Defend Savas Michael-Matsas! Drop all charges!
For international solidarity with workers, revolutionary militants and immigrants targeted by the fascists and the Greek state!
As Greece still reels from the capitalist
crisis we see increasing racist attacks against immigrants and the left
by the fascists and the state.[i]
The fascist Golden Dawn has brought bogus legal charges enforced by the
Greek state against Greek Jewish Trotskyist Savas Michael-Matsas, for
“defamation”. The “justification” for this was because the Workers’
Revolutionary Party (EEK) of Greece “issued a leaflet calling for
participation in an antifascist demonstration protesting against a
murderous attack by the Nazis against the immigrant communities in
Athens that was made possible through the covert assistance of the local
police in Greece” (see press release below).
The CWG demands that all charges be dropped against Savas
Michael-Matsas! The international working class and left needs to come
to the defense of all victims of fascist and state repression through
labor actions!
On September 3rd Michael-Matsas will
be called before the bosses courts to answer these preposterous
charges. To defend Michael-Matsas workers should bring their organized
power to bare against the Greek state and its accommodation of the
fascist monsters.
The rise of the fascists is an ominous is
a mortal threat and it is crucial that the working class and the left
organize to smash the fascists. It is likely that either the working
class will crush the fascists as part of the fight to resolve the Greek
crisis by overthrowing capitalism through a workers’ government, or the
fascists will crush the organized labor movement, the leftist parties
and organizations and unleash murderous genocidal terror against the
immigrant community. All workers’, immigrant and leftist organizations
need to build united fronts, “march separately, strike together”, for
actions to stop these racist attacks. Worker/immigrant self-defense
guards need to be organized to drive the fascists from the streets and
the immigrant neighborhoods. These workers defense guards should be
organized in every factory, workplace and neighborhood, along with
workers committees to organize against the crisis.
It is astonishing that the Messrs.
bourgeois democrats of post war Greece do not recognize the contempt
they are held in by the Golden Dawn it is likewise unfathomable how they
fail to realize that the Golden Dawn would put their own liberal heads
on the chopping block even before they finish dealing with the left and
those they victimize for being non-Greek. Golden Dawn would be worse
than the Reles regime and much more akin to the Nazi occupiers of
1941-1945. The workers must know that Golden Dawn intends to place the
entire burden and exact the entire cost of the capitalist crisis from
workers lives. To do this they will apply the courts today and terror
tomorrow and in power they will have work camps and death camps to snuff
out all resistance. It is for this reason that we treat civil
libertarianism on the fascist question as a mortal error. The one thing
the international working class cannot tolerate is a regime of
intolerance. Let liberals like Noam Chomsky
defend the fascists right to free speech.
We say smash fascism in the
egg! The light-minded Euro-bourgeoisie believes it can safely hold the
Golden Dawn as a cudgel over the heads of the trade unionists and the
left thus you can expect no move against Golden Dawn from the state
which is interpenetrated with fascists up and down the police ranks.
Therefore class independent armed workers action to smash fascism is
urgently required to defend any and all democratic rights. The
bourgeoisie is telling the Troika that it needs a third bailout and
wants to renegotiate terms on the outstanding balances of the previous
two loans. It feels it has stabilized the situation enough to take
this position because the masses are demobilized. It is in this
situation that the state brings this monstrous anti-semetic case
against Savas Michael-Matsas.
All workers must defend Savas Michael-Matas. Drop all charges now!
CWG(USA) August 27, 2013Savas Michael-Matsas has appealed for solidarity in a statement:
“As you know, the Nazi Golden Dawn in Greece has started a legal action against the EEK and myself, its general secretary.
I am accused of “defamation”, “instigation of violence” and “disruption of the civil peace”.
At the same time, the Nazis have intensified their non-stop, vicious, anti-Semitic and anti-communist campaign accusing me of being “the instrument of a world Jewish conspiracy to foment civil war, so as to impose a Judeo-Bolshevik regime in Greece”.
The Greek state has endorsed this action by Golden Dawn by bringing charges against myself, together with the former dean of the National Technical University of Athens, Mr Constantine Moutzouris (accused of permitting the operation of the alternative website, Athens Indymedia, from within the university).
We want to ask you to kindly send messages of solidarity, signatures, motions, etc, to eek@eek.gr, in time to be presented both to the press and to the court.”[ii]
CWG also posts below an English translation of a press release that was posted at Permanent Revolution blog:
http://forum.permanent-revolution.org/2013/08/defend-savas-michael-against-golden.html
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