by system
failure
As the fight
between the Greek government and the lenders culminates,
controversial announcements concerning deadlines are more frequent
than ever. In this peculiar psychological war, the lenders try to
increase the pressure on the Greek side setting continuously various
dates as deadlines for the negotiations. Phrases like "the time
for Greece ends" are so frequent that the public opinion in
Greece and the people who have already enough troubles are not paying
attention anymore. From this perspective, the psychological war is
fading and losing its power.
However,
there is indeed one crucial date, which is tomorrow, 11th of June.
Two years ago on this date, Samaras administration proceeded in an
unprecedented action by closing
public broadcaster in one day.
2656 employees were fired in one day, while the then Samaras
administration claimed that this was an action to clean public
broadcaster from corruption. Ironically his party and the coalition
Socialist partner, PASOK, were the two parties that governed Greece
for nearly four decades and corrupted every branch of Greece's public
institutions.
Of course
this was an action of high symbolism. The neoliberal dictatorship
used Greece to enforce unprecedented
conditions towards the new Feudalism.
Samaras created NERIT, the supposed new public broadcaster which
became clearly a mouthpiece of the neoliberal government positions,
fully aligned with the lenders' plans.
Now, the new
government has to keep its promise to rehire the employees in order
to restore the democratic legality which was canceled through the
June 11 of 2013 coup. However, the lenders send signals that they
will not tolerate such actions as rehiring employees in public
institutions, even if the layoffs have been characterized as
unconstitutional, according to the supreme court of Greece.
Tsipras
receives a lot of pressure from the interior too. Yesterday, 22
SYRIZA MPs sent a letter to the Greek PM through which they ask a
voting procedure in the Greek parliament for restoring minimum wage
and cancelling all the orders concerning further cuts in pensions,
according to the memorandum agreement with the lenders.
Recently,
the sign of NERIT in the public broadcaster headquarters has been
replaced by the old one, ERT. Tomorrow, the Greek government will be
forced to reveal whether is determined to restore democracy in
Greece, or, retreat to the absurd demands of the neoliberal
dictatorship who wants to finish the experiment in Greece by any
means, at any cost.
Tomorrow,
the reactions from both sides in the battle of Greece will show
whether eurocrats will risk a Grexit and how determined is Tsipras
administration to go that far.
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