Financial terrorism against Greece
Vicente Navarro
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy. Pompeu Fabra University, and former Professor of Economics. University of Barcelona
We are now seeing a frontage of finance capital, the hegemony of the
German and conveyed primarily through the European Central Bank (ECB)
against the Greek people, attack that tries to avoid any hint of
rebellion against the austerity policies that are destroying the welfare
of the masses of all eurozone countries and particularly Greece, whose
government Syriza has been the first to say "enough" against which there
is no other way to call it financial terrorism (see the book by
Professor Juan Torres and entitled The masters of the world, the weapons of financial terrorism).
It is in these moments when you have to understand the political and
historical context of what is happening, starting with the similarities
between what happened in Greece now with what happened in Spain in 1936
context.
1936 Spain, Greece 2015
There are moments in the history of Europe in the fight for social
justice and democracy in a country is also the struggle for justice and
democracy for all countries of Europe. The fight, so-called Civil War in Spain (between 1936 and 1939), was an example.
In Spanish territory, a military coup on behalf of minorities who
controlled the country, took place on July 18 1936, with the support of
the German and Italian fascist Nazi troops, facing the vast majority of
popular classes different peoples and nations of Spain, who heroically
resisted such a hit for more than three years with little military aid
from countries ruled by parties that identified themselves as Democrats,
showing a great betrayal of the democratic principles that sustain
said.
The defeat of the Spanish democratic forces also meant the defeat of
democracy in Western Europe with the victory of Nazism and fascism in
many countries in Europe that, starting World War II.
And in Spain, this victory marked the beginning of a dictatorial regime
that Professor Malefakis, the characterized by its enormous brutality
(per political murder committed by Mussolini, the dictator Franco
committed 10,000, according to the leading expert on European fascism,
Columbia University in the City of New York) and imposed enormous
economic, political, social and cultural backwardness in Spain. In 1936, Spain and Italy had similar level of economic development. In 1978, which it ended that horrible dictatorial regime, the Spanish per capita GDP was only 62% of Italian. This was the economic cost of such a regime.
What is happening in Greece?
Bridging the differences in each historical fact, the truth is that in
Greece we have been seeing a similar situation in which the struggle for
social justice and democracy in that country is the struggle for social
justice and democracy in all countries of Western Europe. The persistence of social justice and democracy in the countries of the European Union is playing today in that country.
His defeat greatly limited, to annul both the one and the other,
completing a process that began years ago with the construction of a
system of government of the eurozone, dominated by finance capital (the
hegemony of the German), which, in a coalition of the ruling elites in
every country, have been attacking the Greek people, destroying 25% of
its national wealth, or GDP, with the dismantling of their already
meager welfare state, plundering, stealing their property and attacking
their classes , and particularly its working class assault that has been
conducted in collaboration with undemocratic and corrupt elites that
have ruled Greece for many years.
This attack (and there is no other way to define it) has been carried
out in partnership with minorities representing the ruling classes of
the member countries of the European Union, being an important ally in
this class struggle that is taking place continental level, corrupt
ruling elites of the Spanish State, which dominated inherited from the
fascist dictatorship in Spain.
The political branch of this financial capital -the conservative and
liberal parties, with the invaluable help of socioliberales- games (they
still have the audacity to autotitular Social Democrats, having
abandoned any semblance of such political tradition resemble) have
established a dictatorship the European Union has been imposing
extremely unpopular policies that lacked popular mandate (for they were
not in their election programs), reaching its maximum development in
Greece.
Today, the wealth destroyed in that country, still poor in Europe is
greater than the wealth destroyed in France and Germany during the First
World War.
Pensions and public services of the welfare state are being decimated,
and collective agreements that defend the world of work are being
greatly weakened, all as a result of neoliberal policies imposed by the
European neoliberal establishment that controls the government of the
Union European and Eurozone, with the assistance of the International
Monetary Fund. It is another example of financial terrorism that is as damaging as military terrorism, and that is much more extensive.
The political objective of the European establishment is to destroy any rebellion against this financial d¡ctadura
What is happening today is the attempt to destroy Syriza, the first
government that represents the interests of the popular classes, he has
tried to stop such barbarity, rebelling against government austerity
policies, as it sent the Greek people.
As I have stated in previous articles, so the financial dictatorship is
no longer expel Greece from the euro, but Syriza oust the government.
And it has to do with the Greek political class, corrupt to the core,
which controls most of the media and persuasion of that country, as also
happens in Spain.
Greece has been the biggest victim of this terrorist system is being
implemented in the Eurozone, causing the greatest social disaster is
known in Western Europe since 1945. Hence the urgency and necessity of
helping the Greek democratic forces, coming to street in front of the EU
delegation in Spain, to show rejection of this terrorism.
Europe was the dream of the anti-fascist resistance during the years of
hiding now, a nightmare, as a result of so marked deterioration of
democracy and solidarity, the result of this financial terrorism that
dominates this continent today.
What's happening right now?
As expected, most of the means of mass communication in Spain, highly
supported by financial capital, they have claimed responsibility for
what is happening is nothing less than the victim of such terrorism. Faced with so many lies, it is important to note:
1. The enormous need and urgency to respond to such falsehood,
denouncing the media falsify reality, both what has been happening and
what has happened these days.
2. The European Central Bank (ECB), which has already shown its
hostility to SYRIZA government just two days after his election, has
threatened to destroy the Greek banking system by closing any transfer
their banks.
3. That the demands of the European Institutions (consisting, in
addition to what was called the Troika-the ECB, the European Commission
and the IMF, the Eurogroup), including debt repayment, are a frontal
attack the survival of Greece, it is impossible that such debt is paid
at the same time revive the Greek economy.
Such claims have reached outrageous levels, such as requiring that
there is a reduction of public pensions to mean a cut equivalent to 1%
of GDP, while the same institutions oppose the demand for Syriza to
raise taxes wealthier classes, also vetoed a tax on large yachts of such
classes.
4. The implementation of austerity policies have caused a real social
and economic disaster, while generating an increase rather than a
decrease in public debt, which have only benefited foreign banks, and
particularly the German and French, but also Spanish.
5. That when these banks were at risk of losing their huge profits from
the interest that Greece was forced to pay, and could not pay were the
eurozone governments that rescued them, under the false pretext of
trying to help Greece.
6. What have been the establishment of the European institutions, which
from day Syriza government showed enormous strength, which have ignored
the demands of this government, which were neither more nor less than
had been allowed the German state when its debt was choking him.
Under these conditions it became a rebate of 50% of the German public
debt and payment of the remaining debt to the growth of the German
economy was conditioned.
The institutions of the European establishment consistently opposed,
and even refused to consider this alternative to SYRIZA government had
indicated.
7. The ECB, in partnership with the corrupt ruling class in Greece,
which controls most of the media is trying these days, before the
referendum next weekend, there is a chaos in the Greek financial
situation, to mobilize opposition to the government Syriza in the
referendum, with the intention of getting what you always wanted, take a
Syriza government.
8. Syriza's defeat will be a defeat of the struggle against austerity in the eurozone.
Syriza had no alternative but to do what he has done, ask the opinion
of the Greek electorate, as Syriza was chosen to end austerity policies.
If the European institutions do not let him do what he promised is
another example of their democratic commitment and consistency that
Syriza considered necessary to ask the Greek people to decide whether to
accept the changes suggested by the European establishment or whether
the government disobeys such proposals .
9. That everything that is happening in Greece directly affects the masses of all peoples and nations of Spain.
Hence the Rajoy government has been a major ally in the Eurogroup,
German Finance Minister -the hawk Eurogrupo-, such as Spanish government
has been one to have carried out such austerity policies hardest,
posing as the model in the Eurozone.
The political tsunami occurred in this country in the last municipal
elections has frightened the neoliberal establishment that governs the
euro area, helping to increase their negotiating strength because they
want to, by all means, that Syriza fail.
So they try to scare increasingly disgusted Spanish population with
neoliberal policies promoted by the Spanish establishment (and here in
Catalonia, the Catalan establishment) and their means of information and
persuasion.
Fear is, once again, the strategy followed by the power structure at
the increasing number of citizens who want to take control of their
present and future. Hence the enormous fear that the public be aware that you can change the realities that oppress if organized for it. And this is what the European neoliberal establishment can not afford. So clear.
