1. Austerity now dominates the economic policies of the advanced capitalist world. In response to a global crisis precipitated by the speculative drive of the big banks, the Western ruling classes have chosen to shift the cost onto the backs of working people and the poor. Slashing public expenditure has trapped the world in slow growth. But it has also provided an opportunity to drive through more of the neoliberal ‘reforms’ that allowed the financial markets to escape control in the first place.

2. It is the unhappy fate of the Greece to be the main testing ground for these policies. The eurozone has just agreed a second ‘rescue’ package for Greece. This is a rescue of the mainly French and German banks that lent Greece the money that it now owes. This is made visible by the creation of an escrow account into which the new loans will be paid ...

Erklæring om solidaritet med grækerne

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Følgende erklæring om solidaritet med almindelige mennesker i Grækenland blev udsendt den 29. februar 2012.

1. Nedskæringer dominerer nu de økonomiske politikker i den udviklede kapitalistiske verden. Som svar på en global krise, der blev fremskyndet af de store bankers spekulation, har de vestlige herskende klasser valgt at flytte omkostningerne over på ryggen af arbejdende mennesker og de fattige. Beskæringen af de offentlige udgifter har fanget verden i en fælde med langsom vækst. Men det har også givet mulighed for at presse flere af de nyliberale ’reformer’ igennem, der i det hele taget har gjort det muligt for de finansielle markeder at slippe for kontrol.

2. Det er Grækenlands ulykkelige skæbne at være det vigtigste forsøgsområde for disse politikker. Euro-zonen har netop vedtaget den anden ”redningspakke” til Grækenland. Dette er en redning af de hovedsageligt franske og tyske banker, der lånte Grækenland de penge, landet nu skylder. Dette ...

Sameh Naguib has now been released from custody.

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Centre for Socialist Studies
10 February 2012

A group of armed civilians in cooperation with the military police attacked a group of Revolutionary Socialists a short while ago. Sameh Naguib, labor lawyer Haitham Mohammedein, and human rights lawyer Ahmed Mamdouh were attacked while participating in a march in Alexandria, after which Naguib was turned over to the headquarters of the military governor on the military base at Ras al Tin.

Following word of the news, Kamal Khalil, Revolutionary Socialist and founder of the Democratic Workers and Farmers Party, chanted in the march headed to the Ministry of Defense in eastern Cairo, "Release him, open up, release him, Sameh is one of us and we will not leave him."

The attack on the Revolutionary Socialists comes after an intense defamation campaign undertaken by the military council in conjunction with the Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. The most recent offensive ...