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The Oct. 15 demonstrations and forums called by the United “In truth,” Gauvreau said, “NATO is the police force of the National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) to mark the 10th anniver­ 1% abroad.” She concluded by urging protesters to consider sary of the occupation of Afghanistan wonderfully coincided the meaning of Obama’s decision to invite all the generals with an internationally called Global Day of Action against and planners of NATO to meet at the same time as the finan­ austerity and were able, in many cities, to link up with the cial ministers and heads of the rich G8 countries in Chicago Occupy Movement. In New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadel­ from May 15-22, 2012. “Is there any doubt, that indeed, Wall phia, Minneapolis, and San Diego the demonstrations were the largest in many years, swelling to the thousands as youth There is clearly a growing understanding of the relationship from the encampments and youth inspired by the encamp­ between the attacks on the economic wellbeing of the 99% and the wars waged by the U.S. and NATO abroad. On Oct. 26, UNAC organizers in each city explained to new activists the the Occupy Chicago Movement and the Coalition Against the profound connection between the drive for economic auster­ NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda (CANG8) marched together, ity and the U.S. wars abroad. “The U.S.-NATO war on Libya,” 150 strong, to the offices of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Chris Gauvreau said at the Oct. 15 march in Hartford, Conn., to demand an end to the mass arrests of the occupiers and “was really a war to enforce the rules laid down by the IMF permits for the planned marches protesting the NATO/G8 and the World Bank and Wall Street on the peoples of North Africa. In Egypt and Tunisia the masses rose up to protest the Northern California organizers also introduced those in­ austerity measures forced on their economies by the finan­ spired by the occupations to importance of the NATO/G8 protests by organizing a whirlwind eight-city tour of Jess While the United States, France, and other rich nations did Sundin, Steve Downs, and UNAC leader Jeff Mackler. Sundin is not feel that they could directly intervene with planes and one of the victims of the FBI/grand-jury witch hunt targeting bombs to keep those revolutionary movements in check, the Midwest antiwar and solidarity movement, and Downs is Gauvreau asserted, they saw an opening to put special ops the founder of the Muslim civil liberties group called Project forces on the ground right between those countries, in Libya.

By ANTARSYA ANTARSYA is a coalition of anti-capital­ ist groups in Greece, including supporters of the Fourth International. T its. It’s not enough that the work­ he government has crossed all lim­ ers, the unemployed, the young peo­ ple, pensioners and professionals are plunged into misery—Finance Minister Venizelos went so far as to announce in Parliament that we should also be happy to be “under control!” The PASOK government and the interests of capital that it represents, in absolute harmony with the Troika, felt extremely positive shortly before announcing their slaugh­ ter package! ments joined in large numbers. cial institutions of the U.S. and Europe.”

The humiliation is almost perfect. At the same moment as their policy be­ comes bankrupt, and as working fami­ lies are driven into bankruptcy, the holy alliance of government, the EU, and the IMF want to make us believe that there is no other way to save the country from bankruptcy. In reality they are the ones who lead us into bankruptcy under the control, and according to the terms of, the banks and multinational companies, the EU, and the Greek industrialists.

There is another path, the path of the anti-capitalist break with the ruling or­ der, in order to impose the interests of working people: by stopping the pay­ ments to the bankers and the cancella­ tion of debt, by withdrawing from the euro zone and leaving the EU, by the nationalization of banks, state-owned enterprises and enterprises of strategic Street is War Street?,” she concluded. summit.

SALAM. — VANESSA MORISOT importance under workers’ control and without compensation, through a radi­ cal redistribution of wealth, by increas­ ing wages, pensions and public spend­ ing in order to cover social needs and to create jobs by an adequate capital tax and the redistribution of profits through the cancellation of bank debts for those without vast fortunes, and for the unem­ ployed.

We wont pay your poll taxes! We shall bring about your downfall.

The unified mass political movement will open the way, an uprising of all workers and of the entire population is needed here and now! With unlimited strikes and a nationwide general strike, with occupations as they have already begun in the ministries, with militant demonstrations, and with the demo­ cratic coordination of the branches that started fighting and of the rank-and-file basic trade union units, things can move beyond the bureaucratic leaderships of GSEE (private sector) and ADEDY (pub­ lic service). Through the united struggle of student occupations and unlimited strikes we can win!

It is time for a popular uprising that will lead to the overthrow of the govern­ ment of shame, that will unshackle the rule of EU, IMF and capital, and that will seal the defeat of the black bloc of PA­ SOK, ND, and LAOS. All the forces of the Left and the movement involved in the struggles must contribute through their joint action to an unprecedented revolu­ tionary movement.

ANTARSYA fights for the abolition of capitalist barbarism as a whole and is involved with all its forces in the current conflict. n

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