Two “schools of thought” dominate the analyses of the bourgeois parties in the wake of Rubio’s visit. One is that of the cheerleaders, led by the government: they are hailing Greece’s “upgrading” in US-NATO energy (and other) plans and continue to regard it as a major advantage that Rubio came to Greece but did not go to Turkey.
To question the description of Elon Musk as a “genius,” along with similar descriptions bestowed on numerous other capitalists throughout history, is not to make a clinical assessment of his intelligence. It is to reject the bourgeois ideological myth according to which technological progress is the creation of individual “genius” capitalists operating within a supposedly passive society, rather than the product of collective labor and accumulated social knowledge.
Marco Rubio’s speech at the historic Pnyx in Athens on October 7 was a textbook exercise in imperialist propaganda. Invoking ancient Greek democracy, philosophy and civilization, the US Secretary of State attempted to give Washington’s pursuit of global supremacy the appearance of a noble historical mission. Behind the grandiose rhetoric, however, stood the familiar doctrine of US imperial power, military superiority and capitalist domination.
Resolution of the Political Bureau of the PCTE
The decision was unanimously adopted at an extraordinary party congress held on September 26, according to a political resolution published by the party newspaper Manifest on October 3. The party states that it will continue its struggle for the interests of the working class and for socialism under the historic CPN name.
The mobilization stands in sharp contrast to the policy of the New Democracy government, which has deepened Greece’s strategic alignment with Washington and facilitating US-NATO military operations.
Twelve years and three successive federal administrations later, the fate of the students has still not been fully established; remains belonging to only three of the 43 have been identified. Thousands again marched in Mexico City on the anniversary, led by the students’ parents and accompanied by students from other rural teachers’ colleges, demanding truth and justice.
Britain and France accepted the surrender of the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany and Prague was forced to accept the diktat.
Along with the territory went crucial fortifications and strategic positions, leaving Czechoslovakia gravely weakened before the Nazi war machine.
