{"id":344502,"date":"2018-01-19T09:11:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T08:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-working-class-moves-against-greeces-syriza-government\/"},"modified":"2018-01-19T09:11:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T08:11:14","slug":"the-working-class-moves-against-greeces-syriza-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-working-class-moves-against-greeces-syriza-government\/","title":{"rendered":"The working class moves against Greece\u2019s Syriza government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>The working class moves against Greece\u2019s Syriza government<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Alex Lantier<br \/>\n    <br \/>19 January 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>This week, tens of thousands of workers in key industries in Greece took strike action against European Union (EU) austerity measures imposed by the Syriza (Coalition of the Radical Left) government. This action took place amid a rising wave of strikes and mass protests across Europe and the Middle East\u2014with clashes in Iran and Tunisia, and strikes in Germany and Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The international resurgence of the class struggle at the beginning of 2018, and in particular the struggle in Greece, poses critical questions of political perspective and strategy. An unmistakable indication of its revolutionary implications is the fact that masses of workers are coming into conflict with a pseudo-left party that has passed for the \u201cradical left\u201d or the \u201cfar left\u201d of the political establishment. The working class is emerging as the main force defending basic social and democratic rights in political struggle against Syriza.<\/p>\n<p>The measures Syriza is imposing are proof that it and its sister parties are not \u201cleft,\u201d but right-wing parties, consciously hostile to the workers. The EU \u201cmulti-bill\u201d includes prohibitions on strikes; cutting workers\u2019 bonuses paid for heavy or dangerous work; drastic cuts or the elimination of family benefits for nearly 70,000 families; measures to facilitate foreclosures; a wave of new school closures; the deregulation of energy and transport companies, pharmacies, bakeries, and other firms; and the building of casinos.<\/p>\n<p>Workers protested in particular Syriza\u2019s attack on the right to strike, inscribed in the Greek constitution. One worker bitterly noted, \u201cBlood was shed by generations that came before us to have the right to strike. Now a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/01\/19\/gree-j19.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The working class moves against Greece\u2019s Syriza government By Alex Lantier 19 January 2018 This week, tens of thousands of workers in key industries in Greece took strike action against European Union (EU) austerity measures imposed by the Syriza (Coalition of the Radical Left) government. This action took place amid a rising wave of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344502","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\/344502","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\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}