The Fight in Greece To Vote ‘No’ to the Empire Is On
In the face of a concerted mobilization by the European oligarchy to overthrow Greece’s government, Athens is mobilizing for the “No” votes. Minister for Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Panagiotis Lafazanis, said that the July 5 referendum is an “experiment” to put pressure on Greece’s creditors. Lafazanis said in a radio interview July 2:
“We could do something else, co-sign a deal that would be a death sentence for Greece. What use would it be? We are at this point because all the recipes applied were wrong. If we applied a deal like the one the creditors proposed, things would be even worse. We would have fewer expenditures and bigger taxes,”
Responding to an MP with the government’s minority partner, the Independent Greeks, who declared that he would vote “Yes,” the party’s leader, Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, announced the member’s expulsion, saying, “We are at war and we do not do discounts. Whoever cannot endure, leaves.”
The famous film director Costas Gavras, in an interview with the ANA-MPA, came out in full, unqualified support for Prime Minister Tsipras: “Alexis Tsipras is right to hold a referendum, it is necessary. I think, in any case, that the work that Tsipras has done up to today is absolutely necessary, and I hope that things go in accordance with his hopes.”
According to Gavras, the main problem that Tsipras will face, will be to make Greece a proper state. “We Greeks are a nation but there is no state. If we do not become a state, I don’t know where we’re going. We will be a colony of the banks.”
“Alexis Tsipras is an important leader. I always think of this young person [tsipras], aged 40 years old, who arrives in Brussels, in this terrible place with all those people that have immense experience, political and economic. I am amazed that he was able to defend himself and get where he got. We don’t get such leaders often in Greece, and I think I have not seen the like in the last 70 years.”Â
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