One year since the Greek Bailout Referendum: KKE's position has been fully vindicated.
By Nikos Mottas.
5/7/2016.
It's been a year
since the bailout referendum was held in Greece. The whole story
surrounding the referendum, as well as what followed the referendum
result, consists a major episode in a series of deceptions created by
the Tsipras' coalition government. The referendum's question was
whether the Greek people agreed or not with the bailout conditions
proposed by the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund
and the European Central Bank [1].
The outcome was a triumph of the “No” vote with 61.31%, while a
38.69% of the voters choosed the “Yes” choice.
However, the
referendum itself was proved a political fraud. The SYRIZA-ANEL
coalition government- and Prime Minister Tsipras personally- openly
advocated in favor of the “No” vote. Thousands of “No”
supporters gathered in mass demonstrations, while the country lived a
short but intense polarised period, trapped between the “No vs Yes”
dilemma. A fake and illusive dilemma, which had nothing to do with
the real interests of the working masses who, once again, found
themselves entrapped in bourgeois political antagonism.