Message from PAME Greece. Dear Immigrants On May 20 we all Strike, 17/05/2010 Ann

Dear immigrants,

On May 20, we all strike. All the workplaces must be closed. This strike should be even bigger than the strike on May 5.

The immigrants must give once again their mass presence to the strike and demonstrations with their own banners and slogans. Against the capital and the government that load us everyday with more problems. They load immigrants with poverty, unemployment, exploitation and terrorism, whereas they increase the capital’s profits.

The government is taking harsh measures for all of us, Greek people and immigrants.

We should not accept them. Our only choice is the organized struggle through the class-oriented trade unions, through the lines of PAME.

All the immigrants should be in the blocks of PAME. Together with the Greek workers who know how to struggle and express their solidarity, irrespective of the colour and country of the worker. Together with the workers who are against xenophobia and racism, against the forces which deliberately blame immigrants that they are responsible for unemployment and criminality.

On May 20 we dynamically participate in the strike. So that we will all have a job, wages that will meet our needs, medical healthcare, we will have our pensions before becoming old, we will all live freely without terrorism, without the threat of deportation or imprisonment.


All together in the strike at Omonoia Square, at 10 a.m.


THE WORKERS SHOULD NOT MAKE ANY SACRIFICE –

THE PLUTOCRACY MUST PAY THE CRISIS

21 Communist and Worker parties' Sign declaration

Communist parties' declaration

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) general Secretary Aleka Papariga on Monday presented a joint declaration signed by 21 communist and labor parties in European Union member-states, following a relevant meeting here.

In a press conference in Athens, Papariga stated that this is the first time that a joint declaration is signed by communist and labor parties ahead of European Parliament elections, adding that these parties expressed their common position as regards the character of the EU.

Papariga also described the withdrawal of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) from the European Left Party as very important development.

She underlined that the main points of the declaration highlight the EU capitalist role, clarify the parties' stance as regards the Maastricht Treaty, and refer to the socialization of production means and the peoples' right to decide on their own model of development. Papariga also stated that abstention from the European Parliament elections will "in essence operate in favor of the existing policy."

MSZMP President Gyula Thrmer speaking in the press conference stated that his party's withdrawal from the European Left Party was a major decision considering that it was one of its founders. "We want to fight against capitalism whereas they want to reconcile with capitalism," he said.

Carmelo Suarez, general secretary of the Communist Party of the People's of Spain, stated that the declaration signed is very important adding that his party's proposal is disengagement and withdrawal from the EU.