{"id":309381,"date":"2017-05-23T09:51:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T08:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-european-left-and-the-greek-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2017-05-23T09:51:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T08:51:39","slug":"the-european-left-and-the-greek-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-european-left-and-the-greek-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Left and the Greek Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>The day Greek workers and employees went on general strike, protesting against a new barrage of so-called \u201creforms\u201d imposed by the \u201ccreditors\u201d in the context of a program that is destroying Greeks and their country,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guengl.eu\/news\/article\/category\/common-statement-on-the-22-may-eurogroup-and-the-greek-debt\">\u00a0a statement on Greece<\/a>\u00a0was issued by the Presidents of the Social Democratic, Green and the \u201cRadical Leftist\u201d Groups in the European Parliament\u00a0Gianni Pitella, Ska Keller\u00a0and\u00a0Gabi Zimmer.<\/p>\n<p>We still hope the Eurodeputies of those three groups will repudiate this unbelievable and\u00a0shameful statement. For the time being they have not done so. (1)\u00a0Those three \u201cLeftist\u201d leaders have not found, in their statement, one word of solidarity for the families of tens of thousands of Greeks who have been driven to end lives they could not tolerate any more, as a result of the \u201creforms\u201d imposed on Greece by the German and other European governments, the EU and the IMF.<\/p>\n<p>They did not find a word of solidarity for the 1.5 million Greeks living in conditions of extreme poverty as a result of the policy endorsed and applied by Frau Merkel, M. Juncker and Mme. Lagarde.<\/p>\n<p>They did not find a word of solidarity for pensioners who now see their pensions\u00a0 being cut by another 30% in the 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0successive pension reduction in seven years, imposed by the creditors and voted by the Greek Parliament in a context of threat and blackmail. On the contrary, they supported the legislation cutting these pensions.<\/p>\n<p>They did not find a word of sympathy for poor Greek cancer&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/05\/23\/the-european-left-and-the-greek-tragedy\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day Greek workers and employees went on general strike, protesting against a new barrage of so-called \u201creforms\u201d imposed by the \u201ccreditors\u201d in the context of a program that is destroying Greeks and their country,\u00a0a statement on Greece\u00a0was issued by the Presidents of the Social Democratic, Green and the \u201cRadical Leftist\u201d Groups in the European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-309381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}