O que se passa na Grécia

«Centenas de milhares de gregos "indignados" foram para as ruas contra seus perseguidores neoliberais.

Duas semanas depois de ter começado o movimento dos "indignados" - Aganaktismeni, em grego - as pessoas ocuparam as principais praças em todas as cidades que estão transbordando com multidões protestando, fazendo o governo de Papandreou e seus partidários locais e internacionais tremer. Já virou mais do que apenas um movimento de protesto ou mesmo uma mobilização contra medidas de austeridade. Ele se transformou em uma verdadeira revolta popular que está varrendo o país (estima-se que em uma noite passaram por Syntagma em Atenas mais de 250,000 pessoas). Uma revolta que se recusa a pagar, pela "crise deles" ou a "dívida deles".

Neste momento uma pergunta vem a mente: como pode um movimento dessas porporções que está abalando o governo grego (em que a UE tem um interesse muito especial) não ser mencionado nos veículos de mídias do Ocidente? Estamos vendo certamente uma nova forma de censura. Uma censura política bem organizada motivada pelo medo do movimento grego se propagar para o resto da Europa!»

Tradução em português (apenas parcial): http://www.cadtm.org/Intenso-Levante-Popular-na-Grecia
Texto de Yorgos Mitralias, em 8 de Junho, completo aqui: http://www.cadtm.org/Revolte-populaire-de-masse-en
Versão em inglês: http://www.cadtm.org/Massive-popular-uprising-in-Greece :

«It is surely not by chance if for the past two weeks demonstrators have shouted such phrases as ‘We owe nothing, we sell nothing, we pay nothing’, ‘We do not sell or sell ourselves’, ‘Let them all go, Memorandum, Troika, government and debt’ or ‘We’ll stay until they go’. Such catchwords do unite all demonstrators as indeed all that is related to their refusal to pay for the public debt. This is why the campaign for an audit Commission of the public debt is a great success throughout the country. Its stall in the middle of Syntagma square is constantly besieged by a crowd of people eager to sign the call or to offer their services as voluntary helpers…

While they were first completely disorganized the Syntagma Aganaktismeni have gradually developed an organization that culminates in the popular Assembly held every night at 9 and drawing several hundreds speakers in front of an attentive audience of thousands. Debates are often of really great quality (for instance on the public debt), actually much better than anything that can be seen on the major television channels. This in spite of the surrounding noise (we stand in the middle of a city with 4 million inhabitants), dozens of thousands of people constantly moving, and particularly the very diverse composition of those huge audiences in the midst of a permanent encampment that looks at times like some Tower of Babel.

All the qualities of direct democracy as experimented day after day on Syntagma should not blind us to its weaknesses, its ambiguities or indeed its defects as its initial allergy to anything that might be reminiscent of a political party or a trade union or an established collectivity. While it has to be acknowledged that such rejection is a dominant feature among the Aganaktismeni, who tend to reject the political world as a whole, we should note the dramatic development of the Popular Assembly, both in Athens and in Thessaloniki, that shifted from a rejection of trade unions to the invitation that they should come and demonstrate with them on Syntagma.»