We Are Not Merkel’s Colony
Big demonstration in Athens last night
We Are Not Merkel’s Colony
Germany is doing all it can to kill the Syriza revolution in Greece, barely two weeks old.
It is not for Germany or the EU to dictate to Greece. A point people across Europe need to make very clear, we are all Greeks now.
Austerity does not work. It was used as an excuse to loot Greece.
- Syriza: Hope has won
- Syriza: Greek Revolution Against Corruption
- Greece: The end of austerity
- Austerity is the crisis not the solution
- Austerity is not working
Tags: democracy, EU, euro, Grecia2015, Greece, Syriza, We Are Not Merkel's Colony
Keithpp's Blog 
February 7, 2015 at 1:38 pm |
Who governs a country? Is it the people who live in it, or a government chosen by them, or is it an international elite of financial interests and the institutions which serve them?
The system is broke, it is broke beyond reform.
We need radical reform, we need to kick out the corrupt political elites, the greedy bankers, the tax evading oligarchs.
We need to devolve power to the grass roots, citizens running their won affairs, Open Coops, Open Commons, participatory democracy.
Any such change here will require the co-operation and creative dynamism of a wide range of voices, groups and individuals. What Syriza in Greece, the Radical Independence Campaign in Scotland and Podemos in Spain all have in common is this range of constituent elements. They include radical leftists, trade unionists, social democratic, greens, liberals, NGOs, community groups, and many who have come into politics for the first time or very recently (even, in some cases, democratic conservatives).
The Change: How? conference (8 February 2015) in London will be unprecedented in bringing together in this country just such a range of voices committed to real systemic change from across the political and cultural spectrum. Whether or not it leads to anything will be up to us, but we already know from Greece, that this is what he politics of hope looks like.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/professor-jeremy-gilbert/greece-elections_b_6580254.html