All of us
have recently seen a serious tension arising in the Aegean sea between Greece
and Turkey. This is a dangerous competition between their representative
bourgeois classes aiming in broader imperialistic goals for the Middle East and
Africa.
Erdogan's
Neo-Ottomanism comes in clashes with the strategic axis formed by the Greek
State , Israel , Cyprus and Egypt. Both bourgeois classes are unified in the
role that is held for the "nation" of workers on each side, that of an
expendable product.
Series of important
imperialistic interventions take place in the Eastern Mediterranean and
transform into civil wars, concluding to devastating whole states and creating
walking "rivers" of desperate refugees.
The Aegean sea
has been upgraded in the geostrategic schemes. Its basic role as the key route
of the imperialistic fleets, integrates with a gigantic energy planning
referring to the triangle engulfed by Caucasus, North Africa and
the Middle East. Even more makes the Aegean sea a killing zone for refugees,
intercepting and beefing up the "security" of fortress-europe.
This is the
place , where EU is piling up massive forces of military and police units,
sovereign and international, so it can erect a fierce "wall". This is anything
but the place and time NATO confirms its defense and security dogma developed
the past two decades.
From this point
of view, the recent incidents in the Aegean is just a sequel to the escalations
in Turkeys "domestic" affairs. This not only applies to the Kurdish issue but
also to the effort of the Erdogan regime to elevate Turkey to the status of
leading regional power.
On the other
hand the same incidents in Greece appear as an attempt to export the Greek
crisis as regional aggressiveness of the local capitalists.
The Greek ruling
class claims its piece from the loots, offering troops, military bases and
logistics for every campaign conducted in the region with the ultimate goal
being : "Reassuring the terms and means needed for the next round of
capitalistic growth". This is a two way battle, domestic and at the same time
regional.
These two plans
come to an inevitable confrontation due to their uppermost goals and means. They
both attempt to mold the appropriate coalitions in a harsh geopolitical and
social environment where local and regional uprisings transform into devastating
civil wars and finally mingle with the type of proxy wars conducted between
universal and regional imperialistic blocks and state-forces ( USA, EU, Russia -
Saudi Arabia, Israel , Iran )
This brutal race
obviously contains in its
rivalry all the greek-turkish disputes around the division of the Aegean (
borders, reef rights , EEZ etc) . These issues have fueled the conflict and been
the number one topic of secret diplomacy for years . Nobody oversees the fact
that it is of equal importance to determine clearly, the timing, the terms and
the nature of the compromise.
Greece and
Turkey cooperate in full harmony under the
NATO or Frontex command, waging the war against refugees and immigrants, in
every international military drill and at each imperialistic "peacekeeping"
operation. And surely the seek for a "mutually beneficial" agreement, an
agreement "among gentlemen" for their national disputes.
Be sure for this
, such agreements are signed with the blood and the corpses of both the peoples
of the "combatants". The peoples which will be called to execute the service of
the police force, the mercenary, become the cannon fodder for the ruling elites
interest. In other words, the strongest unity of the two states is their unity
against the real enemy, the public enemy, the people.
The single sided
nationalistic projection of the "Turkish aggression" by the mass media and the
SYRIZA-ANEL government (as if the Greece-Cyprus-Egypt-Israel Axis doesn't
project the exact same goals) aims to obscure the imperialistic context of the
Greek aggressiveness for the control of the Aegean Sea and the Southeast
Mediterranean
The quarrels
abroad, the military adventurism of both turkey and Greece in Southeast Europe
build up to
higher level of social warfare which is conducted in their domestic
regions.
The project of
the "threats to national security" or to the "rights of the nation" is nothing
else but the effort to integrate the assault against the local working classes
to the strategic plans of the ruling classes.
In Greece this
sums up to the Memorandums, the slaughter of the new pension system, the robbery
of the tax system reform, the brutality against refugees, the obliteration of
the workers' rights in the name of production regroupment. In Turkey the
equivalent sums up to cruel exploitation of local and foreign working force in
the industrial complex, the savage civil war, against both the Kurds and the
left. It's the only way to achieve broad social alignments needed to enforce
strict national discipline ( this means class truce ) either in the name of
fear or in the name of nationalism. But always under the banner of state
goals.
We know our
enemies : From Tsipras and Kammenos to Erdogan and Davutoglu , the civil parties
in total, the interests they represent. They all scream for national unity and
the silence of class conflict, while serving the terms of capitalistic profit
through Parliamentary Totalitarianism.
The
nationalistic ensemble appears on stage. It consists of the big fish reporters ,
the pro - memorandum parties and their clowns and promoters. All of them are
anxious not to give an inch of land while they privatize and sell out public
wealth devastating any remnants of welfare and infrastructure left. the "buyers"
are well known : the hot shots of the local entrepreneurial jet set, the same
that gained profits from the "Imia Crisis" , the Stock Market scandals and the
Arms deals in the Balkan and Middle East wars. In the meantime investigations
reveal the cruel numbers : The mass amount of the funds from the bailout
packages headed to the old debts (86.9 billion euro) interest payoffs (52.3
billion euro) and the salvation of domestic banks (37.3 billion euro) . What
remained from all this ? Just 9.7 billion euro (5%) to the national
budget.
For us it's
crystal clear. There is NO kind of national interest. There is nothing for us to
serve or sacrifice for that bows to the flag of any nation. We
won't fight for THEIR interests. We
won't enroll in their armies, we won't work for their war at any post.Our present and future is bounded only to the fate of an independent
international workers' movement. The common struggle of the working class
against the ruling class, the state oppression and their military aggression. We
only settle for the overthrow of both the government of Greece and Turkey. In
the age of Totalitarian Capitalism we can already see the rise of an age of
riots. This controversial era gives birth to a new hope : The hope of social
struggle in Kobane and France, in the uprisings of the underdogs from the Greek
December 2008 to the Arab Spring till the workers' struggles spanning from the
regional to the metropolitan.
Now is the time
, it is more necessary than ever before. We must become the everlasting threat
to overthrow this system. A time for an anti-war movement to appear with one and
ultimate goal, emerging from the finest moments of workers' class struggle :
Inverting the imperialistic war to open class warfare.
We just have to
do the self-evident. That which several struggling people have done before us.
They refused to go to war against their fellow brother workers. They demanded
their lives back, back from the ever stealing governments of the bourgeoisies
and the oppressors. Our guns are aiming the other way round. Against EU, NATO
and against the capitalism as a whole. We well rest only when this system
becomes just a distant memory in the age of social liberation.
Anti-War
Internationalist Movement
(Antipolemiki Diethnistiki Kinissi)
(Antipolemiki Diethnistiki Kinissi)
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