, fire protection and
fire-fighting infrastructure aren't a profitable sector like the arms
industry.
Once again Mr. Tsipras
is lying to the Greek people. The wildfires aren't an “asymmetrical
phenomenon”. What consists an asymmetrical phenomenon- which poses
a continuous grave threat to the people- is capitalist system itself.
This is the system that SYRIZA, New Democracy and the other bourgeois
parties are serving.
Enought with lies and
hypocrisy! The unspeakable disaster of the last days in the suburbs
of Athens is nothing but the mirror of capitalist barbarity.
